Safe2Say session postponed

The Tamaqua Area School District’s community training session on the Safe2Say program, scheduled for this evening, has been postponed due to the weather. The training will be rescheduled for a later date.

The district will hold a community training session on Pennsylvania’s new Safe2Say app. Pennsylvania is the first state in the nation to implement the hotline program, which was devised by Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit formed following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. The goal was to search for ways to prevent such violence.

The program includes a mobile app, website and hotline which can be used to make anonymous reports of students and others showing signs they have the potential to carry out school violence.