Veteran–Founded · Nonprofit · Free Services
Free, expert‑led safety plans for schools and communities that refuse to wait.
Northern Star is a veteran‑founded 501(c)(3) coalition of educators, criminologists, mental health clinicians, retired law enforcement, and school safety engineers. We provide free school safety audits, comprehensive safety plans, and evidence‑based training to underserved schools and communities across [STATE / REGION].
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
- Veteran Founded
- No Cost to Schools
- Evidence‑Based
Completed
Our Why
“On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas. We learned about the failures, the warnings that were missed, the minutes that cost lives. Three veterans — two with law enforcement careers — looked at each other and said: we have to do something.”
That day, Northern Star was born. Not as a program, or a plan, or a policy document — but as a demand. A demand that no other community face what Uvalde faced because no one was watching, no one was trained, and no one had built the systems that could have interrupted a pattern that research tells us is almost never random.
We are educators, criminologists, clinicians, engineers, veterans, and law enforcement officers who refused to wait for someone else to act.
This is our “Do Something.” What’s yours?
Find Your Way In
Four roles. One mission.
In Their Words
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The statistics are shocking.
The reality is preventable.
On May 24, 2022, a mother in Uvalde ran through police lines to save her children — and screamed into a camera:
“DO SOMETHING”
Northern Star was born that day.
Built by veterans, educators, criminologists, and mental health professionals, we don’t just respond to school violence — we work to stop it before it starts. School safety isn’t a metal detector problem. It’s a community problem — and it demands a community‑based solution.
On K–12 School Grounds In 2024
The second‑highest number ever recorded. Any shooting is one too many.
K–12 School Shooting Database, Campus Safety Magazine (2025)
Experienced Sexual Violence In The Past Year
Overall, 11% of all high school students were forced to do sexual things when they did not want to. Rates were stable or worsening from 2021 to 2023.
CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (2021); CDC YRBS Data Summary & Trends Report: 2013–2023 (2024)
Reported Forcible Sex Offenses On School Campuses Nearly Tripled
From 1.7 to 8.0 per 10,000 students between 2009 and 2019.
NCES Indicators of School Crime and Safety (2022)
Reported Being Bullied At School
Rising to 26% among middle schoolers. Cyberbullying hit 26.5% in the past 30 days — up from 16.7% in 2016.
NCES / Bureau of Justice Statistics (2024); Patchin & Hinduja, Cyberbullying Research Center (2024)
Exhibited Suicidality Before Acting
Over 80% showed a detectable crisis beforehand. This is not random. This is a pattern we can interrupt.
Peterson & Densley, NIJ‑funded research, The Violence Project (2021)
Communicated Their Crisis To Someone Before Acting
In nearly every case, there was an opportunity to intervene. The window exists. We need people trained to see it.
Peterson & Densley, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2024)
What We Offer
Our Programs
Free Comprehensive School Safety / Security Assessments
Learn MoreFree Community‑Based School Safety Action Plan Development and Implementation
Learn MoreFree Subject Matter Expert Speakers and Training Sessions for Students, Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Learn MoreThe Student Ambassador Program
Learn MoreCongregation / Church Emergency Planning And Security Team Training
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