A collaborative effort involving Michigan public schools, the state, and Michigan State University may well be saving lives and reducing violence in schools.

MSU’s Prevent 2 Protect program Director Alyse Folino Ley told The Detroit News that in its first year, specialists were able to intervene and stop two planned school attacks — a case of abuse where the victimized student had access to firearms and a possible suicide.

The News reported that a nonparticipating Michigan school district was recently the site of a student writing up a kill list, but another student reported the incident, and intervention prevented the threat from being played out.

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