Safe Healthy Accessible Resilient Equitable (SHARE) Schools
2026 SHARE summit
The SHARE Initiative officially launched with a two-day summit that brought together researchers, educators, school social workers and policymakers from across the country to reimagine what school safety truly means. Hosted by Arizona State University’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, the event centered on aligning research, policy and community voice around Safe, Healthy, Accessible, Resilient and Equitable schools.
Participants explored how school safety extends beyond physical security to include belonging, dignity, mental well-being and justice. Through collaborative dialogue, attendees began shaping a shared framework grounded in evidence-based practices and community-driven insights — with one clear takeaway: doing nothing is not an option.
The summit marked the beginning of an ongoing effort to co-create research-informed tools and partnerships that help schools build environments where students can truly learn and thrive.
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SHARE summit participants
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Senior Program Director, Science and Technology Policy and Law at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
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Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation and an affiliate faculty in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University
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University Professor and the Senior Associate Dean for Research at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development
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Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Program of the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and its National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina
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Faculty Member at the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center within the University of Washington School of Medicine
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Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health
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Executive Director of the Center for Whole Child Education at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University
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Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan
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Director of the Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) at the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC)
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Associate Professor in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology at American University in Washington, D.C.
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School Safety Program Training Director with the AZ Department of Education
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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of Social Policy and Evaluation at the Educational Testing Service (ETS)
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Director and Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
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Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Deputy Director of the Harmony Institute
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Assistant Professor in the Division for Advancing Education Policy, Practice, and Leadership at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton College of Teaching and Learning Innovation
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Associate Professor in Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Robert Innes professor of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, at Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Research Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Family and Social Dynamics at Arizona State University
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Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Helios Education Foundation
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Research Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Foundation Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Arizona State University
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Health and Safety Implementation Consultant for the Colorado Department of Education
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Associate Teaching Professor, The Sanford School, Arizona State University
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Professor in the Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University
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Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
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Senior research scientist II in the education research area at Child Trends
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Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) at Arizona State University
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Director of Research for School-Based Bullying Prevention and Social-Emotional Learning within the Center for Violence Prevention at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
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