Giving Compass Take:

·  Carolyn Phencie, writing for The 74, discusses student activists' call for gun control and mental health programs in schools.

· What needs to be done to make schools safer?  What can be done to provide mental health support in schools?

· Learn more about school safety.

Eight months of student activism around gun violence swelled to a new peak this weekend, when about 100 students came together in the nation’s capital to draft and ratify a Students’ Bill of Rights for School Safety calling for better mental health care in schools and a slate of new gun control laws.

“When you experience gun violence, there’s a certain obligation within you, I think, to do something,” Jack McLeod, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and one of the student leaders of the conference, said Saturday morning. The conference stretched over three days, including a day of education sessions and smaller working groups at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C.

Read the full article about gun control and mental health programs in schools by Carolyn Phenicie at The 74.