The Safe Zone Solution
Our mission is to support school crisis prevention and promote the highest standard of safety for all students and teachers by creating classroom safe zones in every school.
Maximum level bullet-resistant polycarbonate glazing is placed on all exterior entryway points vestibule door windows denying forced entry and allowing faculty inside to coordinate safety.
A Level 5 bullet resistant door specially designed for schools is placed on every classroom and faculty office door creating “a Safe Zone”
Modern entryway firearms detection systems implemented to alert mobile staff and personnel when a firearm is brought onto the campus, without alerting students or the perpetrator.
WHAT IS THE SAFE ZONE SOLUTION?
In October of 2023 Alex founded The Safe Zone Solution, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization. The vision animating SZS is the conviction that the way to stop the epidemic of school shootings is to have shootings legally categorized as Emergency Safety Hazards, in the same way that fire and earthquake is, universally mandating the targeted relevant safety features in the building codes.
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The Safe Zone Solution has arrived at a 3-legged approach:
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Our National Nightmare
Over the past 5 decades our country has experienced over 2300 school shootings,
emotionally scarring an entire generation of school children. These shootings have led to the death and injury of over 2,000 children. Our entire nation is deeply traumatized by this plague, as we watch helplessly and—until now, hopelessly—as our children suffer the unimaginable. We must not become inured to this. We must somehow respond in a meaningful way to put an end to this terrible epidemic.
Genesis of a Solution
One evening in 2023, Safe Zone Solution founder Alex Sol was shaken to the core by the appearance on the evening news of Mia Cerrillo, a 10-year old survivor of a mass school shooting. Mia recounted how she survived the slaughter of her classmates by
covering herself in the blood of her best friend and playing dead. Alex was galvanized by this story, along with all the other accounts of the school shootings that have swept our country. A father of two school-age daughters, Alex was determined to do something about our national scourge.
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What can one father accomplish that will make a difference?