After yet another Colorado school shooting, Nicole Hockley of Sandy Hook Promise’s message carries both grief and urgency. Her youngest son was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre more than a decade ago. Within weeks, she co-founded non-profit Sandy Hook Promise with one mission: to stop other families from enduring what she lives with every day.
“This is exhausting,” Hockley said in an interview with CBS Colorado following the Evergreen High School shooting. “I think one of the most exhausting things about this is that these acts are preventable. We have the solutions that we know work, and sometimes we just don’t have the will to make them happen.”
Since its founding, Sandy Hook Promise has trained millions of students and educators nationwide to recognize warning signs of violence. Hockley says those efforts have prevented more than 1,000 youth suicides and stopped at least 18 planned school shootings…