WASHINGTON, DC (August 26, 2024)—ZeroNow, an alliance of stakeholders dedicated to making schools safer, announced today that The Center for Applied Technologies for School Security (CATS2) has joined its ranks as a Nonprofit Partner.
The CATS2 Foundation was founded in 2022 to deter, mitigate, and minimize mass school violence through efficient and appropriate technologies. The CATS2 Foundation is currently fostering OWL for Schools, an ongoing program for developing and providing technologies to help K-12 schools protect against and respond to active attack emergencies.
“We are working hard to increase access to security solutions for schools nationwide,” said Dr. Lisa Dolev, Founder and Director of CATS2. “Like ZeroNow, CATS2 is dedicated to collaborating across industries, agencies, and geographies to bring together the best innovators and put in action the best solutions.”.
Dr. Dolev is an accomplished entrepreneur, inventor, and thought leader with over 35 years in leadership positions creating cutting-edge security and defense technologies with social impact.
“Having CATS2 on the team, sharing ideas and experience, adds to our knowledge base and brings new, creative minds to the ZeroNow alliance,” said ZeroNow CEO and Co-Founder Ara Bagdasarian. “Our diverse group of educators, law enforcement, school security officers, students and tech companies will benefit from CAT2’s innovative technology solutions. ZeroNow provides a forum for the most dedicated and visionary partners in the school safety space to work together to bring violence in schools to zero.”
ZeroNow was founded by technology partners Additional, Axis Communications, Axon, Omnilert and Status Solutions, along with campus safety nonprofit partners the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), NASPA (the Association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education), Campus Safety Magazine and VTV Family Outreach Foundation.
About ZeroNow
ZeroNow is the safety community’s movement to end harmful events in our schools. As a member-based nonprofit, ZeroNow facilitates collaboration between industry, associations, and education partners to foster new solutions to keep our campuses safe and secure. In 2024, ZeroNow launched The National Council of School Safety Directors (NCSSD) to advocate for building a national standard, certification and continuing education program for School Safety Directors. For more information, please visit ZeroNow.org.
About the CATS2 Foundation
The Center for Applied Technologies for School Security (CATS2) was founded on the belief that all children deserve to feel safe in school. School security measures should be available to all schools regardless of their financial circumstance. CATS2’s mission is to deter, mitigate, and minimize mass violence in schools through efficient and appropriate technologies, with a focus on primary and secondary schools. We foster, support, promote, and conduct programs, projects, and activities to generate new research, knowledge, technologies, and solutions that support our mission. Find out more about our work at https://www.cats2.org
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