State To Launch ‘Choose Love’ Conference In Effort To Tackle Behavior Leading To School Shootings

From Patch:

The Department of Education will host a conference in August designed to train students and educators in techniques to “disrupt the pathway to violence” and engage in conflict resolution, two months after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, spurred outrage.

The Executive Council approved the “New Hampshire Choose Love Statewide Conference” Tuesday, opening the way for the department’s Office of Social and Emotional Wellness to hold the event next month. The state is partnering with the “Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement,” a nonprofit founded in the wake of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, named after Jesse Lewis, a 6-year-old who died in that attack.

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