20 Years Since Columbine, Father of First Victim on How His Team Stopped 7 More School Shootings

Today is the grim anniversary of 20 years since the mass shooting at Columbine High School, and Darrell Scott, the father of the first shooting victim has since built a team that has reportedly prevented a seven additional school shootings since then and reportedly prevents 150 suicides annually. Scott founded Rachel’s Challenge, a school assembly and training program named after his daughter, Rachel Joy Scott. “I remember sitting next to my daughter’s grave the day that she was buried, telling my wife I leaned over and I said I wondered what the next 20 years will be like,” Scott said in an interview with Bold TV. “And 20 years have passed now, and we had no idea at that time that we would be reaching millions of young people around the country with Rachel’s Challenge, but you know this week is always a very somber week for our family, and it’s also a somber week for our whole community. But Rachel’s Challenge has grown now to where we reach one to two million students each year, and  we’re seeing a lot of difference take place in the lives of young people. We see it over 150 suicides prevented every year,…
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