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About Margolis, Healy & Associates
Margolis, Healy & Associates, LLC, is a professional services firm specializing in higher education safety and security. Our focus includes, but is not limited to, campus facility security assessments; crisis response training and policy development; behavioral threat assessment team development and case-by-case threat assessment consultation; campus public safety management studies and assessment centers; litigation consultation; security technology audits; Clery Act documentation audits and training; and campus public safety arming & deployment strategy studies. In January 2008, after more than 15 years each of providing consulting services to clients in the education, public and private sectors, Dr. Gary J. Margolis and Mr. Steven J. Healy merged their practices, Margolis & Associates, LLC and Strategic Security Consulting, LLC, into Margolis, Healy & Associates, LLC. Their combined experience has quickly catapulted MH&A into one of the leading professional services firms for safety and security needs at universities, colleges and K-12 school systems.
Our team of professionals brings a diverse set of skills and expertise to client institutions ranging from large public universities to private institutions, community colleges and K-12 school districts. A listing and map of our clients can be found at http://www.margolis-healy.com/index.php/about/clients/.
Dr. Margolis, Mr. Healy and their team have personally managed or been intimately involved with scores of critical incidents on college campuses ranging from violent crime to natural disasters (including the 9/11 tragedy and its impact on the schools in NYC). We have first-hand experience in crisis response and recovery planning and operations at institutions of higher education. With regards to threat assessment, we help institutions of higher education and K-12 school districts develop and implement a threat assessment capacity that fits within their unique cultures and that is effective in both preventing violence and helping persons in need. We train higher education institutions on how to create and implement a threat assessment team (or add threat assessment capabilities to an existing team) and how to identify, investigate, evaluate, and intervene with persons and situations that raise concern on campus. We also consult on individual threat cases and provide guidance on crafting or revising institutional policies and procedures to facilitate effective threat assessment and collaborative case management.
MH&A has developed a unique, proprietary methodology for evaluating safety and security needs at institutions of higher education and K-12 school systems based years of educational campus safety and security experience, reflection and evaluation. Mr. Healy and Dr. Margolis are the lead authors of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrator’s Blueprint for Safer Campuses: An Overview of the Virginia Tech Tragedy and Implications for Campus Safety. This document, unveiled at a press conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University on April 18, 2008, is a roadmap for campus safety and security. The Blueprint for Safer Campuses outlines the guiding principles for campus safety and security worldwide.
Shortly after the Virginia Tech incident, the President of The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, determined to establish an ad hoc Task Force on School and Campus Safety (Task Force) to consider what had transpired since the issuance of the previous NAAG report in 1999, including the incident at Virginia Tech, and issue a report making updated recommendations regarding the prevention of, and response to, violence in schools and on college campuses. Mr. Healy participated in the development of this report, The National Association of Attorneys General Task Force on School and Campus Safety.
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This project was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 2008-CK-WX-K006 awarded by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions contained herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. References to specific companies, products, or services should not be considered an endorsement by the author(s) or the U.S. Department of Justice. Rather, the references are illustrations to supplement discussion of the issues.