SAFE SCHOOLS SUMMIT

August 4-5, 2026

Butte, MT

Our Mission

Creating a Safe School Environment Through Prevention and Preparedness.

Please join recognized experts from around the state and nation as we discuss best practices for student and educator safety and creating safe school environments. With a theme of Cultivating Hope, Safety, and Connection In Our Schools, this statewide summit is designed for school safety teams, educators, school nurses, mental health professionals, law enforcement, and emergency and disaster preparedness coordinators.

Keynote Speakers

Kristi Krings is the CEO of Rachel’s Challenge, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping schools build positive, connected cultures that support student well-being and prevent violence. Since its founding in 2001, Rachel’s Challenge has reached more than 30 million students and educators nationwide, providing evidence-informed programming focused on connection, empathy, and student voice.

Mark Barden is co-founder and co-CEO of Sandy Hook Promise. Since the tragic murder of his son, Daniel, during the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, Mark has dedicated himself to sparing other families the pain of losing children to gun violence.

Mark believes that thoughtful, sincere dialogue centered on protecting youth will lead us to shared common ground and nonpartisan solutions everyone can agree with. These include expanded background checks, secure storage of firearms, extreme risk protection laws, and other measures that are proven to prevent gun violence.

Attendee Feedback

What Past Attendees Shared With Us:

I found the summit to be very interesting and beneficial. I am happy to see the many organizations that are out there for us teachers to turn to when a child is having problems that need professional services. The speakers in each break-out session were great.

This was one of the best-organized and highest-quality conferences I’ve attended.

I think this event will continue to grow in popularity. I think people found it to be very useful and I appreciate the opportunity to learn from others who are in the field.

This summit was very well done. I hope it continues to grow! See you next year!

The personal touch by the Bullock family to have the barbeque and mingle with all of us was so heart felt. Their story inspires purpose in education at a time when purpose and inspiration are so needed.

It was refreshing and reinvigorating to have taken part in an event with such substance, relevance, and purpose.

I cannot tell you how humbled and honored I was to have taken part in the summit.