Safer America For All

06/06/2025

Join me today recognizing June 6th as National Naloxone Awareness Day! This nasal spray into a known or suspected opioid overdose in adults and children can SAVE THEIR LIVES.

Safer America for All is a Proud Partner of Victoria's Voice Foundation!

David and Jackie Siegel’s world was forever changed when their 18-year-old daughter Victoria died of a drug overdose on June 6, 2015. In the depths of their despair, David and Jackie dedicated themselves to understanding how this tragedy came to pass. And in doing so, they learned a great deal about the drug epidemic stealing young lives in our country.
Although they cannot change their own story of loss, David and Jackie have committed to turning the tragedy of Victoria’s death into a national platform for drug awareness and prevention and saving lives from overdose. As public figures, the Siegels effectively advocated for the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) signed into law on July 22, 2016. This was the first major federal addiction legislation in 40 years and the most comprehensive effort yet to address the opioid epidemic. Its passing laid the groundwork for a coordinated national response.
In an effort to do more, faster to end the opioid crisis in our country, the Siegels later founded Victoria’s Voice Foundation in 2019. Since then, the foundation’s Save Our Kids Education and Prevention Programs have positively impacted more than one million students, parents, educators and community members nationwide.

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Victoria's Voice Foundation

08/05/2024

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06/06/2024

Nine years ago today, Victoria Siegel lost her life due to an accidental drug overdose. We recognize today, June 6th, as National Naloxone Awareness Day in her memory. As the opioid crisis continues to impact families and communities nationwide, the day is intended to help educate people on the dangers of opioid use and the importance of access to life-saving overdose reversal medications, like naloxone.

Most opioid overdoses are witnessed by another individual, so you can help save a life by carrying naloxone—it could be someone you know. Join us today as we honor Victoria’s memory and acknowledge David and Jackie Siegel’s hard work and advocacy with Victoria’s Voice Foundation. Their mission of fighting the drug crisis in our country has allowed Victoria’s memory and voice to continue on in the many lives they’ve dedicated themselves to saving

Victoria's Voice Foundation

06/04/2024

National Naloxone Awareness Day is coming up, and we’re going purple!

As we honor Victoria on the 9th remembrance of her passing, we want to remind you that carrying naloxone can save a life. Naloxone is an overdose reversal medication that’s easy to use and can reduce the effects of an overdose.
Help us raise awareness for naloxone by lighting your own homes and businesses in purple and pink for National Naloxone Awareness Day on June 6th.

Victoria's Voice Foundation

07/20/2023

We are very excited to announce our first Superstar, Kevin Harrington! He is joining our Superstars For School Safety initiative! Kevin Harrington was an Original Shark On Shark Tank,
Inventor Of The Infomercial, and is the Author of 'Mentor to Millions.'

06/26/2023

Safer America for ALL, Inc. (SAFA) is a national clearing house and network for solutions, education, research and funding related to indoor violence and drug awareness with emphasis on America’s schools and youth.

Our Mission:
-Educate the public and decision-makers on state-of-the-art technology utilizing artificial intelligent systems and best practices relating to effective evacuations.
-Engage and promote group and community collaboration, sharing resources and support for law enforcement and first responders.
-Create a fundraising mechanism to raise funds to educate, demonstrate, and implement these technologies and programs.
-Provide training and support for prevention and methodologies to reduce the threat of violence.
-Provide educational resources related to opioid awareness and drug prevention.

Check out our website to learn more about who we are and our mission (https://www.saferamericaforall.org/) or click the link in our bio. If you want to help us accomplish our mission, follow us on social media and share our mission with others.

-SAFA Team

06/21/2023

I grew up in Paducah Ky which was the location of one of the first school shootings in the US at Heath High School in 1997. I remeber this horrible day. I went to Lone Oak High School and one of my classmates was the mother of one of the 3 students killed. Here is an article moving video of ABCNews. A freind shared this link today!

Safer America for All. Inc is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit and our website is www.saferamericaforall.org is a national clearighouse of information of technology and resources to help our childern get home from school safe! SAFA will help raise funds to provide grants to schools to make them safer.

-Bobby Clark
President, Safer America For All (SAFA)

WATCH THIS TOUCHING VIDEO
https://abcnews.go.com/US/survivors-kentucky-school-shooting-recall-deadly-day-25/story?id=91448795

Survivors of Kentucky school shooting recall deadly day, 25 years later.

In 1997, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at his high school, killing 3.

By Michela Moscufo
October 14, 2022, 9:14 PM

School shooting survivors open up nearly 25 years later
Survivors of the 1997 Heath High school shooting speak with "Nightline," as the convicted gunman comes up for parole.

Missy Jenkins Smith was a student at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1997 when a shooter opened fire, killing three of her classmates and injuring her and four others.

Paducah school shooting survivor Missy Jenkins Smith.

"I could speak for hours about what my life has been like every minute of every day for the last quarter century without the use of my legs," she said during the hearing. Smith is paralyzed from the chest down and now relies on a wheelchair.

Jenkins Smith's testimony came as the board was considering whether to release shooter Michael Carneal on parole. Carneal, who told the parole board that he heard voices on the day of the 1997 shooting and also heard voices just a few days before appearing before the panel, was denied parole and will serve out his life sentence. He also said, "I'm sorry for what I did."

The shooter, who was 14 years old at the time, has since received multiple mental health diagnoses. He would have been the first school shooter to be released on parole.

In this Dec. 2, 1997, file photo, students arriving at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., embrace an unidentified adult, after student Michael Carneal opened fire at the school the day before, leaving three students dead and five wounded.

The shooting was one of the first school shooting tragedies, preceding the shootings at Columbine High School, Newtown Elementary, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and, most recently, Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.

Bill Bond, who was the high school principal at the time, remembered where he was when Carneal began shooting. "I'm sitting in my office," he told ABC News. "And I hear, 'Pow. Pow.'"

Bond left his office and entered the lobby of the high school, where he saw "one of my own students had a pistol in his hand," he told ABC News. "Kids were running, and he was shooting. And they were falling."

Bond confronted the shooter. "I was just moving slow, steady forward, so it didn't panic him," he said.

"And all of a sudden, he just looks at the pistol, and just lays it down," Bond said. "And all he said was, 'I'm sorry.' And I wasn't in a forgiving mood. All I said was, 'Shut up.' And that was all I said to him. 'Shut up. Sit down.'"

Three mothers had to bury their children in the subsequent days, and an entire community was left to grieve.

"Almost 25 years later, I'm still hearing stories of Kayce's acts of kindness," said Sabrina Steger, who lost her daughter Kayce Steger in the shooting. "She's just an amazing girl. I was lucky to be her mama."

The victims were Nicole Hadley, Jessica James and Kayce Steger, ages 14, 17, and 15, respectively.

"The community healing as a whole, I don't think it happened," Kelly Hard Alsip, another one of the survivors of the shooting, told ABC News. "I think that it will always live inside us."

"I'm very grateful for it," survivor Christina Ellegood told ABC News, referring to the parole board decision. "But still very lost on how to feel and how to react to it."

"We live. We thrive," said Kelly Hard Alsip. "But it never leaves."

ABC News spoke with the survivors of the 1997 school shooting, as the Kentucky parole board was voting on whether or not the shooter should be given parole.