Be Water: What Cobb County’s Water Agreements Can Teach Us About Protecting Kids
In Week 10 of Cobb 101, we toured a water reclamation facility and witnessed the expertise and 24/7 commitment required to keep clean water flowing to every home and business. That reliability isn’t accidental—it’s engineered through planning, coordination, and agreements that reduce friction across jurisdictions. But when it comes to children, we don’t build those pathways in advance. Instead, critical signals about a child’s mental state can get trapped behind FERPA, HIPAA, parental consent, and local rules—sometimes for months. What if we adopted a “Be Water” model: secure, pre-agreed information pathways that let authorized people act before a child reaches a breaking point?
Bend, Oregon…Another School Shooting and the Warnings We Keep Missing
Bend, Oregon is the latest reminder that school shootings rarely come out of nowhere. In the days ahead, people will argue about parents, gun laws, and school security—but the conversation that’s often missing is the one about community touch points: family court, social services, schools, mental health supports, and everyday adults who see early signals long before violence reaches a classroom.
The warning signs in many cases aren’t absent—they’re distributed across systems that don’t connect. Communities can change that by adopting a “Known Child” standard, strengthening handoffs between home and school, and using Community Relationship Management to track touch points, coordinate follow-up, and make sure no child becomes invisible.
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