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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 23, 2022
Miami Beach to Complete Installation of ‘Stop the Bleed’ Kits
in Public Schools
— Parkland Mother Lori Alhadeff’s Organization Helped Fund the Initiative —
Miami Beach, FL – The City of Miami Beach will unveil new Stop the Bleed kits that are being
installed in every public school classroom in the city this month. The ceremony will take place
at City Hall on Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. just outside the third-floor commission chambers.
“We want this to be the best investment we never have to use,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan
Gelber. “Unfortunately, the threat of school violence is one that is all too real, so we will
continue to do all we can to protect our children.”
Parkland Mother Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, in the school
shooting, helped provide the Miami Beach kits through her Make Our Schools Safe
organization, which is dedicated to driving and guiding best practices in school safety by
empowering students and staff to maintain safety and vigilance in a secure school
environment.
“We just want to see that the kits get into the schools and that they're there in a life-threatening
emergency situation if needed,” Alhadeff said.
The medical kits are equipped with tourniquets, compression bandages and blood-clotting
hemostatic gauze to control excessive blood loss. Miami Beach officials agreed to contribute
$20,000 to the cost of the kits. Alhadeff’s Make Our Schools Safe organization contributed
another $15,000 and the office of Miami-Dade School Board Member Lucia Baez-Geller
contributed $2,000.
“These kits will allow our children to get potentially life-saving first aid in the moments before
emergency personnel arrive on the scene,” added former Miami Beach Commissioner Micky
Steinberg, who championed the initiative during her time on the commission.
All Miami Beach Public Schools now have Stop the Bleed kits in every classroom as well as in
classrooms at nearby Treasure Island Elementary, which has a number of students who live in
Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has absorbed the cost of training, installation
and upkeep of the kits.
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