University of Houston Clear Lake Video Case Study – Wellbeing
UHCL Director of Counseling Services, Cynthia Cook, discusses how important mental health and well-being are and how being safe and feeling safe is critical for their students.
UHCL Director of Counseling Services, Cynthia Cook, discusses how important mental health and well-being are and how being safe and feeling safe is critical for their students.
After a demonstration of SafeZone, UHCL’s executive leadership team immediately saw its value not just for enhancing safety, but for providing additional support for students’ mental and emotional well-being.
West Texas A&M University was already ranked as one of the safest places in the U.S. to attend college, but wanted to do more to enhance the security and wellbeing of students, faculty and staff.
To safeguard this community, the University of Arkansas Police Department (UAPD) reviewed available technologies for command and control, officer safety, emergency response, and managing special events. After a careful review, they selected CriticalArc’s SafeZone solution to help protect their campus community.
Because SafeZone is a cloud-based, scalable solution, it can be quickly and easily deployed in days vs. weeks. In the case of this leading institution, the customer was operational within 24 hours, which helped ease the stress of the public safety team.
The SafeZone technology makes it easy for officers to communicate with individual users directly and silently if needed – and lets Texas A&M University-San Antonio Police Department share information, alerts and warnings with other individuals and groups in specific locations across the campus.
The police department at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus is now using SafeZone® in buildings and parking lots across a complex 3 million square feet site, to help officers deliver the fastest and most effective response to calls for assistance by faculty, staff and students.
SafeZone was brought in by NUPD in 2016 as part of a new strategy targeting greater safety awareness and incident prevention. The mobile and web-enabled safety app was seen as being a great fit and is now available for anyone to raise an alert or report something including third-party vendors.
Northumbria University is home to almost 32,000 students and staff and was the first university in Europe to adopt SafeZone®. The service is now used across all its Newcastle facilities, central London campus and a new recently announced Amsterdam site.