4Ms - 4 Mandatories of Safe Family, School, Work, Community, Environments and Relationships

Nathaniel J. Williams, Ed.D.
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There are 4 required and universal elements of safety that must always be present to keep people, places, and things safe. The elements of safety are mental health/wellness, mentorship, mediation, and mapping. Mental health/wellness is defined as interest in assessing the status, functioning, and comfort of individuals by stressing the importance of accepting that it is okay to get some help. Furthermore, through mentorship, a guide, tutor, or teacher plays a role in strategizing steps toward success by getting individuals to acknowledge whose shoulders we stand on. In addition, mediation denotes the importance of allowing for intervention, facilitation, and enabling to highlight the fact that there are always alternatives to consider when managing a circumstance. Lastly, mapping signifies the role that a plan, record keeping, and charting serves in communicating where a person has gone and desires to go.

The 4Ms of Safety represent an effort to remove the wiggle room that failure requires. Mediation asks us to question, “Did you consider this?” Mental wealth/wellness asks us to consider, “Are you OK?” Mentorship answers the question, “Who has your back?” Mapping challenges us to answer the question, “Where are you going?”