NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT · EST. 2026
About
The Pink Cabinet Initiative.
PCI is building a connected, proactive approach to school safety—one that helps communities prevent harm, notice concerns, respond responsibly, recover with care, and stop leaving students to navigate the gaps alone.
BACKED BY ACTION.
WHO WE ARE
Safety Is Not Only
What Happens in a Crisis.
The Pink Cabinet Initiative is a New Jersey nonprofit working to help schools strengthen the connections between prevention, student belonging, early identification, responsible intervention, long-term recovery, community partnership, digital safety, and understandable rights.
PCI does not arrive with a one-size-fits-all program. We listen first, map what a school already has, identify where responsibility or access breaks down, and build practical connections with the people who will actually use them.
“It takes a village to keep a child safe, and we are building that village on purpose.”
HOW PCI BEGAN
A Question Became
a Framework.
PCI began when Founder and Executive Director Lulabelle R. Waxman kept returning to one question: why do communities wait for tragedy to expose gaps that students and families have been living inside all along?
The gaps were personal.
Lulabelle’s experiences with learning differences, bullying, special education, homebound instruction, and the adults who finally helped her reach graduation shaped the questions at the center of PCI.
The patterns kept appearing.
Across five years working in South Jersey schools—two in general education and three in special education—she saw remarkable care alongside overloaded people and systems that did not always connect.
She stopped waiting to ask.
In December 2025, one letter to the U.S. Department of Education turned a private question into organized research, outreach, a seven-pillar framework, and a public commitment to keep going.
PCI became official.
On June 1, 2026, The Pink Cabinet Initiative was incorporated as a New Jersey nonprofit. The work has continued through school outreach, cross-sector conversations, framework development, and focused pilot planning.
THIS IS WHY THE WORK CANNOT WAIT
Dedicated to
the Forever Kids.
The Forever Kids are the young people whose lives became numbers after the systems around them ran out of time. Some were killed in school violence. Some died by suicide while carrying pain, isolation, bullying, trauma, mental-health struggles, or other burdens no young person should have to carry alone. They are not statistics. They are children and young people who deserved more time, more support, and a real chance to be reached.
people killed or wounded in active-shooter incidents at elementary and secondary schools from 2000 through 2022.
young people ages 10–24 who died by suicide in the United States in 2023.
of attackers in an NTAC study displayed objectively concerning or prohibited behaviors that were observed by others.
If the 2023 suicide count for ages 10–24 simply repeated for five years, this is the number of young lives represented. It is an illustration of scale, not a forecast.
of attacks in the NTAC study included at least one prohibited behavior observed by classmates or adults that was not reported.
One child lost is already too many. These numbers come from different populations and time periods, so they should never be added together as though they describe one single group. Their shared truth is simpler: young people are being hurt, warning behaviors are sometimes visible, and prevention cannot begin after a child has already become a statistic.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics · CDC National Vital Statistics System · U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center. The five-year figure is 6,417 multiplied by five solely to illustrate scale if the annual count remained unchanged; it is not a forecast. Bullying is one of many possible risk factors for suicide and is not presented here as a single or direct cause.
If you or someone you know needs immediate emotional support, call or text 988 in the United States.
THE CONNECTED FRAMEWORK
Seven Pillars.
One Accountable Village.
The pillars are not seven separate programs. Together, they help a school community see the whole path surrounding a student.
Prevention
Belonging, climate, and protective conditions.
Early Identification
Clear, careful routes from concern to review.
Intervention
Coordinated, proportionate action with ownership.
Recovery
Support that remains after attention moves on.
Community Partnership
Real relationships and warm handoffs.
Digital Safety & AI Literacy
Privacy, literacy, reporting, and human review.
Legal Advocacy
Navigation, documentation, and qualified referrals.
HOW PCI WORKS
Built With a School.
Not Imposed on One.
A PCI pilot begins with the real people, policies, resources, relationships, and pressures already present in a school community.
- 01
Listen
Hear from students, families, educators, leaders, and partners about what works and where access breaks down.
- 02
Map
Make existing systems, responsibilities, referral paths, resources, and gaps visible.
- 03
Connect
Strengthen handoffs, ownership, communication, and community partnership around students.
- 04
Learn
Measure implementation honestly, gather feedback, and improve the model without pretending one version fits every school.
WHAT PCI HAS BUILT
From One Letter
to a Working Organization.
Seven-Pillar Framework
A connected model spanning prevention, recognition, response, recovery, partnership, digital safety, and legal navigation.
Research and Listening
Stakeholder conversations across education, public safety, mental health, law, government, foundations, and advocacy.
New Jersey Nonprofit
Formally incorporated on June 1, 2026, creating the organizational home for the framework and future pilot.
Focused Pilot Planning
A practical approach designed to be built with a school community, mapped to its existing systems, and improved through implementation.
Cross-Sector Validation
Professionals from different fields and political perspectives have repeatedly delivered the same message: the need is real, and PCI should keep going.
A Growing Village
Introductions, follow-ups, meetings, and new relationships are expanding the circle of people willing to think with PCI.
WHERE WE’VE BEEN
A Small Question
Kept Traveling.
- DECEMBER 2025
The First Letter
Lulabelle sends the letter that transforms a persistent question into formal outreach and a public commitment.
- EARLY 2026
Research and Community Listening
PCI begins structured conversations and develops the connected framework around real gaps and real practice.
- JUNE 1, 2026
Official Incorporation
The Pink Cabinet Initiative becomes a New Jersey nonprofit corporation.
- SUMMER 2026
Framework Outreach
The model reaches school leaders, public officials, public-safety professionals, advocates, and organizations.
- FALL 2026
Conversation Becomes Traction
Cross-sector meetings, referrals, and continued encouragement sharpen the framework and open new pathways.
- NEXT
A Focused School Pilot
PCI is seeking the school community willing to build, test, measure, and improve the first implementation together.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE WORK
Serious Mission.
Very Human People.
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Lulabelle R. Waxman
Lived experience, five years in schools, family advocacy, and degrees in Counterterrorism and Intelligence Studies shape PCI’s prevention-focused lens.
DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS
Jesse S. Weiner
Relationship building, follow-through, audience engagement, and partnership continuity help turn an introduction into a real working connection.
WHERE PCI IS NOW
Ready to Build
the First Pilot Together.
PCI is not asking a school to discard the work it has already done. We are asking for the chance to help its people, policies, resources, and relationships work as one more visible and accountable village around students.