We’re passionate
about helping you save lives.
Meet Dr. Amy Foxman
Amy Foxman is a seasoned educator and Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a gift for turning compassion into action. With a background that bridges public education, special education, and clinical ABA, Amy has spent her career helping learners thrive—not just academically, but safely and meaningfully in the world around them.
As co-creator of the S.A.F.E.-T. Assessment and Skills Goal Bank, Amy brings deep experience from classrooms, crisis situations, and care teams. She has supported countless students with complex needs—navigating elopement, trauma, emergency drills, and more—with calm, practical strategies that honor both dignity and safety.
What sets Amy apart is her unwavering belief that every student deserves to feel safe, and every educator deserves the tools to help make that possible. She understands the weight teachers and clinicians carry, and created S.A.F.E.-T. to lighten the load—offering a clear, collaborative path for teaching essential safety skills across settings.
Meet Dr. Amanda N. Kelly
Dr. Amanda N. Kelly is a passionate educator, fierce advocate, and board certified behavior analyst who who knows firsthand how quickly life can change. Through challenges that tested her strength and resilience, she’s carried one unshakable belief: safety isn’t guaranteed —but it can be taught. These experiences fuel her drive to turn hardship into hope, equipping others with skills that save lives and strengthen communities.
Rather than focusing on what’s been lost, Dr. Kelly’s story is about what’s possible: transforming adversity into advocacy, and pain into purpose. She brings urgency and heart to her work, ensuring safety instruction is not only practical, but also empowering and accessible.
As co-creator of the S.A.F.E.-T. Assessment and Goal Bank, Dr. Kelly is redefining what it means to teach safety—making it trauma-informed, universal, and achievable across homes, schools, clinics, and communities. Her vision is clear: when safety is taught with care, confidence grows, lives are protected, and possibilities expand.
How We Met
Dr. Amanda and Dr. Amy first met at TxABA 2022, when Dr. Amy attended Dr. Amanda’s talk on the life, tragedy, and legacy of Feda and Muhammed Almaliti. Dr. Amanda was there to share the heartbreaking loss of her dear friend and her friend’s son in a house fire. Dr. Amy came hoping to find tools she could bring back to her clients, but what she found that day was only the story. At the time, nothing in our field offered practitioners a systematic way to teach and prioritize safety. With Dr. Amy’s research background in fire alarms, prevention, and emergency response, and Dr. Amanda’s lived experience, they realized together they could create what was missing. S.A.F.E.-T. was born out of loss, hope, and a shared commitment to give families and providers the tools they deserve.