A crisis response intervention team, social workers, police liaison officers, wellness counsellors, and extra staff support for teachers and administrators were sent to the school following the incident. As public frustration and anger grew against the perceived inaction of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) leading up to the incident, Director of Education Manny Figueiredo advised CBC News that "an investigation into what happened get underway once the police investigation wraps [up." After the stabbing, Figueiredo felt the school was still "the safest place for a kid to be right now a lot of [students want to be together, they want to be with their friends and talk and make sense and deal with their grief" even as many parents kept their children home from school in the days after the stabbing. When pressed specifically on the bullying Bracci-Selvey endured and what the school did in response, Figueiredo said he was not aware of what led up to the violence and instead advocated for a community-oriented response: ""The schools don't live in isolation of the community... they need to take a leadership role it comes to bullying because we have these students for five hours a day. We have to continue to engage our kids...if a kid turns to us, how are we responding so they see that it's safe to respond?"" Figueiredo encouraged students who do not feel safe, or have not felt safe in the past, to raise their concerns with adults.