TOPIC: Safe Schools and Violence Prevention

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• Safe Schools in the Context of School Improvement
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2007). Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory & Hamilton Fish Institute.
• School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment

Center Practice Brief

• Schools as Caring, Learning Communities

Guides to Practice:

• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Introductory Packets

• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Social and Interpersonal Problems Related to School Aged Youth (PDF)
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Newsletters

• Behavior Problems: What's a School to Do? (Spring 97)
• Bullying and Addressing Barriers to Learning (Winter 05)
• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game (Summer 96)
• Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence (Summer 99)

Other Resources

• Hotline Numbers

Practice Notes

• Bullying: A Major Barrier to Student Learning
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Quick Finds

• Crisis Prevention and Response

Quick Training Aids

• Behavior Problems at School
• Bullying Prevention
• School-Based Crisis Intervention
• Violence Prevention

Resource Aid Packet

• Responding to Crisis at a School

Tools for Practice

• Crisis Assistance and Prevention: A Self-study Survey

Technical Aid Packet

• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Technical Assistance Sampler: Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Training Tutorial

• Crisis Assistance and Prevention: Reducing Barriers to Learning