TOPIC: Safe Schools and Violence Prevention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packets

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

Articles

• Safe Schools in the Context of School Improvement
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement.  Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• 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

Newsletters

• Behavior Problems: What's a School to Do?
• Bullying and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game
• Rethinking How Schools Address Student Misbehavior & Disengagement
• Safe Students/Healthy Schools: A collaborative Process

Information Resource

• About Conducting Crisis Exercises and Drills
• About Police on School Campuses
• Addressing Violent Behavior at Schools
• Assessing Whether a Student Might Commit a Violent Act
• Bullying and LGBT Students
• Cyberbullying among Students
• Gang Affiliation: Personal Academic and Mental Health Impact
• Preventing Teen Dating Violence
• Sexual Harassment by Peers in Schools
• Teen Dating
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days 
• Who are School Resource Officers?

Practice Notes

• About School Shootings
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affect the School
• Bullying
• Bullying: A Major Barrier to Student Learning
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Policy Notes

• About How State Education Agencies are Handling Concerns about Bullying
• Youth Gangs and Schools

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

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Delinquency
• Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2021
• Indicators of school crime and safety;2014
• Understanding the link between childhood maltreatment and violent delinquency: What do schools have to add?
Policy Issues/Guides
• Action Steps Following The March for Our Lives Demonstrations: A Toolkit
• Alternatives to School Police Programs
• Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools
• Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention (CSPV)
• Climate, Technology, Trust: Ways to Help Students Report Threats to Their School
• Conceptualizing and Measuring Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments in Educational Settings
• Counselors Not Cops: Ending the Regular Presence of Law Enforcement in Schools
• Creating safe, equitable, and engaging schools
• Guide to Recovery: a collection of best practices to assist school leaders in the aftermath of shooting tragedies
• Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
• Framing community safety
• Foundational elements of school safety
• A Framework for Safe Successful Schools
• Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates for students and school staff
• Guns in Schools
• Home & School Safety Education for Kids
• How to Approach Student Walkouts (MI)
• How History and Research Can Better Protect Children from School Shootings
• K-12 school security: A guide for preventing and protecting against gun violence
• Police Free Schools
• The Principal Recovery Network Guide to Recovery from a school shooting
• Resources for State Leaders Seeking to Improve School Safety
• Responding to School Walkout Demonstrations
• Risk factors for youth violence
• School Resource Officers, School Law Enforcement Units, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• School policing programs
• School Safety: Guns in Schools
• School Safety, Model Programs Guide
• School Safety Stratigies and Their Effects on the Occurrence of School-Based Violence in U.S. High Schools
• School shootings and youth mental health
• Should school conduct lockdown drills?
• Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere
• Supporting Young People in the Wake of Violence and Trauma
• Toolkit One: Assess Developmental Levels of Safety Awareness
• Veto Violence
• Violence and Mental Health: Opportunities for Prevention and Early Detection
Programs and Evaluations
• Comprehensive School Safety
• Conceptualizing and Measuring Safe and Supportive Schools
• Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools: A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Students
• Effectiveness of School-Based Violence Prevention Programs
• Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model
• Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention, and Policy
• Impact of school based law enforcement
• Mass Violence and Behavioral Health
• Nine Ways to Help Students Discuss Guns and Violence
• Policing and Educational Outcomes
• Reimagining school safety
• Resources for Responding to School Shootings and Violence
• Safe and supportive learning environments
• SaferSanerSchools: a Program of the International Institute of Restorative Practices
• School Safety Strategies and Their Effects on the Occurence of School-Based Violence in U.S. High Schools: An Exploration Study
• Texas School Safety Plan
• Trends and Changes in Approaches to School Safety
• Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse
• "School-Based Violence Prevention Programs" (2002) Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
• Should Schools Be Conducting Lockdown Drills?
• Supporting Individual Willingness to Report School Safety Concerns
• What a Systematic Review of 32 Evaluations Says About the Impact of School-Based Law Enforcement
School Uniforms
• Effects of Student Uniforms on Attendance, Behavior Problems, Substance Use, and Academic Achievement
• School Dress Codes
Schools and Terrorism
• Behavioral threat assessment in schools
• Helping Kids After A Shooting
• Illinois Terrorism Task Force's School Safety Working Group
• Primer to Design Safe Schools Project
• Misconceptions about school shootings
• Recommendations for Terrorism Preparedness Plans
• Relations between youths' community violence exposure and their physical aggression: The protective role of adults
• School crime and safety
• Five Misconceptions about School Shootings
• A Teacher's Guide on the Prevention of Violent Extremism (UNESCO)
Statistics/Data
• 50-State Comparison: K-12 School Safety
• Adolescents' exposure to community violence and associations with after-school activities across two samples
• Campus attacks: Targeted violence affecting institutions of higher education
• Characteristics of School-Associated Youth Homicides — United States
• Facts about mass shootings in schools
• Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools. Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2009–10
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2023 Report
• The Final Report and Findings of the Safe Schools Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
• "First reports evaluating the effectiveness of strategies for prevention of violence: Early childhood home visitation" (2003) Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Impact of School Safety Drills for Active Shootings
• School Survey on Crime and Safety
• State Report on the Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: – U.S. States and Other Jurisdictions. 2019–20 School Year
• Protecting America's schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence
• Mass Shootings
• Summary of School Safety Statistics
• Surgeon General Report on Youth Violence
• Youth Violence
Sexual Violence
• Adolescent Romantic Relationships: Why are they important
• Preventing Dating Violence
• Love is Respect
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
• Sexual Harassment: It Is Not Academic
• Sexual Harassment Prevention in Schools: Curriculum Manual
• Sexual Violence Prevention Strategies
• Transitions in aggression among children: Effects of gender and exposure to online violence
Violence Prevention
• A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors
• Addressing the Intersection: preventing violence and promoting healthy eating and active living
• Can We Prevent School Shootings?
• Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention
• Children's Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center
• A Community Approach to the Prevention of Violence by Youth.
• Community safety realized: Public health pathways preventing violence
• Connecting the Dots: An Overview of the Links Among Multiple Forms of Violence
• Coping Style Moderates the Relationship Between Community Violence and Depressive Symptoms in Urban Adolescents
• Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention
• Exposure to community violence: processes that increase the risk for inner-city middle school children
• Exposure to Violence and Associated Health-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls
• Fact Sheet on Violence: Adolescents & Young Adults
• Inspire: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children
• Know the Signs. Save Lives
• Mass Violence, Community Violence, and Hate Crimes
• Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• Patterns of community violence exposure among urban adolescents and their associations with adjustment
• Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence: A Strategic Vision for Connecting the Dots
• Preventing School Violence and Promoting School Safety: Contemporary Scholarship Advancing Policy and Practice
• Preventing Youth Violence: an overview of the evidence
• Protecting Students From Harassment and Hate Crime: A Guide for Schools
• Racism Obstructs the Path to School Safety and Educational Equity: The Need for an Anti-Racism Focus in School Violence Prevention
• Relational Aggression at School: Associations with School Safety and Social Climate
• Role of the Pediatrician in Youth Violence Prevention
• School lockdown drills pose particular challenges (and risks) for students with disabilities
• School Safety Strategies and Their Effects on the Occurrence of School-Based Violence in U.S. High Schools
• Teachers' Experiences with School Violence and Lockdown Drills
• School Violence
• School Violence and Safety
• Secondary School Student Attitudes toward Sexual Violence: Identifying Clusters and Their Implications for Prevention Programs
• Students' Reports of Severe Violence in School as a Tool for Early Detection and Prevention
• Technical Packages for Violence Prevention: Using Evidence-based Strategies in Your Violence Prevention Efforts
• Threat Assessment
• Through our eyes: Children, violence and trauma
• Using Enviornmental Design to Prevent School Violence
• To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility: A Thirty Year Update of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
• Will charging the parents of school shooters help prevent school shootings?
• "World Report on Violence and Health" (2002)
• Youth Violence Prevention: Building Local Power and Empowering Youths

Video Clips

• Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma (video series)

Related Agencies and Websites

• Adults and Children Together - Against Violence (ACT Against Violence)
• National Adolescent Health Information Center
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
• Children's Defense fund: School Violence
• Education Development Center
• National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
• National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence
• National School Climate Center
• National Organizations for Youth Safety
• National School Safety and Security Services
• North Central Regional Education Lab
• The Peace Center
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• SchoolSafety.gov
• Virginia Youth Violence Project

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