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1998 Annual Report on School Safety
Site offers suggestions for school to improve safety.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/AnnSchoolRept98/index.html


1999 Annual Report on School Safety
Site presents summary information on problem behavior programs that have demonstrated effectiveness.
http://www.ed.gov/PDFDocs/InterimAR.pdf


Colorado School Violence Prevention and Student Discipline Manual
Discipline--checklist for reasonable and appropriate use of force.
http://www.ago.state.co.us/cssm/cssm.htm


Crime Doesn’t Have to be a Fact of Life
Site offers common-sense precautions to cut crime and counter fear. Offers ideas to adults and kids for ways to get involved.
http://www.weprevent.org/


Crime Doesn’t Have to be a Fact of Life - Students
Site outlines easy ways for teenagers and kids to get involved to prevent crime in their communities.
http://www.weprevent.org/


Critical Issue: Developing and Maintaining Safe Schools
Site gives an overview of the issues contributing to school violence problems and a list of goals and objectives by school administrators, teachers, parents and student along with action to be taken and implementation pitfalls.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa200.htm


Early Warning, Timely Response-A Guide to Safe Schools
A Guide to Safe Schools Identifies both anger and aggression as two of the many warning signs.
http://www.air-dc.org/cecp/guide/


Get Real About Violence
A video/teaching prevention program for purchase from AGC/United Learning.
http://getrealaboutviolence.com/


Global Violence Prevention - MINCAVA
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse provides and interactive website designed for professionals that offers violence prevention and intervention info, as well as a listing of on-line research.
http://www.globalvp.umn.edu/


Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
This site includes prevention guidelines, threat assessment, crisis planning, legal considerations, media recomnmmendations, legislative issues, etc.
http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pubs/pslc/svindex.htm


Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence - Prevention
Site includes prevention guidelines for the role of school officials, students, parents, and law enforcement. Gives a list of Identifying Warning Signs of Potential Violence.
http://www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pubs/pslc/svprev.htm


Making Children, Families, and Communities Safer From Violence
Stopping the violence is everyone’s business. What you can do. Ideas for helping yourself, family and community.
http://www.ncpc.org/ncpc/ncpc/?pg=5882-3200-12948-15178-6148


Peaceful Schools-Walking the Talk: Implementing Violence Prevention Efforts
Article offers and examination of different ways the education system can target and impact violence prevention work.
http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct98/article7.html


Safe at School: A Resource Manual for Self-Assessment, Planning and Training to Improve School Safety
Manual was developed to assist school districts and their communities in planning how they will ensure a safe learning environment for their students. Chapters include overview of a safe school plan, problem anticipation and assessment, common contributors to violence, intervention and prevention, and managing and responding to crises. Includes sample plan for action, model objective statements and numerous assessment guides.
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/safeschools/PDF/SafeSchool.PDF


Safeguarding Your Children
Helping children deal with a school bully and teaching children how to avoid sexual harassment.
http://www.pta.org/programs/sfgrdtoc.htm


Securing the Future for Safer Youth and Communities
Effective examples and ideas for communities, adults and teens to make safer neighborhoods and schools. A chart features risk factors for Heatlh & Behavioral Problems.
http://128.121.17.146/ncpc/ncpc/?pg=2088-6142


Steps Parents Can Take to Stop School Violence
A fact sheet from the National Crime Prevention Council of 12 concrete steps parents can take as a beginning to fight violence.
http://www.nwrel.org/comm/monthly/stepscanstop.html


Summit Report on School Safety and the Prevention of School Violence
Recommendations from the Colorado Summit on School Safety on guns, parent responsibility, and safe and orderly schools, hosted by the Colorado Governor and Attorney General.
http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/govnr_dir/SmmtRpt.pdf


U.S. Secret Service Safe School Initiative-An Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools
The goals of this U.S. Secret Service project were to gather and analyze accurate and useful information about the behavior and thinking of young persons who commit acts of targeted violence in our nation’s schools and to provide this information to school and law enforcement professionals with responsibilities to help prevent incidents of targeted violence. Secret Service personnel studied 37 school shootings and interviewed 10 of the attackers for their perspective on the decision to engage in
http://www.treas.gov/usss/ntac


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