School Safety
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School Safety - Programs

This section provides examples of State and local programs and initiatives available online.

Bridgework/Theatre on Line
Bridgework/Theatre on Line presents issue-based, contemporary plays for children on a variety of topics, including conflict resolution, anger management, bullying and teasing prevention, and respect and tolerance.

Colorado Anti-Bullying Project
The Colorado Anti-Bullying Project is an electronic resource for information on bullying, providing resources, research and links for teachers, parents, and students.

CRU Institute
The mission of CRU Institute is to teach young people effective, peaceful ways to resolve conflict and to develop understanding, respect, and the ability to cooperate with others in a multicultural world.

Federal Activities Addressing Violence in Schools
Many federal agencies actively address the problem of violence in schools by acquiring and disseminating information about school violence and supporting strategies that work to reduce violence. The following inventory of federal activities addressing violence in schools was created through the collaborative effort of many federal agencies and offices. It is designed to facilitate the coordination of federal school violence prevention activities and enhance collaboration on future projects. By describing these activities and projects, this inventory will also help those interested to better understand federal activities addressing violence in schools. This inventory will be updated on a semi-annual basis.

Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy
The Indiana Department of Education provides to every public and accredited non-public school district a certified training program for school safety specialists. There are currently over 600 school safety specialists enrolled in Basic and Advanced level school safety training with the Indiana School Safety Specialist Academy.

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Jigsaw Classroom
The "jigsaw classroom," a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience. Hundreds of educators have used the jigsaw classroom with great success. The jigsaw approach is considered to be a particularly valuable tool in averting tragic events such as the Columbine massacre.

The Love and Safety Club
The Love and Safety Club is designed to educate children on a variety of safety topics including buckling up seatbelts; looking both ways before crossing the street; water, fire, and bicycle safety; dealing with strangers and bullies on the school grounds; keeping bad secrets, and more. It also offers parents and educators a viable alternative to less effective methods of safety education for their children and students. The Love and Safety Club's concept is simple: by using music and a child's natural ability to commit "fun" words to memory, children are offered the opportunity to learn basic safety skills in whatever environment they choose.

Maine Project Against Bullying
The Maine Project Against Bullying organizes and presents proven techniques, strategies, methodologies, and programs that support students, schools, and communities in addressing the problem of bullying/harassment of children in kindergarten through fourth grade.

Metropolitan Center for Urban Education: Safe Schools for the Twenty-First Century
Since its inception in 1978, the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) at New York University's School of Education has been a leading force in efforts to assure the best in education for underserved youth. Metro Center's mission is to ensure equity and achieve excellence in the educational experiences of children and youth by promoting an understanding of and providing services and assistance to underserved populations and the education, government, and community agencies that serve them.

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New Jersey Department of Education: Character Education Partnership
The New Jersey Character Education Pilot Program, funded for 4 years by the U.S. Department of Education under the Improving America's Schools Act, Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Projects grant program, involves a partnership with the State's largest school system, the Newark Public Schools, and the Newark Do Something Fund. The pilot project created a demonstration project of national significance while allowing all of the State's schools to become partners with the State in developing and refining character education programs and strategies. The U.S. Department of Education's ability to provide technical assistance and disseminate project outcomes is enhanced by the character education clearinghouse function, professional development and conferencing opportunities, publications planning, and the support of the national Character Education Partnership.

Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me Project
The Don't Laugh at Me Project is working to transform schools, camps, and other youth organizations into more compassionate, safe, and respectful environments for children. Founded by Peter Yarrow of the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary, the project disseminates educational resources that are designed to establish a climate that reduces the emotional and physical cruelty some children inflict upon each other by behaviors such as ridicule, bullying, and—in extreme cases—violence.

Report Someone.com
The Report Someone.com Web site provides links that allow teenagers to report other teens who are threatening to bring guns to school, talking about suicide, being abused, or bringing drugs to school. The Web site also provides links to information that interests teens-from online games to health issues.

Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative 
The mission of the SS/HS Initiative is to assist and support SS/HS and School Action grantees in the development and sustenance of peaceful and healthy communities. The Initiative uses a technical assistance model that is consultative, content/evidence-based, culturally competent, and collaborative. The model provides the conceptual and service delivery framework to address the needs of SS/HS and School Action grantees as they implement comprehensive approaches to prevent violence and create safe schools and communities. The SS/HS Initiative provides technical assistance services guided by culturally appropriate practices and policies.

The School Mental Health Project (SMHP) 
SMHP was created in 1986 to pursue theory, research, practice, and training related to addressing mental health and psychosocial concerns through school-based interventions. To these ends, SMHP works closely with school districts, State agencies, the New American Schools Urban Learning Center model, organizations, and colleagues across the country.

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The School Safety Profiler
The School Safety Profiler is a free tool that measures the perceived safety of a school to help reduce or prevent violence. The Profiler is designed to help meet needs assessment requirements for school safety funds and assist in the creation of a positive school environment

Self Enhancement, Inc. (SEI)
SEI provides a safe refuge and positive options to inner-city youth in North/Northeast Portland, Oregon. SEI has designed a program that bolsters every environment in which inner-city children learn, live, and grow into adults. The program was recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a national model of youth violence prevention in 1993.

Students Against Violence Everywhere
Students Against Violence Everywhere chapters emphasize and encourage an attitude of nonviolence. Through school and community events, students in elementary, middle, and high school promote nonviolent solutions to conflicts.

Teach Safe Schools
This website's mission is to help school personnel develop a supportive, safe and inviting learning environment where students can thrive and be successful. It provides evidence-based information and techniques to assist the school community in the prevention of school violence.

Teens, Crime, and the Community
Teens, Crime, and the Community is a national youth program that supports the concept of education and action to create safer, more caring communities for youth by youth.

Time2Act.org
The mission of Time2Act.org is to be a part of the solution to today's problems in education, social development, and youth violence. It is intended to encourage discussion among professionals in education, the justice system, parents, students, and the community to stimulate new approaches to these issues nationwide and initiate reform.

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U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program is the Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools. This program is designed to prevent violence in and around schools, and strengthen programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, involve parents, and are coordinated with related Federal, State and community efforts and resources.

Virginia Center for School Safety
The Virginia Center for School Safety Web site serves as a comprehensive resource center for information and research about school safety in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Center provides training for public school personnel in school safety, serves as a resource and technical assistance center for Virginia school divisions, conducts research, maintains and disseminates information on effective school safety initiatives, and encourages the development of partnerships between the public and private sectors to promote school safety in Virginia.

Virginia Youth Violence Project
The mission of the Virginia Youth Violence Project is to identify effective methods and policies for youth violence prevention, especially in school settings. We conduct and disseminate research on the understanding and reduction of violent behavior, and we provide education, consultation, and training for educators, psychologists, and other colleagues in the social, legal, and human services professions.

Winning Against Violent Environments
The Winning Against Violent Environments conflict-resolution program at King High School in Cleveland, Ohio, is the oldest school-based peer mediation program in Ohio and one of the oldest in the country. The program provides students with a forum for their voices to be heard and the courage and power to speak in the school and the community.

Youth Crime Watch of America (YCWA)
YCWA brings youth of all backgrounds together to identify and correct problems unique to their schools and communities. The YCWA program empowers youth to take an active role in addressing the problems around them. Youth take ownership of the YCWA program for their school, neighborhood, public housing site, recreational center, or park.

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