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Web Sites Related to School Safety
and Violence Prevention
Please select from the list below, or scroll
down for more information about each site.
Blueprints
for Violence Prevention
In 1996, the Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence, with funding from the Colorado Division of
Criminal Justice and the Centers for Disease Control (and
later from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency), initiated a project to
identify ten violence prevention programs that met a very high scientific standard of
program effectiveness—programs that could provide an initial nucleus for a national
violence prevention initiative. The objective was to identify truly outstanding
programs, and to describe these interventions in a series of "blueprints" which
describe the theoretical rationale, the core components of the program as implemented, the
evaluation designs and results, and the practical experiences programs encountered while
implementing the program at multiple sites. Blueprints were designed to be very practical
descriptions of effective programs which would allow states, communities, and individual
agencies to: (1) determine the appropriateness of this intervention for their state or
community; (2) provide a realistic cost estimate for this intervention; (3) provide an
assessment of the organizational capacity needed to ensure its successful start-up and
operation over time; and (4) give some indication of the potential barriers and obstacles
that might be encountered when attempting to implement this type of intervention.
In addition to the Ten Model programs which met this
rigorous selection criteria, a number of programs met some of the criteria and were
designated Promising programs.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
The CDC has as its mission "to promote health and
quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability." As
the Nation's prevention agency, it accomplishes its mission by working with partners
throughout the nation and the world to:
- monitor health
- detect and investigate health problems
- conduct research to enhance prevention
- develop and advocate sound public health policies
- implement prevention strategies
- promote healthy behaviors
- foster safe and healthful environments, and
- provide leadership and training
Center for Effective
Collaboration and Practice
The Center's website (of which this page is a part)
provides online information, electronic interactive discussions, lists of many individuals and organizations with expertise regarding
school safety and violence prevention, and links to
numerous resources important to developing safe schools and communities.
Center for
Mental Health Services
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is a program
of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The CMHS,
in partnership with States, leads national efforts to demonstrate, evaluate, and
disseminate service delivery models to treat mental illness, promote mental health and
prevent the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. To provide
leadership for improved services, CMHS:
- conducts knowledge exchange and information/education
programs;
- facilitates development and application of scientifically
established findings and practice-based knowledge;
- promotes high quality, effective programs and services;
- collaborates with other Federal agencies and departments;
- works closely with SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to address co-occurring mental
illnesses and substance abuse problems;
- emphasizes comprehensive, integrated systems of care,
including consumer and family self-help programs;
- encourages recovery empowerment and participation in the
design, delivery and evaluation of mental health services; and
- sponsors policy research to address managed care delivery
systems movement.
Center for the
Prevention of School Violence
Established in 1993, the Center serves as a primary point
of contact for dealing with the problem of school violence. The Center focuses on ensuring
that schools are safe and secure so that every student is able to attend a school that is
safe and secure, one that is free of fear and conducive to learning.
The Center's Safe Schools Pyramid helps maintain a focus on
the problem of school violence. By focusing on the problem, the Center is able to draw
attention to the seriousness of school violence and act as a resource to turn to for
information, program assistance, and research about school violence prevention. The Center
is a nationally recognized resource for School Resource Officer Programs and has assisted
many North Carolina school systems in their safe school planning efforts.
Center for the
Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
Violence in America has reached epidemic proportions.
Today, all Americans are touched directly or indirectly by violent acts. In
response, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in 1992
with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide informed assistance to
groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent
violence. Since that time, our mission has expanded to encompass violence across the life
course.
In an effort to establish more complete and valuable
information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from
a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of
bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers. CSPV has a
threefold mission. First, the Information House serves to collect research literature and
resources on the causes and prevention of violence and provides direct information
services to the public by offering topical searches on customized databases. Second, CSPV
offers technical assistance for the evaluation and development of violence prevention
programs. Third, CSPV maintains a basic research component through data analysis and other
projects on the causes of violence and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention
programs.
Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention is a program of
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). CSAP's
mission is to provide national leadership in the Federal effort to prevent alcohol,
tobacco, and illicit drug problems. These problems are intrinsically linked to other
serious national problems such as: crime, violence, rising health care costs, academic
failure, HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, and low work productivity. CSAP connects people and
resources to innovative ideas and strategies, and encourages efforts to reduce and
eliminate alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems both in the United States and
internationally. CSAP fosters the development of comprehensive, culturally appropriate
prevention policies and systems that are based on scientifically defensible principles and
target both individuals and the environments in which they live. CSAP participates in the
development of new knowledge about prevention, disseminates it in a "user
friendly" manner, and encourages its application in settings where it is likely to
prevent or reduce substance abuse.
Collaborative to Advance
Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
The Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning
(CASEL) is an international collaborative of educators, scientists, human service
providers, policy makers, and concerned citizens who are working together to promote
social and emotional learning (SEL) as an integral part of education in schools throughout
the world. CASEL seeks to provide a forum that fosters the exchange of educational ideas
and practices that support the development of knowledgeable, responsible, and caring
students.
Developmental Research and
Programs (Building Healthy Communities Through Prevention Science)
DRP was founded in 1984 to translate current research
findings into programs and services for promoting the healthy development of children and
families in communities. DRP is a pioneer in using the principles of prevention science to
guide the development of programs and tools that help families, schools, and communities
ensure positive outcomes for children.
Division
of Adolescent and School Health (DASH)
In 1988, CDC established the National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), within which it created the Division of
Adolescent and School Health (DASH). DASH includes the Office of the Director (OD), the
Program Development and Services Branch (PDSB), and the Surveillance and Evaluation
Research Branch (SERB). The mission of DASH is to: identify the highest
priority health risks among youth, monitor the incidence and prevalence of those risks,
implement national programs to prevent risks, and, evaluate and improve those programs.
Drug
Strategies
Drug Strategies is a non-profit research institute that
promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and
public initiatives that reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, treatment and law
enforcement. As drugs are often linked with violence, the institute has produced a
publication entitled Safe Schools/Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention
Strategies, which assesses over 80 violence prevention programs created for classroom
use.
Injury
Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section of the American Public Health
Association
The ICEHS is a national forum for all professionals
committed to the control of violence and unintentional injuries, and the delivery of
emergency health care services. This website will provide news updates and activity
notices for ICEHS and general information from the Injury Prevention Community.
Institute
on Violence and Destructive Behavior
The Institute's mission is to empower schools and social
service agencies to address violence and destructive behavior, at the point of school
entry and beyond, in order to ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and
healthy social development of children and youth. This is a combination of community,
campus and state efforts to research violence and destructive behavior among children and
youth.
The Justice Information
Center
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is
one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the
world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals.
NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of
Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau
of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It
also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Johns Hopkins Prevention
Research Center
The goals of the Hopkins Prevention Research Center are to:
- Further develop the theoretical framework, methods, and
research structure necessary to undertake and test epidemiologically-designed preventive
trials aimed at specific risk behaviors.
- Broaden and extend collaborations among prevention
researchers and to facilitate exchanges of concepts, methods, results, and data useful to
prevention research; and,
- Develop opportunities for interdisciplinary prevention
research training, with particular emphasis on exchanges across prevention research and
other relevant research laboratories.
Keep Schools Safe
On September 2, 1998, the National
Association of Attorneys General and the National
School Boards Association announced that the two organizations have joined together to
address the escalating problem of youth violence occurring across our country. Our Youth
Violence and School Safety Initiative is dedicated to promoting a mutual response to
violent instances occurring in our communities and schools. We are committed to working
together to find solutions to these problems.
National
Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
Information is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the
prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, and related child
welfare issues.
National
Educational Service
The National Educational Service works with educators and
youth professionals to help foster environments in which ALL children will succeed. To
this end, NES provides practitioners and community members, parents and policymakers with
the practical, timely information they need to positively effect the lives of children and
youth -- especially those in conflict with family, peers, and school. On their site,
NES maintains extensive resources for addressing the threat of youth violence.
National Institutes of
Mental Health
The NIMH funds prevention research. This site includes a
report by the National Advisory Mental Health Council Workgroup on Mental Disorders
Prevention Research.
The National
Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
Add Health is a school-based study of the health-related
behaviors of adolescents in grades 7-12. It has been designed to explore the causes of
these behaviors, with an emphasis on the influence of social context. That is, Add Health
postulates that families, friends, schools and communities play roles in the lives of
adolescents that may encourage healthy choices of activities or may lead to unhealthy,
self-destructive behaviors. Data to support or refute this theory were collected in
surveys of students, parents, and school administrators. The Add Health study was
funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and 17
other federal agencies.
National
Mental Health and Education Center
The National Mental Health and Education Center for
Children and Families, a public service of the National Association of School
Psychologists, is an information and action network to foster best practices in education
and mental health for children and families--building upon strengths, understanding
diversity, and supporting families.
The primary goal of the National Mental Health and
Education Center is to provide leadership to address the critical issues that affect
education and improve the outcomes for children and their families. The problems of school
failure, classroom disruptions, violence, and drug abuse have actually increased during
each decade over the past 30 years. They place a heavy burden upon families, children,
schools, and communities. At the same time, decision-makers are raising standards for
graduation--often without concurrently improving instruction, classroom management, school
climate, or anticipating how this affects children and families.
National Mental
Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
In the area of mental health, knowledge is power: power to
change, improve, and enhance the lives of people with mental illness.
The National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange
Network (KEN) provides information about mental health via toll-free telephone services,
an electronic bulletin board, and publications.
The National Center for Mental Health Services developed
KEN for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy
makers, providers, and the media. KEN is a national, one-stop source of information and
resources on prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services for mental illness.
National School Safety
Center
The National School Safety Center was created by
presidential directive in 1984 to meet the growing need for additional training and
preparation in the area of school crime and violence prevention. Affiliated with
Pepperdine University, NSSC is a nonprofit organization whose charge is to promote safe
schools - free of crime and violence - and to help ensure quality education for all
America's children.
National Youth Gang
Center
The purpose of the NYGC is to expand and maintain the body
of critical knowledge about youth gangs and effective responses to them. The Center
assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of
information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising
program strategies. It also coordinates activities of the Office of Juvenile Justice &
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Youth Gang Consortium - a group of federal agencies, gang
program representatives, and service providers.
National Youth
Violence Prevention Resource Center
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center The
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC) was established as a central
source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and
statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens. The Resource Center is
a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Federal
agencies. The NYVPRC Web site www.safeyouth.org and call center 1-866-SAFEYOUTH (723-3968)
serve as a user-friendly, single point of access to Federal information on youth violence
prevention and suicide.
Office for Civil
Rights (ED)
The mission of the Office for Civil Rights is to ensure
equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation
through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. A primary responsibility is resolving
complaints of discrimination. Agency-initiated cases, typically called compliance reviews,
permit OCR to target resources on compliance problems that appear particularly acute. OCR
also provides technical assistance to help institutions achieve voluntary compliance with
the civil rights laws that OCR enforces. In addition, OCR provides support to other
Department of Education programs.
Office of
Educational Research and Improvement (ED)
The Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)
provides national leadership for educational research and statistics. OERI strives
to promote excellence and equity in American education by:
- conducting research and demonstration projects funded
through grants to help improve education;
- collecting statistics on the status and progress of schools
and education throughout the nation; and
- distributing information and providing technical assistance
to those working to improve education.
Office of Juvenile
Justice & Delinquency Prevention (DOJ)
OJJDP provides Federal leadership, through a comprehensive,
coordinated approach, to prevent and control juvenile crime and improve the juvenile
justice system.
Office
of Special Education Programs (ED)
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) provides
leadership and fiscal resources to assist State and local efforts to educate children with
disabilities in order to improve results for those children and to ensure equal protection
of the law. Its programs assist public agencies to provide all infants, toddlers,
children, and youth with disabilities early intervention services and a free appropriate
public education which emphasizes challenging standards and access to the general
curriculum to the extent appropriate. These programs are intended to assure that the
rights of infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their parents are
protected.
Oregon Social Learning Center
The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) is a non-profit,
independent research center located in Eugene/Springfield, Oregon dedicated to finding
ways to help children and parents as they cope with the day-to-day problems that arise
during life in the 1990's. Since 1990, we have also served as a National Institute of
Mental Health Prevention Research Center. Our research focuses primarily on factors
related to the family, peer group and school experience which contribute to healthy social
adjustment in key settings, including the home, school, and the community during
childhood, and the workplace, intimate relationships and parenthood during adulthood. We
also work to identify factors which lead to problems at different stages of life, such as
temper tantrums and misbehavior in childhood, delinquency and substance use in
adolescence, and failed relationships in adulthood.
Partnerships Against
Violence Network
PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of
information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different
Federal agencies. It is a "one-stop," searchable, information resource to help
reduce redundancy in information management and provide clear and comprehensive access to
information for States and local communities
Preventing Crime
PreventingCrime.Org is providing Internet access to what
the New York Times calls "the most comprehensive study ever of crime
prevention," the University of Maryland's Congressionally-mandated study,
"Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising" You can search
the full study online, or read the best summary of the report by the National Institute of
Justice.
Prevention
Science Clearinghouse
Prevention science comprises scientific efforts supporting
the development of interventions that prevent the development of problematic
psychological, social, and/or physical outcomes or disorders in individuals across the
lifespan. This site provides links to research funded by 14 public and private national
research organizations.
Regional
Education Laboratories
Regional Education Laboratories is a map of links to all
ten laboratories supported by the U.S. Education Department to provide technical
assistance to educators: NCREL, McREL, AEL, WestEd, SEDL, PREL, SERVE, NWREL, LSS, and
LAB.
The Regional
Resource & Federal Centers (RRFC) Network
The RRFC Network comprises the six Regional Resource
Centers for Special Education and the Federal Resource Center for Special Education. The
RRFC Network offers tools and strategies that identify appropriate solutions for effective
education and human services delivery systems, serving all states and outlying
jurisdictions. The link above will take you to a clickable map of the six regional
centers.
Safe and
Drug-Free Schools Programs Office (ED)
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. We support
initiatives to meet the seventh National Education Goal, which states that by the year
2000 all schools will be free of drugs and violence and the unauthorized presence of
firearms and alcohol, and offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning. These
initiatives are 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.
Improving
America's Schools Conference School Environment Institute
"School environment" encompasses school culture
(tradition, values, beliefs) and climate (physical, academic, organization,
socio-emotional, and demographics). Schools that have safe and healthy environments are
inclusive, involve parents and the community, respect individual student differences, and
recognize that students have diverse strengths, needs, interests and learning
styles. Toward that end, the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the
1998 Regional Conferences on Improving America's Schools, scheduled in three locations
this fall.
School Mental Health
Project/Center for Mental Health in Schools (UCLA)
The Center's mission is to improve outcomes for young
people by enhancing policies, programs and practices relevant to mental health in schools,
with specific attention to strategies that can counter fragmentation and enhance
collaboration between school and community programs.
Search Institute
The Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit
organization committed not only to contributing to the knowledge base about youth
development, but also committed to translating high-quality research on children and youth
into practical ideas, tools, services, and resources for families, neighborhoods, schools,
organizations, and communities.
Social
Development Research Group
SDRG's research focuses on the prevention and treatment of
health and behavior problems among young people. Drug abuse, delinquency, risky sexual
behavior, violence, and school dropout are among the problems addressed. J. David Hawkins,
director, and Richard F. Catalano, associate director, began in 1979 to develop the Social
Development Strategy, which provides the theoretical basis for risk- and
protective-focused prevention that underlies much of the groups' research.
Society for
Prevention Research
The Society for Prevention Research is a professional
organization focused upon the advancement of science-based prevention programs and
policies through empirical research. The membership of the organization consists of
scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who are concerned
with problems, issues, and challenges pertaining to the prevention of public health and
social problems such as drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and abuse; psychiatric disorders,
other mental health problems and related comorbidities; suicide; HIV/AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases; delinquency, crime, and violence; child abuse; marital and
couple distress; adolescent pregnancy; and school and work participation and performance.
Student Pledge Against Gun
Violence
The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence will be observed in
schools throughout the country on October 21st 1999, a Day of National Concern about Young
People and Gun Violence.
VincentWeb
(Violence and Injury Control through Education, Networking and Training on the Web)
Free distance learning course that offers an introduction
to injury control and violence prevention supported by Injury Prevention Research Center,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Violence Prevention
Programs
The Division of Public
Health Practice, Violence Prevention Programs seeks to provide innovative
opportunities for developing and assisting in the implementation of programs as well as
informing the development of evaluation strategies to ensure safer communities.
Violence Prevention Programs (VPP) is an umbrella for many different initiatives. Program
staff, led by Dr. Prothrow-Stith and Marie Burke, JD, Director of Violence Prevention
Programs, coordinate the Program’s efforts to disseminate helpful information,
provide technical support, and implement violence prevention training for youth and
adults. VPP works with entities including the US Department of Education, US Department of
Justice, and the US Department of Health and Human Services as well as non-private
agencies, to achieve program objectives. VPP has sponsored several national training on
violence prevention. The latest training initiative is Partnerships for Preventing
Violence, an innovative program utilizing the latest in distance learning technology.
VPP also participates in a variety of community-based
initiatives and is currently working with the Boston Public Schools on two innovative
projects, one focusing on the creation of a violence prevention curriculum by and for
young women, the other focusing on the development of a violence prevention program for
elementary school age children. In 1996, VPP sponsored the National Forum for Survivors of
Violence, which has since developed into the National Coalition of Survivors for Violence
Prevention, Inc., the focus of which is to develop violence prevention education and
policy. VPP has done additional work attempting to enhance knowledge regarding the
national array of violence prevention programs by creating Peace by Piece: a Violence
Prevention Guide for Communities.
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