The following documents were produced with the support of the Office of Special Education Programs, Safe and Drug Free Schools Program, the Center for Mental Health Services, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Early Warning, Timely Response - A Guide to Safe Schools.*
This is the document that was released by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice.

Early Warning, Timely Response - A Guide to Safe Schools - the Referenced Edition *
This web-based document includes both the text of the Early Warning Guide as well as references.

• Versiónes en español
• Screenreader accessible text-only version - (135 KB)
  This version is accessible to screenreaders.  It does not contain references.

Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide*
This is the document that was released by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice.

Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide - the Referenced and Hotlinked Edition. *
This web-based referenced and hotlinked edition that expands on the publication by including links to: research, references, and programs and projects featured in the Action Guide.

• Documento de Formato Portátil (PDF) en Español de la Guia de Acción.
  Download the Spanish version of Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide in PDF format (1,084K)
  Requires Adobe Acrobat be installed on your system.

Safe, drug-free, and effective schools for ALL students: What works! A profile of six different approaches to prevention in three communities, including a literature review and focus group review 1998. 

The Role of Education in a System of Care: Effectively Serving Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders, Volume III, Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health, 1998 Series.

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General The first Surgeon General's report on youth violence--is a product of extensive collaboration. It reviews a massive body of research on where, when, and how much youth violence occurs, what causes it, and which of today's many preventive strategies are genuinely effective.
• The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective (IN PDF - 189k)
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation document that is the result of a comprehensive two year study examining violence in our nation's schools. The report was assembled to develop a better understanding of adolescent violence through threat assessment, intervention and prevention methods. 

• Secret Service Safe School Initiative (In PDF 389k) The goal of the Safe School Initiative is to provide accurate and useful information to school administrators, educators, law enforcement professionals and others who have protective and safety responsibilities in schools, to help prevent incidents of school-based targeted violence. 
• Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action (Best Practices). Best Practices is the first of its kind to look at the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring. This publication was developed by the American Institutes for Research's Prospect Institute.

  This publication is available free from the Center for Disease Control's National Center for Injury Prevention & Control's online order form or by calling the toll free hotline 1.888.252.7751.

• The CDC's Inventory of Federal Activities Addressing Violence in Schools
• 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.

• Youth Violence in Urban Communities.  An excellent summary in the Urban Seminar Series on Children's Health and Safety Newsletter on the research and promising ideas for preventing youth violence.
• 2000 Annual Report on School Safety   (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice in pdf! Note this is a LARGE file.   It is 6.4 megs)
• 1999 Annual Report on School Safety   (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice)  
• 1998 Annual Report on School Safety   (U.S. Departments of Education and Justice)  

• Warning Signs: A Violence Prevention Guide for Youth from MTV and the American Psychological Association
• Expert Online Discussion with Kevin Dwyer, Principal Investigator for the Early Warning, Timely Response project - read questions to Kevin Dwyer, who will address them himself or pass them on to other members of the Expert Panel.

CMHS resources on School Violence Prevention:

• A Preview of the New CMHS School Violence Prevention Program: Enhancing Resilience
• Status of Research and Research-Based Programs
• Examples of Exemplary/Promising Programs
• Conference on Mental Health and School Violence, March 4-5, 1999

• "Indicators of School Crime & Safety, 1999." Second annual report on school crime & safety from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) & the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
• Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't and What's Promising from the Justice Information Center. Read it online, download the research in brief (pdf) or download the entire document (large file 1.2 MB)
• White House Conference on School Safety:  Causes and Prevention of Youth Violence
• Safe and Drug Free Schools Report, Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
• Violence & Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
• Safe Futures: A Partnership to Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• The National Agenda for Achieving Better Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
• La Agenda Nacional para Lograr Mejores Resultados Para los Niños y Jóvenes con Desordenes Emocionales Serios, Oficina de Educación Especial (OSEP) (en español)
• The Safe and Drug Free Schools Act

* These guides were produced by the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice of the American Institutes for Research, and the National Association of School Psychologists under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office of Special Education Programs (Grant # H327T60005), under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program provided additional support under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Gun-Free Schools Act.