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Also Try Community Development Conflict Prevention and Mediation Emotional Intelligence Gun Control Helping Children Cope Law-Related Education Risk and Protective Factors Young Leaders Lists Bullying (Awesome Library) Provides suggestions on combating bullying. 1-02 Bullying Links (Telecom New Zealand) Provides a list of resources to prevent or mediate conflict and rejection resulting from bullying. Preventing Youth Violence (Yahoo) Provides articles on methods and approaches to preventing violence among teens. 5-00 Prevention of Violence in Schools (National Network for Family Resiliency) Provides an annotated list of resources for prevention of violence. School Safety Resources (Google) Provides over a dozen resources given a good PageRank by Google. 8-02 Violence Prevention (Community Learning Network) Provides links to resources with symptoms, causes, and suggestions for dealing with violent behavior in youths. Violence in Schools Prevention Resources (Koch Crime Commission) Provides over two dozen sources of information. News -03-24-05 Red Lake High School Incident (CNN News) Describes the shooting incident from the view of one of the students. 3-05 -04-16-07 Worst Mass Shooting in Modern Ameridan History (ABC News) "A tranquil college campus in Virgina became a killing field Monday morning. At least 33 people are dead in the worst mass shooting in modern American history." "Police at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va., said that the shootings happened at a dormitory and then at a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus." 04-07 -04-19-07 How Smart Mobs Coped With a Massacre (MSNBC News) "College’s response to tragedy illustrated how wired world now works." "The way students and teachers passed along information during the Virginia Tech massacre — via cellphone videos and campus-watching Webcams, via text messages and Web bulletin boards — demonstrates how the wired world has changed in the 21st century, one of the prophets of the new age says." 04-07 -10-07-06 Experts: Schools Need to Rethink Security (MSNBC News) "Schools should focus more on listening to kids to deter school attacks, experts say, instead of relying only on physical security." 10-06 -10-07-06 Myths About School Shootings (MSNBC News) "Here are 10 myths about school shootings, compiled by MSNBC.com from a 2002 study by the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education. The researchers studied case files and other primary sources for 37 attacks by current or former students, and also interviewed 10 of the perpetrators." 10-06 -10-15-06 School Shooter's Wife Thanks Amish Community (MSNBC News) "The wife of a gunman who killed five girls and injured five others at an Amish school released a statement thanking the Amish and others in the Lancaster County community for their 'forgiveness, grace and mercy.' " " 'Your love for our family has helped to provide the healing we so desperately need,' she wrote. 'Gifts you've given have touched our hearts in a way no words can describe. ... Your compassion has reached beyond our family, beyond our community, and is changing our world, and for this we sincerely thank you.' " 10-06 Papers -01-25-06 Eye Scan Machine Tested at School (ABC News) "Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation's airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives." 11-05 -03-24-05 Red Lake High School Incident (CNN News) Describes the shooting incident from the view of one of the students. 3-05 -Violence and Crime (NCJRS) Provides the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan. Anger Management (Safe and Responsive Schools - Skiba and McKelvey) Provides suggestions for anger management. 10-02 Articles on Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools (U.S. Department of Education) Provides a resource guide with strategies to prevent or reduce violence in schools, as well as reduce substance abuse. 3-05 Articles on School Safety (Learning Network) Provides over a dozen articles to help parents with school safety issues. 5-01 Assessing Threat - School Violence (CNN - Slobogin) Provides a summary of the results of a study by the U.S. Secret Service to determine how to assess the level of threat of violence in schools. 3-01 Assessing Threat - School Violence (U.S. Secret Service) Provides results of a study to determine how to assess the level of threat of violence in schools. (Uses PDF format.) 3-01 Bullies - Coping With Bullies (Learning Network) Provides 31 strategies suggested by parents to cope with bullies. Not all strategies may be wise. 5-01 Bullies - How to Deal With Bullies (Stay Alert Stay Safe) Provides suggestions for children to handle bullies without using violence. 5-00 Bullying - A definition (Kids Help Line) Provides a definition, data from Australia on the extent of the problem, and a short section on what can be done. Bullying - Avoiding Bullying Behavior (Telecom New Zealand) Provides suggestions on identifying and stopping bullying behvior. Suggests what to do if your own child is identified as a bully. Bullying - What To Do About a Bully (Hermansen Advertising) Suggests what to do about a bully, especially at school. Bullying - What To Do About a Bully (Telecom New Zealand) Suggests what to do about a bully. Communicating About School Safety (Washington State School Directors' Association) Provides guidelines, suggestions, and examples for school administrators to use in communicating policies and procedures related to school violence and safety. 5-01 Conflict Management and Peer Mediation (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Discusses how these approaches can help prevent and reduce violence in schools. Facts on Youth Violence (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Provides basic facts on youth violence and (at the bottom of the page) provides a chart on risk factors at an individual level up to the neighborhood level. 2-00 Gangs and Violence (Teacherpathfinder) Guide to Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools (U.S. Department of Education) Provides a resource guide with strategies to prevent or reduce violence in schools, as well as reduce substance abuse. 1-01 Guidelines for Making Schools Safer (Education World) Provides suggestions and resources for making schools safer. 6-00 Gun Control Debate (Awesome Library) Provides a summary of key positions on the debate regarding gun control. Also provides comments from the Editor. 5-00. Handguns - Voting Records of Legislators (Center to Prevent Handgun Violence) Provides voting records of the U.S. Congress (House and Senate) on key legislation to limit access to handguns or to require safety features to be included. Also provides a listing of pending legislation before the U.S. Congress. Provided in PDF format. 7-00. Law-Related Education (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Discusses the purposes and value of law-related educaiton. Mediation - We Can Work It Out Program (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Describes the We Can Work It Out curriculum. Peer Mediation (Teacherpathfinder) Physical Design and Technology (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Provides suggestions on how a school campus can be evaluated and then made more secure. Preventing Youth Violence (American Academy of Pediatrics) Provides suggestions on raising children to resist violence. 5-00 Prevention of Violence in Schools (National Network for Family Resiliency) Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools. Prevention of Youth Violence (CDC) Projects to Reduce Violence With Youth (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control) Provides descriptions of four programs designed to reduce violence, along with the evaluation results. 2-00 Role Models and Violence (Case Western Reserve - Bailey) Provides results on a research study on the causes of violence in children. 10-99 Safe School Pyramid (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Provides a student-centered model for prevention of violence in schools. Safe Schools (Family Education Network) Provides discussions about what is needed to make schools safer. School Resource Officers (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Provides information about the use of school resource officers on school campuses to help prevent and reduce violence. School Safety (NCREL - Hurwitz, Menacker, and Weldon) Provides views and recommendations on prevention of school violence. School Safety (National Rifle Association) Provides an essay with statistics supporting the position that schools are relatively safe from gun related violence. 5-00. School, Home, and Family Safety (AskaCop.org) "We all have questions about what to do if we are the unfortunate Victim of a crime, how to keep our Family, Home and Schools Safe." 5-05 Self-Help for Kids (Free Spirit Publishing) Provides suggestions on issues that kids encounter, such as bullies and violations of privacy by parents. Staying Safe During an Attack at School (ABC News) "With the help of ABC News safety consultant Bob Stuber and dozens of student volunteers, 'Primetime' set out to see just how effective the lockdown method is." "The school staff and students were asked to behave just as they would if there were an armed intruder in the school. The students filed calmly to their designated classrooms where the teachers locked the doors, turned off the lights and waited for the all-clear signal." "To get an idea of how well the lockdown would work in a real-life situation, Stuber and his assistant Daniel Bauman acted as simulated gunmen the second time around — without telling the students beforehand." "Many of the students made it to their designated classrooms — where again, the teachers locked the doors and turned out the lights." "Stuber says that could be a big mistake during a real crisis." " 'In real life, normal life, the rule is you don't break things,' he said. 'But what they have to be taught is that in a situation like this, where it's life or death, there are no rules.' " "According to Stuber, the key to survival is always to be alert, creative and aware of your environment." 11-05 Strategies for School Safety (Learning Network) Provides 41 suggestions from parents to improve school safety and reduce violence. 5-01 Strategies for School Safety (U.S. Department of Education) Provides a report from 1998 on how to make schools safer. Discusses The Nature and Scope of School Violence, including A National Perspective, Public School Policies and Practices Related to School Safety, and A State and Local Perspective. A second chapter on What Communities Can Do Through Collaboration includes What Communities Can Do, What Schools Can Do, What Students Can Do, What Parents Can Do, What Police and Juvenile Justice Authorities Can Do, What Businesses Can Do, and What Elected Officials and Government Agencies Can Do. A third chapter presents Model Programs related to problems of Aggression and Fighting, Bullying, Family Issues, Gangs, Racial and Other Bias-Related Conflict, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence, Substance Abuse, Truancy and Dropouts, Vandalism, and Weapons. 7-01 Student Behavior and School Violence (Middle School) Provides a comprehensive guide for teachers. 8-01 Students Against Violence Everywhere (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) The S.A.V.E program is student-driven to prevent and reduce violence in schools. Teen Court and Student Court (Center for the Prevention of School Violence) Provides an orientation one form of law-related education, teen court and student court. Suggests that they play a role in preventing and reducing school violence. Violence - Warning Signs (American Psychological Association) Provides symptoms, causes, and suggestions for dealing with violent behavior in youths. Violence in Schools (Hawley) Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools, such as mediation. Warning Signs in Children Related to School Violence (U.S. Department of Education - Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice) Provides key warning signs to help prevent violence. Cautions against using the warning signs to punish, act on stereotypes, or other abuses that may become more common as warning signs become clearer. "It is important to avoid inappropriately labeling or stigmatizing individual students because they appear to fit a specific profile or set of early warning indicators. It's okay to be worried about a child, but it's not okay to overreact and jump to conclusions." 3-01 Washington Sniper Attacks and Tips for Eyewitnesses of Violent Events (FoxNews.com) "Personal safety comes first. If you hear the sound of a gunshot, get down and/or seek cover. Look in the direction of the sound. Make a mental note of persons or vehicles in that area." Make note of the more permanent characteristics of the persons, such as height and weight and the more permanent characteristics of the vehicles, such as make and model. Do not talk to other witnesses or reporters before giving your description to the authorities. 8-02 Research Preventing Youth Violence (Reason Public Policy Institute - Volokh and Snell) Summarizes the results of studies to reduce school violence. 5-00

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