Also Try 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 Physiological Impact Of Video Games (applesforhealth) Researchers at the University of Miami are conducting a new study that measures the biological responses of children while playing video games. 11-19-99. Papers -Safe Schools Guide (CECP) "Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans." Developed by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice and supported by OSEP. 7-01 -Violence and Crime (NCJRS) Provides the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan. Action I Can Take (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Provides resources and general suggestions for helping to prevent youth violence. 2-00 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. 1-01 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 - Many Students Engage In Bullying (applesforhealth) Many students who aren't considered bullies nonetheless admit they taunt and tease other students, partly because of peer pressure, new research shows. 08-27-99. 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. Causes of Youth Violence (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Provides theories on the causes of youth violence and suggests strategies to prevent violence using each theory of causation. 2-00 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 and Myths About Youth Violence (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Helps debunk certain myths about safety. 2-00 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. Gun-Toting Students Are Oldest In Class (applesforhealth) New research concludes older students in grades 9 through 11 are more than twice as likely as younger classmates to carry guns to school. 06-04-99. 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 (ERIC) Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools. 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 Violence Prevention Guide (applesforhealth) In light of the tragic school violence across the nation, students, parents and teachers may be looking for information on how to prevent school violence before it starts. The American Psychological Association and MTV,Music Television, have co-produced a "Warning Signs" guide that will further help young people recognize when a classmate or friend might be a potential danger to themselves or others. The guide can be obtained by calling the APA at (800) 268-0078 or by logging on to APA's consumer Help Center. 01-28-00. Self-Help for Kids (Free Spirit Publishing) Provides suggestions on issues that kids encounter, such as bullies and violations of privacy by parents. 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. Teens - The Company They Keep (applesforhealth) Recent tragic events such as school shootings have presented us with images of adolescent aggressive and antisocial behavior. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is now having some very practical payoff for just these vexing problems. 11-26-99. Troubled Boys Likely To Act Violently (applesforhealth) While violence in American schools overall is on the decline, troubled middle and high school boys are likely to keep acting out violently, psychologists specializing in violence say. 09-03-99. 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 Research -Prevention of Violence in Schools - Programs Proven Effective (Wahler, Fetsch, and Silliman) Provides (at the end of the paper) a description of 23 programs, by grade level, that have proven effective in preventing violence. The authors reviewed reviews of literature and summarized the 23 most effective programs out of the 380 programs included in the studies. Preventing Youth Violence (Reason Public Policy Institute - Volokh and Snell) Summarizes the results of studies to reduce school violence. 5-00 Worksheets Fire Safety Worksheets for Elementary Level Students (Comp Ed - Free Worksheets) Provides over a dozen worksheets for ages 6-9. 3-00

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