Safe Schools Grant

Alternative Schools Network Association (ASNA) is an association of non-profit and public schools and agencies concerned about quality educational opportunities for all students.  This site includes the “White Paper,” which contains response and recommendations for students at risk of school failure.  You can also find Dr. Jerry Miller’s ASNA Conference presentation, “Social and Economic Benefits of Alternative Schools.”

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers information on how parents can help their children after a disaster.

American Psychological Association contains a spectrum of resources for students, parents and educators.  Some topics include career planning and management of traumatic stress.

American School Counselor Association offers various resources on violence, school crises, and safety.

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention:  A Sourcebook for Community Action reviews the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas:  parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring.

Bioterrorism Resources: A variety of resources to help schools understand the threat of bioterrorism and ways to plan to address the issues surrounding the topic.

Blueprints contains information about model violence-prevention programs, bullying, family therapy, and training.

California Department of Education provides links to resources for bullying prevention, guidance and counseling, and other topics related to safe schools.

CCSSO Provides Violence and School Safety Information and Resources to States:  The Council of Chief State School Officers has reviewed materials from various sources for use by Chiefs and state education staff members.  The following resources are cited as possible locations for assistance and/or information:  

Center for Safe Schools, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Education, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 Phone: 816/235-5656 Wide variety of resources and information on management schools, student identification/selection, evaluation and safe schools curriculum.

Center for Schools and Communities seeks effective solutions to problems that disrupt the educational process and affect school safety.  Provide training, technical assistance and a clearinghouse of video and print materials to help schools.  Phone:   714/763-1661.

Character Education Network helps teachers, schools and communities facilitate character education.  It provides ready-to-use curriculum, activities and resources to integrate into the classroom experience.

Character Education Partnership offers resources and information regarding K-12 character education initiatives.

Character plus, Cooperating School Districts (CSD), Linda McKay, director, 8225 Florissant Road, St. Louis, MO 63121 Phone: 800/478-5684 Information and staff training in character education, lesson plans and activities.

Community of Caring works to implement and encourage five values--caring, responsibility, respect, trust, and family--in our nation's schools.  This site describes the program and explains how to become a Community of Caring school.

Day Treatment Programs, Division of Youth Services, Dennis Gragg, P.O. Box 447, Jefferson City, MO 65102 Phone: 573/751-2799 Information and funding for local juvenile courts on an annual basis for intervention and treatment services.

Department of Public Safety (P.O. Box 749, Jefferson City, MO 65102) offers a couple of helpful resources.

Don't Laugh at Me , 2 Penn Place, 23rd Floor, New York, NY  10121, offers videos and CD's to help promote safe and respectful environments.  Sponsored by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, curricula for various ages are available.

Dropout Prevention, 209 Martin St., Clemson, SC  29634-0726 provides a wide variety of information and model projects in dropout prevention.

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools is a comprehensive guide published by the U.S. Department of Education, August 1998.  The full text of the guide is available.

Family Life Development Center works to improve professional and public efforts to understand and deal with risk factors in the lives of children, youth, families and communities that lead to family violence and neglect.  Phone: 607/255-7794.

Federal Emergency Management Agency targets elementary students with this information regarding natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms.

Federal Programs Entitlement Grants:  Title IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

Hamilton Fish Institute, with assistance from Congress, was founded in 1997 to serve as a national resource to test the effectiveness of school violence prevention methods and to develop more effective strategies.

Hope Foundation offers professional development, videos, and presentations. 

I Pledge is a web site where students can lend their support for gun-free schools.

Keeping Schools and Communities Safe, Provides statistics, funding sources, information from the U. S. Department of Education, publications and a wide variety of other organizations dealing with violence prevention and school safety.

"Keeping Schools Open as Community Learning Centers: Extending Learning in a Safe, Drug-Free Environment Before and After School" gives practical ideas and highlights successful programs for learning activities.

Lightspan's team has compiled informational resources to help children cope with the impact of the tragic events of the September 11 events. Effective immediately, Lightspan is providing vital resources on their free Web site. These resources will help adults find ways to discuss the tragedy with children, and cope with post-disaster stress. They can also find out where to donate blood, or volunteer time to help organizations such as the United Way, the American Red Cross, and others.

Missouri School Boards Association provides political leadership on critical issues through a variety of programs and special projects, including advisories and publications on critical issues; coalitions with other education, local government, and children's organizations; and representation on state and national commissions and advisory committees.

National Alliance for Safe Schools is a not-for-profit research, training and technical assistance organization dedicated to reducing school-based crime and violence.   Phone:  301/935-6063.

National Association of School Resource Officers provides training dates and locations as well as other resources for school resource officers.

National Association of Secondary School Principals works to advance middle level and high school education by focusing attention on the challenges faced by school leaders and providing a "national voice" for them.

National Association of School Psychologists represents more than 17,000 school psychologists and related professionals.  Phone:  301/657-0270.

National Campaign to End School Violence provides resources for communication, education, planning and action against school violence.  Their comprehensive school safety strategies include education, prevention and intervention.

National Crime Prevention Council offers the free resource, "Stopping School Violence."

National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention is supported by several foundations to implement youth violence prevention programs.  Phone:  202/393-7731.

National Mentoring Partnership provides various information on mentor programs including "Youth Friends."

National Resources Center for Safe Schools offers a wide variety of information, assistance, and links to resources.  Phone 800/547-6339, ext 131. 

National School Safety Center, provides a wide range of information on training, risk identification, parent activities and  linkages to multiple resources, and tracks school violence reported in news accounts and collects data on school-associated violent deaths.  Phone: 805/373-9977.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center provides access to Federal information on youth violence and suicide prevention.  NYVPRC is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Federal agencies.

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Handbook for Coping After Terrorism: A Guide to Healing and Recovery provides victims of terrorism with information based on the expertise of mental health, crisis counseling, and victim assistance professionals.

Partners Against Violence Network (PAVNET) offers a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports provide useful information on safety including research on functional behavioral assessments.

Prevention Program provides on-line intervention and assessment manuals for elementary behavior management programs.  The goal of the Prevention Program is to enhance self-esteem and social adaptation as well as to prevent depressive, anxiety and conduct disorders in addition to tobacco and other drug abuse.

Progressive Youth Center, 311 North Lindbergh, St. Louis, MO  63141 (314/993-3566).  PYC offers prevention programs for youth ages 5-18, with the focus on children making positive choices to promote a safe school environment.  Curricula include peer mediation, anger management, healthy relationships, diversity and several other valuable topics.

PsychWorks, Inc. describes methods of coping with emotions after a disaster.

Safe Schools Coalition is a non-profit organization that works to reduce violence and promote health and safety in schools.

School Violence Hotline provides information about Missouri's hotline to report actual or potential acts of violence.  Call 1-866-748-7047.

Show-Me the Videos!, Cooperating School Districts (CSD), St. Louis, Mo  800/835-8282.  Instructional television programs correlated with the Show-Me Standards adopted by the Mo. State Board of Education.  (Example:  "Violence Prevention: What Every Parent Should Know."  Performance Standard Goal 3).

Speak to Children, a nonprofit organization, provides education and support to parents, teachers and children by reinforcing basic values that foster self-awareness and character development. 

State Emergency Management Agency, PO Box 116, Jefferson City, MO 65102, conducts Emergency Management Training Multi-hazard Safety Programs for Schools that train school districts and local emergency management agencies statewide concerning multi-hazard (tornado, school violence, hazardous material accidents, etc.) crises planning.

Successlink provides information on best practices and has videotapes on crises planning available to loan.

Youth Opportunities Program, Department of Economic Development, Brenda Horstman, 301 West High, Room 770, Jefferson City, MO 65101 Phone: 573/751-4539 Tax credits for specific crime prevention activities.