Safe Schools Program

Program Goals

• Establish a clearinghouse of information and materials concerning violence prevention.
• Manage School Safety Resource Library for KVEC member district use.
• Provide/Coordinate training, technical assistance, and program development to schools and communities.
• Assist districts with analyzing the data collected in compliance with Section 5 of HB330.
• Evaluate existing and developmental school safety programs.
• Provide on-site technical assistance and program review.
• Promote interagency efforts to address school discipline and safety issues in collaboration with other post-secondary institutions and juvenile delinquency prevention councils.
• Provide grant-writing technical assistance for projects related to safe and drug free learning environments.
• Prepare and disseminate information regarding best practices in creating safe and effective schools.

Recognized Trainer for:

• Second Step (A Violence Prevention Program)
• The Effective Teacher (Harry Wong)
• Bus Discipline, A Positive Approach
• Cafeteria Discipline
• Community Involvement
• Role of the Para Professional
• Substitutes, (Bus, Academic) Planning for Productivity and Consistency
• Drug Awareness/Prevention for certified staff, classified staff, students and parents
• SBDM council members
• SBDM Principal Selection

"Together, we will provide a safe, secure learning environment

for our school communitites"

Library Topics Include:

• Peace Talks – A 10-part violence prevention series
• STP: Stop, Think, Plan – A school Wide Strategy for teaching conflict resolution skills.
• RETHINK - Anger Management for Parents
• ASSET – A Social Skills Program for Adolescents
• The Effective Teacher by Harry Wong
• CHAMPS – Proactive & Positive
• Classroom Management, Video Series.
• Foundations – Establishing Positive Discipline Policies
• Options and Consequences – Series of six videos and Teacher’s Guide.
• R.I.D.E. – Resolving Issues Drivers Encounter.
• Managing Acting-Out Behavior
• Understanding, Controlling and Preventing Anger

KVEC’s Safe Schools Program staff are available to provide assistance to your staff, students and parents with an array of topics; we work with the entire school community to keep our schools safe and drug free; please call for more information.

Resources:

crisis manual

School Efforts to Prevent Bullying

Dess Code
Open Arms Grandparents/Acting Parents Raising Children

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