It is critical to take a multi-faceted approach to prevent and reduce truancy. This webinar will feature positive and collaborative approaches to addressing truancy. Specifically, it will showcase characteristics of effective truancy prevention and intervention programs that have encouraged students to attend school consistently and take increased ownership in their education. This archived webinar will focus on how the use of discretionary discipline practices focused on prevention and early intervention can transform schools into supportive learning environments for all students.
Presenters will describe the multi-tiered behavioral health prevention framework and share community examples of how schools and secure care facilities are applying the framework to create more supportive discipline policies and practices. Leading up to the most recent school tragedy and the subsequent call for increasing the number of school resource officers SROs , growing evidence indicates the need for. It is critical, then, that we take what the field has learned and apply it to the development of high quality partnerships between SROs and America's schools via thoughtful planning, training and practice.
Making the Case for Positive Approaches to Discipline. This archived webinar will examine the impact of punitive and exclusionary school discipline approaches and identify traditional school discipline practices that are known to be ineffective.
It will also showcase community examples of positive alternatives to school discipline that reduce student alienation, increase student engagement, and decrease justice system involvement. This Webinar provided the knowledge that school, district, residential facility, and court staff, law enforcement and legal personnel, youth, families, and other community stakeholders need to better understand how restorative justice principles, when applied to school discipline practices, can stem the school-to-prison pipeline.
With the potential of teaching conflict resolution skills, fostering understanding and empathy, and building stronger relationships in schools and communities, restorative justice has proven to be an effective alternative to punitive and exclusionary responses to problem student behavior. This Webinar will provide the knowledge that school, district, and court staff, law enforcement and legal personnel, youth, families, and other community stakeholders need to better understand the impact of exposure to trauma on youth behavior, how some discipline responses can traumatize or re-traumatize youth, and trauma-informed alternatives.
In addition, the behavioral impact of trauma on youth with disabilities will be explained. By better understanding the impact of trauma, and the inter-relationship of trauma and disability, schools can use discipline practices that support students, foster their success, and keep them out of the justice system.
The webinar will provide the knowledge participants need to better understand how the use of youth courts in schools can ensure offender accountability while offering fair and restorative consequences for discipline infractions. By directing lower level cases away from the formal justice system, youth courts can be an integral part of a school's supportive disciplinary process, serving as an alternative to traditional disciplinary measures such as suspension and detention.
This compilation presents school discipline-related laws and regulations for U. The discipline laws and regulations presented in this compilation have been categorized by type of specific discipline issue covered, according to an organizational framework developed by the National Center for Safe and Supportive Learning Environments NCSSLE. These Rules were developed in accordance with C. Specific statutory authority for the development of these Rules comes from C.
These Rules outline the procedures to be followed in the administration of restraint, staff training, documentation requirements, and the review of the use of restraint.
A Dear Colleague Letter to provide significant guidance for schools and other agencies to clarify their responsibility under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IDEA to provide children with disabilities appropriate behavioral interventions and supports that are necessary to ensure they have meaningful access to their education.
Doing so ensures that eligible children with disabilities who have behavioral needs receive a free appropriate public education FAPE and placement in the least restrictive environment LRE. School Climate and Discipline. All Resource Index Scroll-to-Top. Web Link Disclaimer: The Colorado School Safety Resource Center CSSRC provides links from this site to external websites because of their potential interest or usefulness to the safe and positive school environment, an education community or the general public.
It attempts to monitor such sites on a regular basis. Further, by linking to other sites, the CSSRC is not endorsing any particular product, practice, service, provider or institution, nor does it necessarily endorse views expressed or facts presented on these sites. In addition, neither the CSSRC nor any of its employees, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information linked to from this site.
Home Discipline in Schools Discipline in Schools. Since , the Manual has been a source of information on the legal tools available to school administrators and personnel committed to creating a safe learning environment and preventing school-related violence. The entire Manual has been refreshed and new material added. Colorado Dept. Student Conduct, Discipline and Attendance Code. Development and Revision Process.
Board Policy Flow Chart. Although schools have a relatively low rate of violent crime in comparison to other settings, concerns about school shootings have stimulated increased school security and use of zero tolerance discipline.
School threat assessment is a more proactive and flexible violence prevention practice that is used when an individual threatens to commit a. STRYVE is a guide for communities, states and the country to use in developing and implementing evidence-informed strategies, programs, and policies for stopping violence before it occurs using a public health approach. STRYVE articulates a multidisciplinary, multi-component, and coordinated strategic plan of action to increase the potential effectiveness and efficacy of youth violence prevention.
STRYVE Online Training is designed to help individuals, groups, organizations, and communities become acquainted with the key concepts and strategies of youth violence prevention. Children's Safety Network. We work with states and territories to infuse knowledge, expertise, and leadership to reduce injury, hospitalization, disability and death for all children and youth. Safe2Tell is an anonymous reporting service to use regarding threatening behavior that endangers you, your friends, your family, or your community.
The manual addresses the legal issues surrounding reporting, search and seizure, disciplinary actions, and school policies. The manual was updated in January, The Colorado Attorney General's School Safety Guide provides information on the best practices and evidence-based programs for promoting safety and preventing violence in school settings. The guide is breaking new ground by using lessons learned to identify and promote best practices for school safety.
The guide prioritizes the programs and practices shown to be most effective based on research, making it both distinct from and a compliment to other school safety resources in Colorado e.
The Safe Communities Safe Schools Initiative offers a variety of instruments, free of charge to Colorado schools, to help administrators better understand their school's strengths and needs. In addition to our Pre-Planning Assessment Checklists, which contains tools to aid school-community planning teams in identifying areas of strength and weakness that could affect school and community safety, our Barometers of School Safety include school climate surveys as well as a school safety and security assessment.
The Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence offers training, technical assistance and other resources to domestic violence programs across the state. Published in the Journal of Adolescent Health , January The study found that Health risk behaviors included violence, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors contributing to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, inadequate physical activity and unhealthy dietary behaviors.
The study highlights the importance of leaders in education and health working together to make wise investments in our nation's school-aged youth that will benefit the entire population. Preventing gang affiliation i. Previous research has focused on identifying risk factors for gang affiliation, however, little information is available on protective factors.
Conclusions: The findings suggest the potential benefit of increasing parental monitoring and coping skills and reducing delinquency, alcohol use and drug use to prevent gang affiliation. Purpose of the Commission was to conduct an independent review of the tragedy and make recommendations to prevent further tragedies in the future.
This is the May final report. The 10 year anniversary of the Columbine shootings was an ideal time to highlight the efforts schools were taking to support students and improve school safety. These publications from the National Association of School Psychologists provided tips.
Comprehensive Gang Model. In , the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJJDP began supporting a research and development project to design a comprehensive approach to reduce and prevent youth gang violence. The initial phase of this project was directed by Dr.
Irving Spergel at the University of Chicago. The OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model Model calls for five core strategies to be delivered through an integrated approach from a team of community agencies and organizations.
The five strategies are:. Learn more here about: gang definitions, gang activity and prevalence, anti-gang strategies, gang membership as a prosecution enhancement, research and evaluation projects on gangs. Written by some of the nation's top criminal justice and public health researchers, Changing Course, offers evidence-based principles that can halt the cascading impact of gangs on youth, families, neighborhoods and society at large.
Since , the National Gang Center NGC has conducted an annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the United States. Numerous charts and descriptions are provided as a resource for understanding gang problems. Safe Schools - Healthy Students Initiative.
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