Educational Tools/Resources

• CSAP's The ABC's of Bullying 
  This online course is designed for professionals and examines the causes and effects of bullying, prevention techniques and programs, screening, treatment options, and legal/ethical issues.
• NSSC's Checklist of Characteristics of Youth Who Have Caused School-Associated Violent Deaths (1998)
  This is the National School Safety Center's checklist of behaviors which could indicate a youth's potential for harming him/herself or others.
• NWREL's Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools (2002)
  This set of eight guidebooks is intended to help educators obtain current, useful information on topics relevant to comprehensive safe school planning efforts.
• SCCEYVP's Training Modules: Violence and Disruption in School and the Community (2002)
  The three PowerPoint presentations presented here are designed for professional staff training and are samples from a CD-ROM. The topics include: General Understanding About School Violence and Disruption; Research Approaches to School Violence; and Family Level Issues and Prevention/Intervention. 
• USDE's Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools (1998)
• USDOJ's Preventing Youth Hate Crime: A Manual for Schools and Communities (1999)
  This manual identifies elements of effective school-based hate prevention programs and describes programs, activities, organizations and other resources schools may consider for use in their communities.
• USSS/USDE's Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates (2002)
  This guide details threat assessment process in schools, including how to identify students with the potential for school violence, conduct a threat assessment investigation, and manage threatening situations.) 

Reports/Publications

• Bullying Prevention is Crime Prevention (2003)
  This report by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids discusses the link between bullying and crime/violence, and presents programs that have proven to reduce bullying.
• Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Programs 2001 (2002)
  This U.S. Department of Education report provides a description and contact information for 9 exemplary and 33 promising programs selected by an expert panel.
• Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for Prevention of School Attacks in the United States (2002)
  This U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education report details findings of a study of school shootings and other school-based attacks to identify information that may be noticed beforehand to prevent school-based attacks.
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2003 (2003)
  A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, this report presents data on crime occurring in school and on the way to/from school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population.
• NSSC Review of School Safety Research (2001)
  This National School Safety Center report summarizes studies on school safety and school climate.
• School Associated Violent Deaths (2004)
  This National School Safety Center report covers all reported school-associated violent deaths from the 1992-93 school year to the present.
• School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence (2001)
  This CDC research-based report summarizes school health recommendations for preventing unintentional injury, violence and suicide among young persons.
• The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective (2000)
  This FBI report presents a systematic procedure for threat assessment and intervention for use by educators, law enforcement and others involved in school safety.
• Violence-Related Behaviors Among High School Students -- United States, 1991-2003 (2004)
  This CDC report summarizes results of an analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Survey data to examine changes in violence-related behaviors among high school students.
• Wide Scope, Questionable Quality: Three Reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention (2002) 
  These reports provide findings of a federally funded study to investigate the extent of problem behavior in schools nationally, and several aspects of delinquency prevention efforts in schools.

Links to Other Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Violence Prevention
  provides violence prevention resources for physicians and parents, including a searchable Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Database
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
  provides an extensive collection of links to Web resources on issues of emotional and behavioral problems in children and youth, and a School Violence Prevention and Intervention issue area offering pertinent documents
• Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence
  offers information about school violence, including  literature reviews, research papers, a violence prevention resources database, a programs database, state level data, and a compendium of surveys to assess school/youth violence
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  offers justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development; hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world
• National School Safety Center (NSSC)
  provides school communities with information, consultation, training services, the School Associated Violent Death Report, and other resources
• Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, U.S. Dept. Ed.
  administers policy for improving programs designed to support student drug and violence prevention activities; offers reports and publications, programs and initiatives
• Safetyzone, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
  offers a clearinghouse for information related to school safety, with an online library containing articles, publications and multimedia resources
• School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS), CDC
  provides the results of CDC's national survey on school health policies and programs, including those related to violence prevention and suicide prevention.
• Take a Stand. Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now!,  U.S. Dept. HHS
  offers information and resources for youth, parents, professionals, and the media, for this national public health campaign to reduce and prevent bullying