Youth Violence Prevention

Student Services Prevention and Wellness Team

Violence Prevention Program Assessment Tool

This assessment tool is designed to assist middle and high schools identify gaps and strengths in their violence prevention program. The indicators within the assessment are recognized as Best Practices in the area of school violence prevention and contain six components: School Environment, Curriculum and Instruction, Student Programs, Pupil Services, Adult Programs, and Family and Community.

Violence Prevention Program Assessment Tool Resources

Introduction to Violence Prevention Program Assessment
Violence Prevention Program Assessment Tool - Hard Copy
Violence Prevention Program Assessment Glossary
Violence Prevention Program Assessment Frequently Asked Questions
Writing Measurable Violence Prevention Outcome Objectives
Web Resources for Violence Prevention Program Assessment
Violence Prevention Program Assessment Tool - Web-based version Note: To access, use your district's AODA Prevention Program Assessment Tool password. If you do not know your district's password, call (608) 267-9240.

Message from the State Superintendent

This edited version of the video introduction given by State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster at the School Crisis Preparedness Conferences in October, 2007, contains helpful information about crisis planning in general.

Children need safe school environments to ensure the highest level of learning can occur. Youth violence can have many different forms, including physical fighting, sexual violence/assault, intimate partner violence, bullying and suicide. Violence can occur against another person, against self and against property. As students, parents and educators it is vital that we take the proper steps to prevent youth violence. The National Youth Violence Prevention Center recommends the following steps:

• Develop a safe school plan.
• Establish before and after school programs.
• Teach conflict resolution skills.
• Ensure youth have positive adult role models.
• Learn to recognize warning signs.
• Enforce school policy.
• Report threats, crime, or suspicious activity.

Financial Support

• Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act grants (Title IV of IASA)

Surveillance and Data Collection

• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (conducted in odd numbered years in cooperation with the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-CDC)
• Gun Free Schools Act expulsion reporting

Additional Links:

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
www.safeyouth.org/scripts/index.asp

Violence Prevention at the Center for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/prevention_at_cdc.htm

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm

Center for the Study of Prevention of Violence
www.colorado.edu/cspv/

Prevention Institute
www.preventioninstitute.org/violenceprev.html

For questions about this information, contact Joan G. Lerman (608) 266-2829

Last updated on 7/16/2008 3:29:56 PM