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Lists
- Provides articles on methods and approaches to preventing violence among teens. 5-00
- Provides an annotated list of resources for prevention of violence.
- Provides links to resources with symptoms, causes, and suggestions for dealing with violent behavior in youths.
Papers
- Provides resources and general suggestions for helping to prevent youth violence. 2-00
- Provides suggestions for children to handle bullies without using violence. 5-00
- Provides theories on the causes of youth violence and suggests strategies to prevent violence using each theory of causation. 2-00
- Discusses how these approaches can help prevent and reduce violence in schools.
- Provides a resource guide with strategies to prevent or reduce violence in schools, as well as reduce substance abuse.
- Provides facts about violence in the USA as it relates to teens and weapons and suggestions some methods of prevention.
- Helps debunk certain myths about safety. 2-00
- Provides basic facts on youth violence and (at the bottom of the page) provides a chart on risk factors at an individual level up to the neighborhood level. 2-00
- Discusses the purposes and value of law-related educaiton.
- Describes the We Can Work It Out curriculum.
- Provides suggestions on how a school campus can be evaluated and then made more secure.
- Provides suggestions on raising children to resist violence. 5-00
- Provides articles that suggest ways to reduce or prevent youth violence. 5-00
- Provides the results of an international survey on what should be done to make schools safer.
- Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools.
- Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools.
- Provides descriptions of four programs designed to reduce violence, along with the evaluation results. 2-00
- Provides results on a research study on the causes of violence in children. 10-99
- Provides a student-centered model for prevention of violence in schools.
- Provides discussions about what is needed to make schools safer.
- "Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities identify these warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis response plans." Developed by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice and supported by OSEP. 7-99
- Provides information about the use of school resource officers on school campuses to help prevent and reduce violence.
- Provides views and recommendations on prevention of school violence.
- The S.A.V.E program is student-driven to prevent and reduce violence in schools.
- Provides an orientation one form of law-related education, teen court and student court. Suggests that they play a role in preventing and reducing school violence.
- Provides symptoms, causes, and suggestions for dealing with violent behavior in youths.
- Provides the National Juvenile Justice Action Plan.
- Suggests methods to prevent and reduce violence in schools, such as mediation.
- Provides an essay on how children may be desensitized to violence and suggests strategies to reverse the process.
Projects
- Provides a guide to preventing violence, distributed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquincy Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice. 9-99
- Provides interactive process for students to examine gun control issues from the perspective of a legislator. 9-99
Research
- Summarizes research studies related to the prevalence of youth violence. Also summarizes recommendations resulting from the studies. 5-00
- Summarizes the results of studies to reduce school violence. 5-00
- Provides (at the end of the paper) a description of 23 programs, by grade level, that have proven effective in preventing violence. The authors reviewed reviews of literature and summarized the 23 most effective programs out of the 380 programs included in the studies.
Worksheets
- Provides over a dozen worksheets for ages 6-9. 3-00