PREVENTING AND REDUCING SCHOOL VIOLENCE FACT SHEETS

With support from Children's Safety Network, Prevention Institute developed a set of school violence prevention fact sheets in September 2001. There are a total of eight fact sheets aimed to support the development of comprehensive school violence prevention efforts, and each is described below. The fact sheets have been reviewed by school violence prevention staff, adolescent health coordinators, and maternal and child health practitioners. Reviewers found the fact sheets to be useful for a broad range of professionals who are interested in preventing school violence.

How Maternal and Child Health Practitioners Can Help Prevent School Violence
Provides a tool, the Spectrum of Prevention, to develop comprehensive school violence prevention efforts and focuses on the role of maternal and child practitioners in school violence prevention.

What is the Extent of the Problem of School Violence?
Provides data about prevalence and impact.

Strategies, Resources, and Contacts for Developing Comprehensive School Violence Prevention Programs
Delineates characteristics of effective programs, examples of effective initiatives and selected curricula and programs, and provides additional resources and contacts.

What Factors Increase the Risk of Being Involved in Violence?
Delineates individual, school, community, and underlying risk factors associated with an increased risk that an individual, school, or community will experience violence.

What Factors Foster Resiliency Against Violence?
Delineates individual, school, and community factors that are protective against individuals, schools, and communities experiencing violence. Also gives examples of activities that foster resiliency and further resources.

How Are Different Forms of Violence Interrelated?
Provides data about the interrelationship between youth violence, domestic violence, and child abuse.

What Are the Similarities and Differences between Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention?
Describes similarities and differences between these overlapping approaches to school violence prevention.

Where Can Practitioners Find Reliable Data on School Violence?
Provides data sources for youth-risk behavior, school crime and violence, and non-school crime and violence.

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