Consortium to Prevent School Violence

The Consortium will develop a series of Fact Sheets addressing critical topics related to school violence. Emphasizing brevity and current research, each Fact Sheet will present readers with the most relevant and reliable information on the respective topic. The primary purposes of the Fact Sheets are to

1. provide teachers, school administrators, parents, and other stakeholders with concise, understandable, and usable research-based recommendations, and
2. help readers decide if the topic is one that they would like to learn more about.

Using an easy-to-read and concise bulleted format, each Fact Sheet will highlight key background information and related issues for that topic, present a concise summary of research findings, offer general recommendations and cautions for applying the information, and give a list of useful resources.

A list of forthcoming fact sheets and the first seven fact sheets in the series may be downloaded here:

Fact Sheet List

Fact Sheet 1: Overview of School Violence Prevention (Revised)

Fact Sheet 2: Bullying Prevention

Fact Sheet 3: Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools

Fact Sheet 4: Anger Management in Schools

Fact Sheet 5: School Resource Officers

 NEW  Fact Sheet 6: Student Uniforms

 NEW  Fact Sheet 7: School Climate

The CPSV has engaged teams of leading researchers to develop a series of 10-page research briefs. The research briefs are designed to summarize extant knowledge on a variety of important focus topics related to school violence. The briefs will be designed for an end-user audience of school staff, local school and school district administrators, professional training personnel, and policymakers and legislators, at the state and federal level.

The Consortium should begin posting research briefs in Spring, 2009. The table below contains a list of initial research brief projects.

TOPIC	RESEARCHERS
School Resource Officers	Matthew J. Mayer Rutgers University Michael J. Furlong University of California, Santa Barbara
Interagency Collaboration in Individual Case Management of High-Risk Youth To Reduce School Violence and Disruption	David Osher Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health & National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
Legal Issues in School Violence and Disruption	Mitchell Yell University of South Carolina Michael Rozalski SUNY Geneseo
Bullying Prevention	Sue Limber Clemson University
Reducing School Violence and Disruption Through Positive Behavioral Supports	George Sugai University of Connecticut Hill Walker University of Oregon Rob Horner University of Oregon
Social Skills Instruction to Reduce Disruptive and Violent Behaviors in School	Susan Fread Albrecht Ball State University Sarup Mathur Arizona State University Mark Mostert Regent University
School Violence Threat Assessment	Dewey Cornell University of Virginia Michael J. Furlong University of California, Santa Barbara Jill D. Sharkey University of California, Santa Barbara Douglas C. Smith University of Hawaii
The Intersection of Academic and Behavioral Problems that Contribute to School Violence and Disorder	Kathleen Lane Vanderbilt University Karen Harris Vanderbilt University Steve Graham Vanderbilt University
Zero Tolerance Approaches and School Violence and Disruption	Russell Skiba Indiana University
Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions To Reduce Anger/Aggression of Students in Schools	John E. Lochman University of Alabama Stephen Smith University of Florida
Meta-Analytic Findings for School Violence Related Prevention Programs	Sandra Jo Wilson Vanderbilt University Mark Lipsey Vanderbilt University
Evidence-Based Prevention for Anxiety Problems Associated with Disruptive Behaviors	Thomas H. Ollendick Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

The Consortium To Prevent School Violence has launched a collaborative effort among researchers, practitioners, and professional trainers nationally, to assemble easy-to-use staff training PowerPoints for school violence prevention. These PowerPoints, which include speaker notes and support resources, will be designed for use in schools, local youth service agencies, and other organizations concerned with school violence. The Training PowerPoints will be designed for use by professional trainers who may have general, but not highly specific knowledge of school violence prevention. The PowerPoints will be geared to support short, medium, and longer training sessions for use in in-service programs, workshops, and other professional training venues.

All of the materials will be released into the public domain for non-commercial use. As with other Consortium materials made available to the public, the PowerPoints will go through a thorough review process by the CPSV expert panel.

The Consortium is currently in discussions with university research faculty over the development of a video in which national experts share key lessons learned from school violence prevention research and practice. The video, as envisioned, approximately 35-40 minutes in length, will feature approximately 15 national experts, each briefly highlighting important bottom line findings. The video will be developed along critical themes such as school wide programming, early intervention, fostering connectedness, providing mental health and other supports, threat assessment, and crisis management.