1.	School Safety
	Warning Signs Of A Troubled Child
	What Parents Can Do
	What Students Can Do
	What Teachers Can Do
	What Can Police Do
	What Principals Can Do
2.	College Safety

• Lack of interest in school
• Few age-appropriate behavior control skills.
• Feeling constantly victimized.
• Reluctance or refusal to follow rules on a regular basis.
• Cruelty to pets or other animals
• Artwork or writing that is bleak or violent or that depicts isolation or anger
• Talking constantly about weapons or violence.
• Obsessions with violent games, music, movies and TV show.
• Depression.
• Too low or too high self-esteem.
• Frequent mood swings.
• History of bullying.
• Misplaced or unwarranted jealousy.
• Involvement with or interest in gangs.
• No friends.
• Withdrawal from family and friends
• Talking about bringing weapons to school
• Brings weapons to school.
• Childhood abuse or neglect.
• Witnessing violence at home.
• Early involvement with drugs and alcohol
• Association with antisocial peer groups

1. If you have firearms in your house, teach your children about responsibility.
2. Know what going on with kid's school. Get involved.
3. You are your children's most important role models. React calmly.
4. Talk with your kids and know what's going on with them.
5. Set clear behavior boundaries for your children.
6. Talk about issues of violence with your children.
7. Help your children learn how to examine and find solutions to problems.
8. Discourage name-calling and teasing.
9. Insist on knowing your children's friends, whereabouts, and activities.
10. Work with other parents to develop standards for school-related events.

1. Never bring a weapon to school.
2. Report any suspicious talk or activity to teachers.
3. Find ways to settle arguments without fighting.
4. Support peer mediation and teen court programs.
5. Mentor a younger student.
6. Stand tall against racism or bullying behavior.
7. Welcome new students.

1. Report all threats, talk of weapons or obvious gang activity.
2. Set strict boundaries for classroom behavior.
3. Learn to recognize the warning signs of troubled students.
4. Encourage students in anti-violence activities.
5. Firmly enforce school behavior policies.
6. Demand that students respect you and each other.
7. Teach conflict resolution and anger management skills.
8. Encourage students to report crimes or activities that make them suspicious.

1. Get to know students in a non-threatening context.
2. Offer to train teachers, staff, and students in personal safety.
3. Help students learn about the costs of violence to their community.
4. Explain the state's juvenile and criminal justice systems to teachers and students.
5. Share training opportunities through your department with school security personnel.
6. Work to include school personnel in prevention programs against gang and weapons.
7. Work with school officials to ID and find truants.
8. Work with community groups.

1. Establish "zero tolerance" policies for weapons and violence.
2. Work with staff to ID at-risk children and families.
3. Establish a faculty-student-staff committee to develop a Safe School Plan.
4. Work with law enforcement on access to the school building, reporting of crimes, arrests, and other key issues.
5. Offer training in stress relief, mediation, moral reasoning, anger-management, self-control and related violence prevention skills to staff and teachers. Help them identify ways to pass these skills along to students. Make sure students are getting training.
6. Involve every group within the school community - faculty, professional staff, custodial staff, students, and others - in setting up solutions to violence. Keep lines of communication open to all kinds of student groups and cliques.
7. Develop ways to make it easier for parents to be involved in the lives of their students.
8. Work with community groups and law enforcement to create safe corridors for travel to and from school; even older students will stay home rather than face a bully or some other threat of violence. Help with efforts to identify and eliminate neighborhood trouble spots.
9. Reward good behavior.
10. Insist that your faculty and staff treat each other and students the way they want to be treated -- with respect, courtesy, and thoughtfulness. Be the chief role model.
11. Develop and sustain a network with health care, mental health, counseling, and social work resources in your community. Make sure that teachers, counselors, coaches, and other adults in the school know how to connect a needy student with available resources.
12. Ensure that students learn violence prevention techniques throughout their school experience. Don't make it a one-time thing. Infuse the training into an array of subjects. Draw from established, tested curricula whenever possible.
13. Consider establishing such policies as mandatory storage of outerwear in lockers (to reduce chances of weapons concealment) mesh or clear backpacks and duffle bags (to increase visibility of contraband); and limited entry access to the building (to reduce inappropriate visitors).

• Size of campus police force
• Crime rate for surrounding area
• Crime on campus reports
• Lighting and locks and emergency phones

• Is lighting adequate
• Are doors and windows kept locked
• Are there emergency phones or pay phones
• Are strangers challenged
• Are other students serious about security
• Discuss security plans with roommates

• Leave 30 minutes before closing
• Made sure the bartender or waitress hands you your drink
• Don't leave your drink unattended

• At a party - pour your own or watch your drink being poured
• Learn the security rules, hours, and procedures.
• Report breeches of security immediately to appropriate authorities.
• Don't loan your key or ID card to anyone.
• Report any problem with your lock for maintenance attention.
• Investigate if homeowner's insurance covers your belongings at college.
• Label your personal property.
• Don't keep cash or valuables in plain sight.
• Lock your bicycle.
• Follow all security and fire recommendations for homes and offices.
• Consider taking self-defense courses.
• Don't permit access to blank checks or credit cards.
• Always lock your room door and windows.
• If sharing a restroom, lock your door and take your key.
• Avoid walking alone, especially after dark.
• Avoid being left alone on a "blind" or double date with someone you don't know.
• Do not accompany your date to his/her room without other friends present.
• Always trust your instincts.
• Do not be afraid to be rude, direct and honest. "No" means NO!
• Think before you drink!
• Watch your backpack and textbooks.
• Terminate immediately and report any harassing emails or phone calls.
• Do not post information on your whereabouts on your dorm or room door.
• Report any stranger in your residence hall.
• Always be aware of your surroundings.
• Talk with a friend about strategies you might use in various situations.
• Be alert and walk purposefully. Confidence deters attackers.
• Be wary of strangers, on foot or in cars, asking.
• If someone follows you, go to a place where there are other people.
• Be aware of open businesses or homes with lights on in case you must run for help.
• If a vehicle follows you, turn around and walk quickly in the opposite direction.
• Do not overload yourself with packages, books, or large bags.
• Keep keys accessible and ready to use when you approach your building or vehicle.
• Be aware that the use of headphones may increase your vulnerability.
• Consider carrying a whistle or hand-held alarm.
• Do not hitchhike.
• Do not prop open locked exterior doors.
• Do not allow door-to-door salespeople to enter your room or office.
• Be suspicious of unknown persons loitering or checking doors in your building.
• Avoid studying or working alone in a building at night.
• After hour at night, avoid using stairwells in isolated areas of the building.
• Avoid using isolated rest rooms, especially those near stairwells.