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New Publication Announcement: Parents’ Guide to Truancy
The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence, at The George Washington University, announces its new publication for parents. This 36-page, 4” x 5” booklet, based on best practices, provides parents and guardians with pro-active strategies for preventing and reducing incidences of truancy. The booklet can be downloaded here (Right-click to Save As).
For additional information, contact Ruth Marshall at rmarshal@gwu.edu.
Strategies for Creating a Safe
Learning Environment for Children
The Hamilton Fish Institute on School
and Community Violence at the
The publications provided here are based on previous work done by the
Hamilton Fish Institute and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
These resources have all been updated with the latest research by leading
experts in the fields of school safety and youth mentoring. They provide
practitioners with state-of-the-art strategies and concepts for improving
school safety and climate for providing valuable adult mentors for students who
could use some extra support and encouragement.
Creating Safer Schools and Communities
This series offers five newly revised guidebooks for key
components of creating safe, positive schools. They feature a combination of
fresh research, best practices, and planning tools to help educators and
administrators make effective decisions and create successful programming. Download each title in
pdf format below.
Creating Schoolwide Prevention and Intervention
Strategies
Ensuring
Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
School Policies and Legal Issues Supporting Safe
Schools
The Role of Mental Health Services in Promoting
Safe and Secure Schools
This series provides school staff and youth development professionals with
a comprehensive set of tools to plan and implement a safe and supportive youth
mentoring program. These resources are based on the latest research into
mentoring best practices and will improve both program design and the mentoring
relationships formed between adult volunteers and young people in need. Download
each title in pdf format below.
The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring
Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedure
Manual
Generic Mentoring Program Policy and Procedures -
Customizable Template
Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring
Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors
Sustainability Planning and Resource Development
for Youth Mentoring Programs
The Hamilton Fish Institute and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory hope that these resources assist your school or youth-serving organization in creating a safe, positive learning environment for the children you serve.
Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs
The third in a series of OJJDP sponsored
reports on youth courts in the United States, this publication looks at
questions concerning their operation, the extent of volunteer activity,
how they function as they mature, and the resources they employ. It is
based on a national survey of youth courts that focused on program
outcomes and administration and operation.
The results will provide guidance on how
to build and sustain an organizational structure that allows youth
courts to successfully fulfill their mission of preventing young
offenders from repeating antisocial behaviors, while relying on
volunteers and even ex-offenders to be a part of the process.
Download it in pdf format here.
Hamilton Fish Institute News
Volume 1-3 of Hamilton Fish Institute News is now available.
Proceedings from The 2007 National Conference
Available online here, separately or as one download in PDF format.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Fact Sheet Spotlights Juvenile Justice
The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention has published Developing Safe Schools Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice.
The information provided in this 2-page fact sheet draws on the experience of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a collaborative effort of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services.
Among the resources cited for developing effective juvenile justice-school relations is the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Preventions' Model Programs Guide, an online portal to scientifically tested and proven programs that address a range of issues across the juvenile justice spectrum.
Resources:
"Developing Safe School Partnerships: Spotlight on Juvenile Justice" and related juvenile justice resources are available at http: //www.promoteprevent.org/Resources/briefs/
juvenile%20justice%20resources.html
To access the Model Programs Guide, visit http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/programs/mpg.html.