PREVENTING SCHOOL VIOLENCE TOP 5 WAYS TO BUILD STRONGER STUDENT-ADULT RELATIONSHIPS
Released on: June 4, 2008, 9:10 am
Press Release Author: Kyle Arnett
Industry: Education
Press Release Summary: Christopher DiCarlo, CEO, Youth Crime Watch of America responds to recent U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education study
Press Release Body: MIAMI - Youth Crime Watch of America, a leading crime-prevention organization with 250 Florida chapters, identifies top ways to build stronger student-adult relationships to prevent campus violence. Schools can model the suggestions to fit their specific needs.
Youth Crime Watch programs take into account 9 components, 5 of which, are recommended by the organization's Chief Executive Officer, Christopher DiCarlo, as the best ways to prevent violence on school campuses:
Top 5 Ways to Build Stronger Student-Adult Relationships to Prevent School Violence:
1. Crime Reporting Students can develop systems that allow witnesses to report crime safely, accurately, and even anonymously.
2. Youth Patrols & Safety Escorts Students can work together in a formal structure, with help from adults, to patrol the campus of the school in pairs or small groups, acting non-confrontationally to help maintain order, enforce rules, and report crime or crime-threatening situations.
3. Conflict Resolution Teaches students basic techniques for cooling off a situation and getting to a good ending for everyone.
4. Peer Mediation & Counseling Establish programs to train peers to help fellow students in their day-to-day problems.
5. Action Projects Activities planned by students to help deal with a specific need on campus or in the surrounding community, or to raise awareness of an issue or potential problem before it becomes widespread.
Youth Crime Watch of America is a national organization that has a proven record of preventing school shootings and other crimes in schools and local communities. 50,000 young people spread across 29 states and 20 countries are taking leadership roles producing positive change through nine components including community action projects, youth mentoring youth, and anonymous crime reporting. The direct involvement that its members take in implementing programs to better their environment includes nine components. Experts agree, increased safety allows for progress and a better learning environment.
Youth Crime Watch of America staff and board members available for interviews: Christopher DiCarlo, Chief Executive Officer Terry Allen Jones, Director of Training and Technical Assistance Ret. Lt. Gerald Rudoff, Chair of International Division
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