- Sharpen your parenting skills.
- Emphasize and build on your children's strength.
- Teach your children how to reduce their risks of becoming crime victims.
- Know where your kids are, what they are doing, and whom they are with at all times.
- Help your children learn non-violent ways to handle frustration, anger, and conflict.
- Become involved in your child's school activities - PTA, field trips, and helping out in
class or the lunch room.
- Work with other parents in your neighborhood to start a block
parent program.
SCHOOL STAFF
- Evaluate your school's safety objectively.
- Set targets for improvement.
- Develop consistent disciplinary policies, good security procedures, and a response
plan for emergencies.
- Train school personnel in conflict resolution, problem solving, drug prevention, crisis
intervention, cultural sensitivity, classroom management, and counseling skills.
- Work with students, parents, law enforcement, local governments, and community-
based groups to develop wider-scope crime prevention efforts.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
- Members of the Lawton Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit can report on the type of crimes in the area around the school and
suggest ways to make schools safer.
- Community-based groups, church organizations, and other service groups can provide
counseling, extended learning programs, before and after-school activities, school
watches, and other community crime provention programs.
- State and local governments can develop model school safety plans and provide
funding for schools to implement the programs.
- Local businesses can provide apprenticeship programs, or serve as mentors to area
students.
- Cameron University can offer conflict management courses to teachers or assist
school officials in developing violence prevention curricula.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
1615 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-3483
(703) 684-3345
- National School Boards Association
1680 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 838-6722
- National School Safety Center
4165 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Suite 290
Westlake Village, CA 91362
(805) 373-9977
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program
600 Independence Avenue, SW Portals 604
Washington, DC 20202-6123
(202) 260-6722
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