Welcome to the School Safety Research Group's Resource Page. The SSRG promotes some of the most current resources in school safety research. We also highlight reports and published materials developed through innovative research projects. If you have any suggestions for resources, please complete the Request for Inclusion Form.

GUIDE TO SCHOOL VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS: KEY PRINCIPLES FOR SAFE SCHOOLS this publication is a companion guide to the Practical Information on Crisis Planning Guide and provides information on establishing vulnerability assessment teams and selecting vulnerability assessment tools.

Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers this publication is created in part from information in a special issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. This journal supplement summarized the data from an expert panel meeting convened by CDC in September 2006.

What Works Practice Guide on Dropout Prevention This publication is geared toward educators, administrators, and policy makers, this guide provides recommendations that focus on reducing high school dropout rates. Strategies presented include identifying and advocating for at-risk students, implementing programs to improve behavior and social skills, and keeping students engaged in the school environment.

NEW HAMILTON FISH PUBLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE:

Parents’ Guide to Truancy-- provides parents and guardians with pro-active strategies for preventing and reducing incidences of truancy.

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 Quality School Facilities and Security Technologies

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

Providing Quality Youth Mentoring in Schools and Communities--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

Training New Mentors

Sustainability Planning and Resource Development for Youth Mentoring Programs

Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode Among Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006
Report published from the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

U.S. Smoking Rate Still Coming Down
Report published by CESAR from Gallup

Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2006
Report published by the National Center for Education Statistics

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Student Benefits: Research Implications for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Core Elements
Brief published by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools' National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

Towards Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth, and their Families: Financing that Supports Knowledge
Report published by the National Center for Education Statistics

Sexually Assaulted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
Provides information on the estimated number and characteristics of children who were sexually assaulted in the United States in 1999.

Caretaker Satisfaction With Law Enforcement Response to Missing Children
Examines the perceptions of primary caretakers who contacted police when their children were abducted, ran away, were thrown away, or missing.

Mitigating Hazards in School Facilities
Guidance for making school safety and security assessments and for planning, funding, and implementing safety and security improvements. Includes 25 downloadable, subject-specific assessment guides.

Low-Cost Security Measures for School Facilities
Fifty school safety and security measures that may be implemented at little or no cost and without the use of complex technology.

School Security Technologies
Current information on access control, surveillance, weapons detection, communications, alarm, and emergency notification system technologies.

Emergency Response Information for School Facilities
Information needed for managing school buildings, grounds, occupants, and rescue and recovery personnel during and after a crisis.

Door Locking Options in Schools
School door locking options and the limitations imposed on them by building and fire codes.

An Investigation of Best Practices for Evacuating and Sheltering Individuals with Special Needs and Disabilities
Response to the June 2007 General Accountability Office report GAO-07-609 concerning evacuating and sheltering students with special needs and disabilities.

SAMSHA Report on Underage Alcohol Use

Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model

HHS' CDC Reports Cigarette Use Among High School Students

Additional resources can also be found at the following websites:

National School Safety Center

National Crime Prevention Council

National School Safety and Security Services

Stop Bullying Now

Kentucky Center for School Safety

Other State School Safety Centers