Organizations and Web Sites
The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
Website: http://www.aaets.org/
Phone: (516) 543-2217
Web site provides a national directory of this organization’s members (i.e., consultants for crisis response and post-trauma counseling), along with a publication on responding to and preventing school crises.
The American Association of School Administrators
Websites: http://www.aasa.org/, http://www.aasa.org/Issues/Safe/safe.htm
Phone: (703) 528-0700
Web site provides a page filled with publications on creating safe schools / preventing violence, as well as links to other key resources.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Website: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
Phone:
(770) 488-1506
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began studying home and recreational injuries in the early 1970s and violence prevention in 1983. From these early activities grew a national program to reduce injury, disability, death, and costs associated with injuries outside the workplace. In June 1992, CDC established the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). As the lead federal agency for injury prevention, NCIPC works closely with other federal agencies; national, state and local organizations; state and local health departments; and research institutions.
Center for the Prevention of School Violence
Website: http://www.cpsv.org
CPSV focuses on school violence and acts as a resource for information on programming assistance, research and violence prevention.
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/cspv
Phone: (303) 492-8465
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community, practitioners and policy makers. Web site provides information for parents of at-risk youth, school violence fact sheets, prevention & intervention programs, youth firearms violence fact sheets, publications, and links to other school violence resources. Go to Blueprints to view programs that have been evaluated as successful and programs that hold promise.
The Collaborative for the Advancement of Social and Emotional Learning
Website: http://www.casel.org
Phone: (312) 413-1008
The Collaborative for the Advancement of Social and Emotional Learning is an international collaborative of educators, scientists, policy makers, foundations, and concerned citizens promoting social and emotional education and development in schools. Research links positive social and emotional development with decreased probability of a child’s becoming involved in risky behaviors later in life, such as delinquency.
Community Policing Consortium
Website: http://www.communitypolicing.org/
Phone: (800) 833-3085
