OJJDP FY24 The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) seeks to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (Kâ12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.
Learn moreThe U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to increase school safety by implementing solutions that will improve school climate. Solutions include school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students, technological innovations that are shown to increase school safety such as anonymous reporting technology, and other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
Learn moreThis session will assist participants in identifying how school and CVI partnerships use school and community data - along with relationships between students, families, and school staff - to create a Safe Passage program.
Register nowWhile Community Violence Intervention (CVI) approaches often focus on persons closest to violence/victimization, schools administrators highlight that violence often occurs regularly in and around specific school campus locations. Place-based strategies, such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), can be an important tool for schools to access and prioritize locations to use CVI resources to improve school and student safety. This webinar will focus on the core concepts of CPTED and how they can employed in alignment with your school safety strategies.
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