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Safe & Responsive Schools (SRS)

Client: U.S. Department of Education
Term: August 1999–September 2003

This is a model demonstration and technical assistance project dedicated to providing a broader perspective on school safety, stressing comprehensive planning, prevention, and parent/community involvement, in order to develop and test systems change in school discipline.

The project, funded by a U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs grant, is grounded in a preventive approach to behavioral planning that emphasizes intervention at three levels to address issues of school violence and disruption:

Creating a positive climate
Early identification and intervention
Effective responses

The Center worked with 20 schools in two states to implement this model and develop a practical guide to school safety and discipline, containing empirically validated strategies for developing non-violent school communities.

Safe & Responsive Schools Reference Information

Safe & Responsive Schools Web Site