Report
Card on School Violence Prevention
April 20, 2009, marks 10 years since the tragedy at Columbine High
School, when students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 12
of their peers and a teacher and wounded over 20 others before
committing suicide. Columbine was a pivotal moment in our nation's
history. While it wasn't the country's first school
shooting, the scope of the tragedy shattered the commonly-held
assumption that our schools are safe havens for our children.
This School Violence-Prevention Report Card provides an answer
to the question: Ten years later, how much safer are
our schools? The Report Card is based on a careful review
of data from the past ten years, documenting school violence
and school climate as well as Community Matters' experience
working with hundreds of schools across the nation.
This report was researched and developed by Community Matters.
Read the Executive Summary
Obtain the Full Report Card
Press Release
Read the press release announcing the release
of the Report Card.
Webinar
Ten Years after Columbine:
Strategies and Solutions for Safer Schools
Click here to watch the recording of our recent webinar - with Rick Phillips and Chris Pack assessing strategies and results of school violence-prevention efforts over the last 10 years.
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About Community Matters
Community Matters' mission is to collaborate with schools
and communities to engage, equip and empower young people to
become change-agents and peacemakers. Since its founding
in 1996, Community Matters has worked with more than 1000 schools
and youth-serving organizations across North America addressing
youth empowerment and violence-prevention. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization, Community Matters is headquartered in Sebastopol,
California, with a satellite office in Los Angeles.
In 2000, in response to the shootings at Columbine High School
in Littleton, Colorado, Community Matters created the Safe School
Ambassadors (SSA) program. Now Community Matters' flagship
program, the SSA program engages and empowers the socially-influential,
opinion leaders of a school's diverse cliques and groups,
and equips them with the powerful, nonviolent communication and
intervention skills to interact with their peers to prevent and
stop bullying and violence. The SSA program has been implemented
in approximately 650 elementary, middle and high schools in 26
states.
More about Community Matters
Learn more about Safe School Ambassadors
For more information about the Report Card:
Tess
Woods
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