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Other Services

School climate is the term often used to describe the social-emotional tone of a school, how it feels to be there. Climate reflects – and predicts – how the people inside the school treat and interact with each other. It influences everything from student behavior to teacher morale to test scores.

As discussed at Research and Results, there are five sets of factors or determinants that influence school climate, and Community Matters provides an array of services related to - and in support of - four. Some of these include:

Staff Factors

Our trainings for staff are designed to help them:

• notice the more subtle and pervasive forms of student mistreatment
• develop effective responses to the bullying, insults, and other mistreatment they DO see, and
• build more open, trusting, and effective working relationships with young people

Family Factors

Parent Workshops help parents/guardians sharpen their skills for

• developing and maintaining positive relationships with they school-age youth;
• noticing the mistreatment that ever seems to be getting younger, meaner, harder to identify and more acceptable;
• working with children and school staff to prevent and stop mistreatment, and reinforce positive

Community Factors

Our Safer School Symposium can help increase awareness of and support for youth-centered bullying and violence prevention efforts. Our presentations to community, District, County, or State-level groups working to improve student behavior, school safety, and school climate are offered to support such efforts.

We also conduct keynotes and workshops at state, regional, and national conferences of educators, administrators, school safety professionals, school board members, and others. Topics might include Students as First Responders, Ten Keys Safer Schools, Relational Skills Training, Bullies and their Parents, and more.

Youth Factors

In addition to our Safe School Ambassadors program, we offer Connect & Respect to help smaller schools meet their own unique challenges of building a positive school climate. Our Youth Forum provides an opportunity for students to speak out about the challenges and problems they encounter and to work together with adults to develop and implement solutions.

Others programs and services are always in development, and we frequently create special sessions to meet a specific need, so if you have an idea or need, please contact us.

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