VIOLENCE PREVENTION EDUCATION

Program Overview:

There are a number of key programs provided below offering information on Violence Prevention programming.

Violence Prevention Programs Currently in Place:

Second Step (grades K-6):
The award-winning Second Step program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent-education components. Research shows that aggressive behavior in children predicts risk of later delinquency, substance abuse, school dropout, early parenthood, and depression. Classroom use of the Second Step program helps provide children with the skills they need to create safe environments and become successful adults.
www.committeeforchildren.org

Project ALERT (grades 7-8):
Project ALERT is a nationally recognized, 7th & 8th grade, evidence-based program that gives students insight, understanding, and actual skills for resisting substance use. Project ALERT successfully addresses tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants, the substances teens are most likely to use.
www.projectalert.com

Project SUCCESS (grades 10-12):
Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) prevents and reduces substance abuse among high school adolescents by placing highly trained professionals in schools to provide a full range of substance use prevention and early intervention services. These include normative and preventive education, counseling and skills training, problem identification and referral, community-based processes, and environmental approaches.
www.sascorp.org

Link Crew (grades 9-12):
Link Crew is a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel comfortable throughout the first year of their high school experience. Built on the belief that students can help students succeed, Link Crew trains members of the junior and senior class to be Link Leaders. As positive role models, Link Leaders are motivators, leaders and teachers who guide the freshmen to discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to high school.
www.boomerangproject.com

Links and Resources:*

Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, communities that value diversity. If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start — and continue — the journey. Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements, Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of life. www.tolerance.org/index.jsp

The Museum of Tolerance is a high tech, hand-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust. www.wiesenthal.com/mot/index.cfm

*These links are listed as a courtesy to our website visitors. While these sites are offered as a resource for our visitors, the Elk Grove Unified School District does not control the information contained in the linked websites and accepts no liability for any information.

Contacts:
Positive Youth Development Team:
Shirley Arroyo, Positive Youth Development Coordinator
Tami Silvera, Positive Youth Development Project Implementor
Jennifer Ballerini, Program Assistant
Barbara Curry, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor
Chenetta Briggs, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor
Yvette Jackson, Project SUCCESS Project Implementor
Ron Richard, Substance Abuse Prevention Education Project Implementor

Mailing Address:
Student Support and Health Services
c/o PYD Programs
Elk Grove Unified School District
9510 Elk Grove-Florin Road
Elk Grove, CA 95624

Telephone:
(916) 686-7568

FAX:
(916) 686-7596