Comprehensive Planning for Safe Learning Environments

A School Professional's Guide to Integrating Physical and Psychological Safety – Prevention through Recovery

Melissa A. Reeves, Linda M. Kanan, Amy E. Plog

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780415998352
• eBook ISBN: 9781135839734
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

This book provides school administrators, school-based mental health professionals, and other educational professionals with the framework and tools needed to establish a comprehensive safe learning environment. The authors identify four necessary phases to achieve this (prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery) and provide numerous examples and tools to help readers create safe environments, while also addressing students' academic, emotional, and social needs. An emphasis is placed on the importance of the balance between physical and psychological safety within a multi-tiered framework - it is not enough for students to know their school is secure; they must also feel they are safe and can turn to their teachers and school-based mental health professionals with their concerns. Aaccompanying downloadable resources contain several valuable resources, such as forms, handouts, articles, and monitoring tools.

CD Contents

CHAPTER 2

Brief School Climate Survey—Summary Report

Psychological Safety Progress Review—Revised

Sample: Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Preparedness Template

CHAPTER 4

Colorado Senate Bill 08-181 Position Paper

CHAPTER 5

Media:

Helpful Hints: Establishing and Developing Strategic Partnerships With Media Representatives

NASP: Responsible Media Coverage of Crisis Events Impacting Children

NASP: Suggestions for Dealing with Media

Comprehensive Safe School Plan Checklist

Checklist: Evaluating the Crisis Response

Sample School Staff Crisis Response Plan

Specific Guidelines for Conducting Crisis Drills and Exercises

CHAPTER 8

Sample Documentation of Suicide Risk Intervention

Sample Danger Assessment and Intervention Plan (DAIP)

Trees and Other Interventions for Aggressive or Dangerous Behavior

Parent Tips: Keeping Your Child Safe

CHAPTER 9

NASP: Memorials/Rituals/Activities Following Traumatic Events

Tips for Helping Children:

Tips for Adults

Tips for Parent With Infants and Toddlers

Tips for Parent With Preschool Children

Tips for Parent With School-Age Children

Tips for Parent With Adolescents

Table 1.1 School Violence and Safety, 2005-2006 School Year: Percentage of Public Schools Experiencing at Least One Incident and Reporting at Least One Incident That Occurred to Police

School Characteristic			Serious Violence
	Violent Incidents"		Incidents'^1		Theft^c		Other"
	Experienced	Reported	Experienced	Reported	Experienced	Reported	Experienced	Reported
Total	77.7	37.7	17.1	12.6	46.0	27.0	68.2	50.6
School level
Primary	67.3	18.7	11.0	6.2	27.8	12.5	54.8	34.1
Middle	94.4	63.1	25.2	19.7	68.7	43.3	87.8	72.6
High	95.2	77.3	31.8	29.5	85.6	67.7	93.6	86.9
Combined	83.5	46.2	17.4	13.2	54.9	33.9	75.0	55.3
Locale
City	82.5	39.9	23.2	17.4	47.2	30.3	73.1	54.6
Suburban	78.2	35.3	15.4	11.5	47.0	29.7	71.0	52.5
Town	81.7	41.8	16.6	12.1	51.0	32.3	70.1	56.4
Rural	71.9	35.9	14.4	10.0	42.1	22.1	61.5	44.1

^a Violent incidents include the serious violent incidences (rape or attempted rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with a weapon, threat of

physical attack with a weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon), physical attack or fight without a weapon, and threat of physical attack without a

weapon.
^b Serious violent incidences include rape or attempted rape, sexual battery other than rape, physical attack or fight with a weapon, threat of physical attack with a

weapon, and robbery with or without a weapon.
^c Theft/larceny (taking things worth over $10 without personal confrontation) was defined as the unlawful taking of another person's property without personal

confrontation threat, violence, or bodily harm to include pocket picking, stealing a purse or backpack, theft from building or motor vehicle, bicycles, theft from

vending machines, and other thefts.
^d Other incidences include possession of a firearm or explosive device; possession of a knife or sharp object; distribution, possession, or use of illegal drugs or

alcohol; vandalism.
Source. Adapted from Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education—National Center for Education Statistics (2008). The condition of education: School violence and safety. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008031_Appl/pdf. To access full report http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ AnnualReports/.

Table 1.2 Physical and Psychological Safe School Measures Spanning a Comprehensive Framework for Creating and Sustaining a Safe Schools Climate

	Universal		Targeted		Intensive
Physical safety	Collaboration with key stakeholders and community agencies		Implementing further safety		Law enforcement
	(Chs. 2&4)		measures in response to		collaboration to respond to
	Physical safety audits and data analysis (Ch. 2)		audits and data analysis		threats and acts that
	Multi-hazards approach (Ch. 3)		(Ch. 2)		threaten physical safety
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Table of contents

• School Based Practice in Action Series
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• I ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE SAFE SCHOOLS CLIMATE
• II PHYSICAL SAFETY: MULTI-HAZARD PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS
• III PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY: MULTI-LEVEL PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND RECOVERY
• References
• Index
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