School and Campus Safety
Safe schools and college campuses are places where students excel at academics and extracurricular activities. Students, faculty, administrators, and school resource officers or campus law enforcement can work together to prevent campus crime and help ensure a secure environment where people can focus on getting an education. CSC has lots of resources to help you plan your school and campus safety event.
Blog
Prevention Works: Back to the Carefree College Life
This NCPC Prevention Works blog examines safety issues on campus, distills research findings, and lists tips to help college students stay safe.
Podcasts
Margolis Healy & Associates work to increase safety and security
at universities, colleges, and K-12 school systems. In this podcast, Mr. Steven Healy provides useful insights for increased school and campus safety, a unique methodology for evaluating safety and security needs—3 Circles of Prevention System TM, as well as best practices in crime prevention programming at institutions of higher education.
Advanced Campus Security Series Podcasts
These podcasts focus on
This podcast features a discussion of the unique challenges of implementing crime prevention measures at community colleges (as opposed to universities)
This podcast discusses the impact that social network presents for students in a campus environment.
Resources
National Crime Prevention Council
Making Your Campus Safer: Assessing Risks and Liabilities (Training Curriculum)
NCPC offers a free, one and one-half day training curriculum for college administrators that teaches how to assess safety and security.
Basic Campus Crime Prevention Course (Training Curriculum)
This three-day course includes best practices in campus crime prevention, lighting, security surveys, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), housing security, contemporary crimes, and how to make effective presentations. It is aimed at frontline personnel.
NCPC’s Be Safe and Sound in School program is focused on making America’s schools safer so kids can excel in their personal and academic development.
School Safety and Security Toolkit
This easy-to-use toolkit includes a step-by-step guide for assessing school safety and security, forming an action team, holding a forum with stakeholders to brainstorm solutions, developing an action plan and building support, and evaluating the results of improvements.
Be Safe and Sound in School: A Guide to Best Practices
This case study guide provides specific examples and strategies used to implement the Be Safe and Sound in School program and improve overall school safety efforts.
Caregivers’ Guide to School Safety and Security
This pamphlet urges parental action to improve safety, outlines four ways they can get involved, and provides the tools needed to get started.
Tipsheets: Stopping School Violence
These six tipsheets give ideas on how parents, students, teachers, and law enforcement personnel and others can stop school violence.
School Safety and Security Newsletter
This resource for parents and professionals concerned about school safety and security includes best practices, new research findings, and articles about relevant topics.
This resource tells where to go for information on state-level school safety and security trainings, tools, and technical assistance.
Be Safe and Sound in School Evaluation Report
This evaluation of NCPC’s Be Safe and Sound in School program includes a description and brief history of the project, study methodology, and profiles of each site.
Safety Tips for College Students
College Students can take many steps to protect them-selves and reduce their risk of being victimized.
Click on this link to find more resources focused on school safety and violence prevention.
Rapid Response
NCPC’s Rapid Response tools provide a quick response to community crises. Two public service announcements for radio, one for parents and the other for children, address school violence. Download them here.
Tips for Working Together To Create Safer Schools
This black-and-white, reproducible, tri-fold brochure presents tips for making schools safer. It is written in concise, easy-to-ready language.
Making Schools Safer
This one-page, black-and-white flier, which can be easily reproduced, tells parents how to foster safer behavior in their kids and crate safer schools.
International Association of Chiefs of Police
VIPS in a School Setting
This publication, produced in association with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, examines how the community can assist in promoting school safety and preventing school violence and presents profiles of successful programs.
VIPS in a College or University Setting
This publication tells how to launch a volunteer program to enhance safety and security on campus, supplementing the work of law enforcement.
Major Cities Chiefs Police Association
Campus Security Guidelines
Recommended operational policies for local and campus law enforcement agencies are detailed in this publication.
National Sheriffs’ Association
Watch Out, Speak Out, Stand Out: You Can Help Stop Crime and Violence
This publication for children describes four successful Boys & Girls Club programs that encourage kids to take an active role in reducing crime in their schools and neighborhoods. Includes puzzles and games.
University report details crime, prevention
The University of Alabama’s Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report for 2010 revealed that the University has a much higher rate of alcohol violations than many other schools in the Southeastern Conference. The 79-page document contains crime statistics from the last three years, as well as the University’s plan for preventing and responding to incidents of crime, fire and other emergencies.
According to the report, in 2010, 518 UA students received disciplinary action for on-campus alcohol violations. At Auburn University, only 69 students faced disciplinary action for the same violation. Both Mississippi State and the University of Florida disciplined 120 students each for alcohol-related violations. Read More!
