School-Community Violence Prevention: Focus on Gangs

Who Should Attend?

Administrators, school staff, law enforcement officers, parents, students.

About the training:

What makes one neighborhood more crime-resistant than another? Stability, economic health, education, and employment opportunities play important roles; but one of the greatest assets is a mobilized, active group of residents who work together to forestall or reduce conditions that are likely to bring on violence, drugs, and other crime.

This training is about community mobilization; the process of engaging residents and resources of a specific social, economic, and/or geographic unit in focused prevention and intervention efforts that address locally important problems. Participants will learn the components of a comprehensive school/community violence prevention plan, including zero tolerance, training and education, prevention activities, intervention services, and responding in a crisis. Theyn will also (1) obtain historical perspective and current information on local gangs within their school community; (2) understand the current research on protective factors and resiliency; and (3) determine appropriate collaborative strategies for school/community mobilization and reclamation. Most importantly, participants will begin a school/community action plan to address the issue of violence, and learn how to access local, state and federal resources and funding to do so.

Registration fees:

$40/person

Training location and dates:

Check the Prevention Workshop Calendar. Flyers will be sent to all principals.

Contact:

Linda Sargent, Safe Schools Consultant, (661) 636-4744 or email: lisargent@kern.org

 

Prevention Training Program Course Descriptions

Safe Schools

Kern County Substance Abuse Prevention Education Partnerships


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