The Impact of Anti-Violence Programming at the Middle School Level: A Case Study

violence prevention programs;middle school;anti-violence programming;elementary education;College of Arts and Sciences: Public Administration

Del Bello, Connie M.Flint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: violence prevention programs;    middle school;    anti-violence programming;    elementary education;    College of Arts and Sciences: Public Administration;   

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【 摘 要 】

Rochester Community Schools has received funding from the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act since 1986 in addressing primarily alcohol and durg usage among the district;;s K-12 student population. In 1994, federal funding included a ;;safe;; component in addressing acts of violence which aggressively permeated the school front. RCA had disbursed money from the funding in a systematic, prioritized fashion, but the middle schools were focusing on separate means of utilizing the money available in addressing the violence in the schools. Students at the four Rochester Community Schools middle schools in grades 6, 7, and 8 are currently being presented with various violence-prevention programs. Documentation of discipline issues and statistics has been secured from last year and will be compared to end-of -the-year discipline records after violence prevention programs have been implemented this year. Pre- and post- student and staff surveys from one middle school building, along with a focus group interview, will determine attitudes and observations of effective anti-violence programming at the middle school level. Identification of successful violence prevention programs is essential to RCS in addressing the escalating rise in discipline referals and necessary action in light of the calculated assumption of the decrease in grant money allocation in the coming years.