News Update on Safe and Healthy Schools

Trend Reports

These reports summarize Canadian or international trends, providing links to several reports, research and resources.

• Safe Schools/Youth Justice in Canada. (Council of Ministers of Education, Canada)
• School-Community Cooperation to Prevent Racism and Promote Multiculturalism (Canadian Association of Principals)

News Items on Safe and Healthy Schools

• January 2001. RCMP. Special Issue of RCMP Gazette on Restorative Justice. Shaping and Sustaining Restorative Justice in Canada http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/gazette-restj-e.pdf
  
• March 8, 2001. U.S. Government. Gateway Site to US Federal Sites on Youth Violence. www.safeyouth.org.
  
• March 8, 2001. Quebec Ministry of Education. Quebec report on School Safety. http://www.cse.gouv.qc.ca/e/gen/qdnf.htm
  
• March 12, 2001. Saskatoon Police Services. Saskatoon Best Practices in Community Policing. http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca/dpt/police/programs/community_policing/index.html
  
• March 15. Canadian Policy Research Network. School-Aged Children Need Better Support - Study. http://lists.magma.ca:8080/T/A17.44.147.1.102
  
• March 29, 2001. BC Ministry of Education. New BC Safe Together Web Site Helps Prevent Bullying. http:// www.safetogether.ca.
  
• April 10, 2001. Canadian Association of Principals. April 10, 2001. Zero Tolerance Policies.
  
• April 11, 2001. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Beyond Class Time. Educational Leadership, Vol 58 No 7. April, 01 http://www.ascd.org/frameedlead.html
  
• April 11, 2001. Ontario Ministry of Education. School Report Card to Include Safety. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Education/20010411/UONTAM.html
  
• April 27, 2001. Off Balance: Youth, Race & Crime in the News. http://www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/media/
  
• May 11, 2001. A. J. Reynolds, J. A. Temple, D. L. Robertson, E. A. Mann. Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and Juvenile Arrest: A 15-Year Follow-up of Low-Income Children in Public Schools. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v285n18/abs/joc01444.html
  
• May 28, 2001. Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. The Task Force and Public Dialogue on the Role of the School Role of Education Expanding. http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/k/pecs/policy/docs/RoleofSchools.pdf
  
• May 29, 2001. Media Awareness Network. Providing Concerned Canadian Parents with Resources to Deal with Media Violence. http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/webaware/pressgallery/agvot.htm
  
• May 30, 2001. Statistics Canada. Youth Court Statistics. http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/010530/d010530c.htm
  
• June 2001. U.S. Department of Education. Youth Summits: Law-Related Education for Violence Prevention. ERIC Digest. http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed446027.html
  
• June 1, 2001. Canadian Association of Principals. Online Summary/Links to Canadian Safe School Initiatives. http://www.safehealthyschools.org/whatsnew/initiatives.htm
  
• June 5, 2001. Statistics Canada. NLSCY on ExtraCurricular & Prevention. http://www.statcan.ca:80/Daily/English/010530/td010530.htm.
  
• June 6, 2001. Anonymous, Online Student Violence Reporting Systems for Schools.
  
• June 12, 2001. New Brunswick Department of Education. Keeping our Schools Safe: A Protocol for Violence Prevention and Crisis Response. http://www.gov.nb.ca/education/orgs/e/stuserv.htm
  
• July 5, 2001. Government of Canada. National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention receives $145 million in additional funding. National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention
  
• July 21, 2001. Canadian School Boards Association.CSBA Guide on School-Community Partnerships. http://www.cdnsba.org/csba-togetherguide-e1.pdf
  
• July 26, 2001. LA Times. Teachers Union Offer Homicide Insurance
  http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-000060865jul26.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dlearning
  
• August 9, 2001. Nova Scotia Department of Education. School Codes of Conduct. ftp://ftp.ednet.ns.ca/pub/educ/school-conduct/reportcode.pdf
  
• August 10, 2001. U.S. Department of Education. LA After School Program Effective: Research Report. For more information on UCLA's Center for the Study of Evaluation, visit
  http://www.cse.ucla.edu.
  
• August 18. U.S. Department of Education. RAND Evaluation of US Safe & Drug Free Schools Program. http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1328/.