Resources

The KCSS Resource Center locates and evaluates information regarding school safety practices from KCSS research, national databases, the Internet, education journals and other resources to keep the KCSS and the citizens of Kentucky on top of current information and trends.

Various handouts, reports and links are provided below assisting interested school personnel, law enforcement officers and school safety conscious community members.

• Karen McCuiston: Kentucky Safe Schools Week Oct. 21-27 offers important opportunity for engagement – Sept. 26, 2018 – KyForward - Every third week of October, schools across Kentucky have an opportunity to partner with their local lawmakers, first responders and community members to observe Kentucky Safe Schools Week. The week is designed to raise awareness of school safety issues and initiatives at the local and state level. … 
• Communicating Expectations for Parental Behavior – Fall/Winter 2017 - Kentucky School Leader – Since 2003, the Kentucky Center for School Safety (KCS) has conducted 971 Safe School Assessments across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. … KCSS conducted two statewide studies concerning parental ...
• The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance (TA) Center has released SITE ASSESS, their latest EOP Interactive Tool designed to support education agencies—both public and nonpublic—with emergency management and emergency operations plan (EOP) development.
• Report: Less Than 1 Percent of Students Broke Laws – May 1, 2017 – West Kentucky Star - RICHMOND, KY - The Kentucky Center for School Safety (KCSS) has released its 2015-16 School Safety Data Report examining law violations committed in Kentucky’s public schools during the previous school year. …

• KCSS Calendar of Events When/where are trainings and other school safety related events are available
• Safe Schools Week
• Safe Schools and Communities Conference

• Emergency Response Drill schedule: As of 2013, all four emergency response drills (fire, lockdown, severe weather and earthquake) must be conducted by the first 30 days of the new school year and must be conducted again in January. Use this worksheet to plan drills for your school. Submit a copy of the schedule with your school’s plan, and use the original to document drills when they actually occur.
• Best Practice in Alternative Education
• Emergency Management
• Pandemic Planning for Schools and Universities
• Crisis Response Information
• KCSS Annual Data Reports Annual reports on Kentucky data
• KCSS Annual Report Annual report on KCSS activities
• KCSS Issues Briefs White Papers on current trends or issues
• KCSS School Resource Officer (SRO) Report
• KCSS Parent Aggression Report (Kentucky)
• House Bill 330 Summary of school safety legislation
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety 
• Handouts available for educators, law enforcement officers, parents and community members
• Ask KCSS Provides answers to school safety questions
• Internet Safety Concerns Information on Internet safety as well as directions on how to remove your personal information from websites
• The Council for Better Education CBE wants to share its analyses of Kentucky student achievement, school funding, and litigation issues, and will also let us link to valuable work by others on these topics.
• Sample Letters for Parents, Students and Staff during times of loss - The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement has created templates of letters so notification statements can be quickly prepared during times of loss.
• Pandemic Flu Checklist:  K-12 School Administrators – Center for Disease Control (CDC) has developed a checklist to assist in developing and/or improving plans to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic.
• Kentucky School Leader Magazine  With the help of the Kentucky Center for School Safety (KCSS) and other experts, you will find articles on Kentucky's school safety laws, Senate Bill 8 and House Bill 354; how schools should cope with cyber-bullying; steps to creating, revising or updating your Emergency Operations Plan and much more.
• KET Health Three60 Video Program: "When Children Are Cruel" Bullying has become a serious concern in school districts across the state and in the nation. Host Renee Shaw and guests explore the impact of bullying on students today, the role of bystander intervention, and how schools are implementing anti-bullying programs.
• REMS EOP Assess Tool This tool is designed to help you assess your capacity to create and maintain a high-quality school or institution of higher education emergency operations plan that considers a range of threats and hazards.
• Take Back Control Video
• Kentucky is the first state in the nation to test the effectiveness of a bystander strategy to reduce sexual violence, dating violence, sexual harassment and stalking in a high school population. Violence can be prevented. See the results of a successfully completed CDC funded research study entitled: Green Dot Across the Bluegrass.
  - Watch Video: Green Dot Across the Bluegrass
  - Watch Video: JEAN DONOHUE -
    THE GREEN DOT INTERVENTION - But, does it work?
• YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program (VBPHP)
  In coincidence with National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month this October, Kentucky has its own home grown anti-violence and anti-bullying program. It is called the YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program which is now in its third year in Kentucky schools. It is a presentation by the Kentucky nonprofit YouthAlert! (YA!) and is where youth and adults meeting HALFWAY in the classroom to reduce violence and bullying ten percent. The presentation also including KCSS’s “Be the HERO; STOP the Bullying!” for Kentucky Safe Schools Week - October 16-22, 2016. For more information about bringing YouthAlert! (YA!) Violence & Bullying Prevention/Health Program to your school go to www.YouthAlert.us
  email info@YouthAlert.us or call 859.494.3677.
• Kentucky KIDS COUNT Project - KIDS COUNT provides a detailed picture of child well-being in order to strengthen public action on behalf of children and families. In addition to the national KIDS COUNT project, the Annie E. Casey Foundation supports Kentucky Youth Advocates in tracking county level data and producing the Kentucky KIDS COUNT County Data Book, which includes county level data for all 120 counties. 
• Kentucky General Assembly House Education
  Watch Video from 1-26-16
  Legislative Meeting (Charter School Discussion)
• Be SMART for Kids Campaign - Be SMART Brochure - Be SMART Poster
  

• Bullying
• Cyber-Bullying
• Sexting
• Crisis Management
• Pull the Plug on Cyber-bullies

• KCSS School Safety Associates Program
• On-Site Trainings
• Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline Program (KYCID)
• Safe School Centers Links and contact information for other state school safety centers
• Safe School Assessments This is a free assessment that provides the school with an independent look at the school’s climate and culture as it relates to enhancing the learning environment.

• KySafe Listserv Discusses general school safety issues
• KyALT Listserv Discusses alternative education in Kentucky

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