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Building Schools' Readiness to Implement a Comprehensive Approach to School Safety
Beverly Kingston1, Sabrina Arredondo Mattson2, Allison Dymnicki3
1Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, USA. beverly.kingston@colorado.edu.
Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
|July 3, 2018
Summary
Implementing comprehensive school safety requires addressing readiness barriers. Readiness assessments and feasibility meetings help select schools and improve their capacity for effective violence prevention and mental health promotion.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Educational Psychology
- Criminology
Background:
- Comprehensive school safety approaches integrating scientific evidence and implementation strategies are crucial for preventing youth violence and promoting mental/behavioral health.
- Schools and communities face significant challenges in articulating, synthesizing, and implementing these complex safety strategies.
- A gap exists between scientific evidence on school safety and its practical application in educational settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To bridge the gap between school safety research and practice by defining key components of a comprehensive approach.
- To describe methods for schools to assess their readiness for implementing comprehensive safety strategies.
- To illustrate challenges and solutions using data from the Safe Communities Safe Schools project.
Main Methods:
- Utilized readiness and implementation data from the Safe Communities Safe Schools project.
- Employed readiness assessments and feasibility meetings to inform school selection.
- Analyzed strategies for addressing identified readiness barriers.
Main Results:
- Readiness assessment, combined with feasibility meetings, effectively informs the selection of schools for comprehensive school safety implementation.
- Intentionally addressing readiness barriers within a comprehensive approach can enhance schools' motivation and capacity for effective implementation.
- The study highlights practical challenges and successful solutions in applying evidence-based school safety practices.
Conclusions:
- Readiness assessment is a vital precursor to successful implementation of comprehensive school safety initiatives.
- Proactive management of readiness barriers is essential for improving the capacity of schools to adopt and sustain safety strategies.
- Integrating scientific evidence with practical implementation strategies, informed by readiness assessments, optimizes youth violence prevention and mental health promotion efforts.
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