Bullying and School Safety

Prevention Educators has worked with over one hundred schools during the last four years in order to create safer schools within Western New York. The various program topics outline below can be combined to create a customized plan to meet the safety needs of your students, parents, and faculty within your elementary, middle, or high school. It is the goal of Prevention Educators to partner with you in making our workshops as effective as possible.

Stop It! Bullying

Anti-bullying and anti-violence programming is the most requested training by nearly every type of community Prevention Educators serves. The high demand for this training indicates a clear recognition of the need for quality prevention and response strategies to this increasing problem among our youth. This workshop differentiates bullying from teasing, outlines the various types of bullying behavior, identifies characteristics of bullies and their victims and discusses strategies for implementing anti-bullying practices and policies in the school environment.

Recommended audiences: Elementary, Middle, and High School Students, Parents, Teachers/Administrators

Safe Surfing At School

Sexual predators are using the Internet with increasing regularity to lure children into abusive relationships. Schools are an obvious target for such predatory behavior. How do you keep your children safe both at school and when using their home computers? How can you engage parents to both understand the serious nature of this issue and partner with you to protect their children? This workshop deciphers the dangers of sexual predators online, explores the methods they use to disguise their identities and intents, and focuses on how to respond when a child in your care has unknowingly made contact with a pedophile. Additionally, this program will provide age appropriate strategies to educate youth about this danger.

Recommended audiences: Middle and High School Students, Parents, Teachers/Administrators

Teaching Tough Topics

The number of “tough topics” faced by youth in today’s world continues to climb. Therefore, teachers and mentors have both a growing responsibility and important opportunity to address such issues in an honest and sensitive manner. How can you engage students in a meaningful discussion about difficult topics? How can you engage their parents? Prevention Educators provides this customized workshop to discuss strategies for communicating with youth and their parents openly and honestly, while remaining age-appropriate. Our trainers will also examine methods for “containing” classrooms and responding to difficult students who disrupt these important conversations.

Recommended audiences: Teachers/Administrators

Educator Sexual Misconduct

Prevention Educators has worked with schools in the aftermath of educator sexual misconduct. We can provide several levels of support to school communities following the knowledge of this crime including student psychoeducational workshops that explore gender and power dynamics in the classroom and allow for processing of the experience. Prevention Educators also provides parent and faculty training on the topic, including warning signs and strategizing how to minimize your school’s risk. PE trainers will work with your school to develop policies related to sexual misconduct, assault, and abuse as well.

Recommended audiences: Elementary, Middle School, and High School Teachers/Administrators, Parents, Students

Safe Schools

This workshop focuses on interpersonal violence and safety issues in schools today. PE trainers will focus on basic crisis intervention skills related to minimizing and managing risk elements. Case studies will be presented and participants will be engaged in creating action plans for safety in their classrooms and schools.

Recommended audiences: Teachers/Administrators

Gang Violence: Decoding Signs

Adolescent gangs are not just an inner-city phenomenon, yet many school administrators and educators believe that their neighborhoods and school communities are immune to gangs and gang violence. This workshop explores the reasons that teens join gangs, break down gang signals and codes and provide strategies for school and community intervention.

Recommended audiences: Teachers/Administrators

Developing An Effective Anti-Violence Program For Your School

Although periodic training from outside sources is a critical step in creating a safe school environment, Prevention Educators strives to assist each school in creating consistent, long-term safety for their entire educational community. This customized workshop will engage your teachers, parents, staff and administrators to partner together in re-examining your school’s current anti-violence programs and related policies. Prevention Educators will compare your policies/programs with local and national best practice models in order to identify action steps for improving your school’s response to all levels of violence.

Recommended audiences: Teachers/Administrators