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Violence Prevention and Intervention

VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS
Supported by Fairfax County Public Schools

Chart (PDF file*) of Programs and Grade Level Taught
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• Al's Pals Kids Making Healthy Choices
  • Ages 3-8
  • 46 Lessons
  • Resiliency based Early Childhood Program; personal, social, and emotional skills including expressing feelings appropriately; caring about others, self-control, problem-solving, and making friends.
• Guiding Good Choices
  • for parents with one joint session for parents and children
  • 4 sessions
  • Strengthens and clarifies family expectations for behavior; teaches skills for communication, resisting drugs/violence; promotes family meetings
• Leadership and Resiliency (Community Services Board (CSB) sponsored)
  • 14-17 years old
  • in Alternative High Schools
  • Weekly throughout the school year
  • Enhances resiliency through building internal strengths; includes alternative activities and community service components
• Life Skills Training (LST)
  • Curricula for elementary (8-11 year olds) and middle school (11-14 year olds) with focus on tobacco, alcohol and marijuana
  • used as after-school program in some middle and high school sites
  • 10-12 sessions first year with booster sessions for 2nd and 3rd year
    
  • interactive sessions promote self-esteem, self-efficiency, ability to make sound decisions, and ability to resist media and peer pressure.
    
  • Highly successful program with outstanding long-term results
• Olweus Bullying Prevention
  • multi-level, multi-component school-based program designed to prevent or reduce bullying in elementary and middle school
  • focus on school climate with total involvement of school staff
  • highly successful whole school model
• Second Step
  • preschool through junior high
  • implemented in all elementary schools
    
  • interactive social skills model designed to reduce impulsive, high-risk aggressive behaviors and increase emotional-social competence
  • 3 skill areas include empathy, impulse control, and anger management
  • teacher friendly program uses story cards to promote discussion; strong research outcomes
• Too Good for Drugs and Violence (TGFDV)
  • separate curricula for all grade levels being implemented by SSAW and principals in high schools as an after-school or alternative in-school program for targeted youth
  • highly interactive teaching methods
  • focus on personal/interpersonal skills, appropriate attitudes toward drugs and violent-related behaviors, knowledge of negative consequences, and positive peer norms.
  • optional component for after-school programs purchased for Middle School/After School programs
  • strong research base and outcomes
• Get Real About Violence (GRAV)
  • Grades 4-6; Grades 6-9
  • Provided to all Middle Schools in 1998; currently being implemented as an after-school program in middle schools and also in community based sites
  • SSAW, CSB & Community Recreation Services (CRS) as a collaborative project
  • 12 lessons focus on vulnerability to violence, contributors to violence including the role of the by-stander and alternatives to violence; interactive lessons promotes excellent discussions and skill practice opportunities; refusal, self-control, and conflict resolution skills
  • SSAW and CBS received the 2003 HOPE Award for successful implementation and outcomes of GRAV as an after-school program