School & Crisis Recovery & Renewal
The School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project offers resources and support to help schools recover and heal from crises through a trauma-informed and equity-centered approach.
Whole School Prevention Planning
Sanctuary Model for Trauma-Informed Organizations
The Sanctuary Model is a theory-based approach to changing and sustaining a trauma-informed organizational culture has . Website has information on Organizational Assessment and other resrouces to support a trauma-informed workforce.
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Safe Space Toolkit
Guide provides strategies to support LGBTQ students, educate about anti-LGBTQ bias, advocate for changes in your school. The kit guides making an assessment of school’s climate, policies and practices.
Safe and Successful Schools Framework
This framework provides policy recommendations and best practices for improving school safety for children and youth, and includes a section on actions principals can take to promote safe and successful schools.
Safe & Supportive Learning: Physical Safety
The Safe and Supportive Learning resource on physical safety provides information and tools to help schools create safe physical environments. It covers topics such as emergency preparedness, violence prevention, and infrastructure safety, offering guidelines and strategies to ensure the well-being of students and staff.
Resources for Schools after a Shooting
Compiled resources for schools and caregivers to understand common reactions about a catestropic event such as a school shooting, how to support students and school communities, and includes guides and fact sheets.
Reimagine Justice Illinois
Organization within Illinois that provides advocacy, professional development, needs assessment, action planning and implementation to communties and organizations wanting to develop adult social and emotional leanring, restorative practices, clutire and climate work in schools, bullying prevention, and healing-centered work.
Reflections from the Field: Strategic Communications for State System Leaders Navigating Times of Social Conflict podcast
Podcast aims to provide leaders with practical guidance and vivid approaches to strategic communications in our current context of social and political polarization. The call to action in the audiocast is: effective strategic communications is values-driven and bi-directional.
It is fueled by deep listening, patient persistence, and authentic relationships.
Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report
In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.
Positive School Climate: Bullying and Harassment Prevention and Education
The “Positive School Climate: Bullying and Harassment Prevention and Education” guide by the Colorado School Safety Resource Center provides a comprehensive framework for schools to prevent and address bullying and harassment. It includes best practices, policy guidelines, evidence-based programs, and resources from various Colorado agencies and organizations, emphasizing an integrated approach to create a safe and respectful school environment.
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