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Welcome to the Center for Safe Schools and Communities Featuring the Peace4Kids and Families social emotional academic competence model Come to our next INTERNATIONAL Peace Fest June 2009 featuring outstanding Evidence-Based social emotional learning programs - The Center for Safe Schools and Communities has taken leadership in developing The Peace4Kids model that is highly effective with aggressive youth. This model took its roots from the original Aggression Replacement Training program developed by the late Arnold P. Goldstein from Syracuse University. His program is well-researched, and effective and is used world-wide with delinquent youths. The Center offers trainings in the Peace4Kids model. Other trainings we offer include character education, K-12 Model Guidance programs, Restorative Justice, Parent Empowerment, conflict mediation, peer helping, effective discipline programs, grant writing, alternative school development and school-wide character education. We are a non-profit organization and our staff is working toward creating a "family" of individuals that improve the way we build social skills and character with children and families.
Conferences Mark your calendar now for our International Conference in 2009. A pre-conference session will be offered --one on grants and another on Restorative Justice. A field trip to the Ridgeview Academy will be featured where you can see a structured juvenile offender program in operation. Plan to save time for the fun weekend trips to the fabulous Rocky mountains. See you in 2009! Curriculum: The Center has developed the Peace Curriculum that features supplemental A.R.T. lessons reflected in the acronym PEACE--P--Parent Empowerment, E-Empathy, A-Anger Management--C--Character Education and E-Essential Social Skills. In addition to The Peace Curriculum, we have additional curriculum in Model Guidance (k-12), student mentoring, conflict mediation, peer helping, Restorative Justice and school-wide character education. Parent Component: A Parent and Family Program has been developed that creates social bonding among families and within families while teaching the social skills within the family unit. This program establishes long-term effectiveness with families. Discipline System: A highly-structured discipline system that includes rules, recognitions, points and level system has been refined over time and is highly successful with oppositional students and creates an atmosphere that will help students master their social skills in order to achieve academic and social success. Materials: We have developed some fantastic materials that help students learn social emotional learning skills. They include: -
Pre-K, elementary, middle and high school curriculum -
Advisement Curriculum for Middle and High School -
Twelve-week pull out curriculum for elemtnary and secondary students -
Elementary and Secondary Planners emphasizing character -
Character Story Book -
Elementary and Secondary Classroom Posters -
Character cards for elementary and secondar -
Elementary Goal Setting Book with the Character Kids Trainings: Look in our Workshop Section to read about the growing number of trainings we offer across the country. Our monthly schedule is posted in the Calendar Section. You may also schedule a training by calling Sara, Renee, or Amie at 303 828 9733. Grants: We have been quite successful in helping school districts and organizations write grants to do these programs effectively. Our grant writer, Ron Mirr, from Iowa City, is available to help people both learn to write grants as well as write and edit. Staff: The Center is operated by a staff that includes Sara Salmon, Ph.D., Executive Director, Renee Kuban, Office Manager, Amie Crouch Materials Developer and Nora Luna, assistant, in Colorado. See the Staff section for more details. Sara Salmon, our Executive Director We need volunteers for our organization. Please consider helping us; we need writers, fundraisers, word processors, games developers and people with contacts. Center for Safe Schools 303 828 9733 3663 Vestal Loop, Colorado 80023 Shirley (Sara) Salmon, Ph.D., Executive Director |
