Safe2Tell For Schools

For Schools

What Can You Do?

Communicate with staff, students, parents, local law enforcement and community members about the Safe2Tell resource, how it is preventive and proactive and how it works!
Get the Safe2Tell information into the hands of your students (various resources available)
Sign up for the quarterly Safe2Tell e-newsletter
Order a Safe2Tell Banner featuring your School Name
When you receive a Safe2Tell Report – return your Disposition Form!
If you need a Safe2Tell training presentation – contact our administrative office

Make sure your school’s most recent contact information is on file with Safe2Tell via the “Safe2Tell Program Enrollment Form” (see below)

RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS:

Department of Education Resources:

Helpful Hints

REMS Express Newsletters

“Highlights from the Field“
“Collaboration: Key to a Successful Partnership“

THE FACTS – School Crime and Violence Statistics

These statistics are just a few of the reasons every school in every community needs Safe2Tell™. Currently suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among Colorado’s youth. We want students to know it is a betrayal of a friend NOT to tell when someone needs help.

Study by the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Association of School Psychologists

160,000 children miss school daily because they are afraid of someone or something.
In 75% of violence in U.S. schools, someone other than the attacker knew it was going to happen.
Domestic violence is the most unreported crime in the U.S.
70% of all sexual assaults go unreported.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007
National Center for Education Statistics
2005-06 School Year

There were 17 school-associated violent deaths from July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2006 (14 homicides and 3 suicides) among youth ages 5-18.
86 percent of public schools reported one or more serious violent incidents, violent incidents, or thefts.
14 percent of students in grades 9-12 reported that they had been in a fight on school property.
6 percent of students in grades 9-12 reported they had carried a weapon on school property during the previous 30 days.
4 percent of students in grades 9-12 reported having consumed at least one drink on school property during the previous 30 days.
6 percent of students ages 12-18 reported that they were afraid of attack or harm at school.
7 percent of teachers were threatened with injury by a student from their school in the 2003-04 school year.
3 percent of teachers reported being physically attacked in 2003-04 school year.

The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative:
Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
U. S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education
July 2004

In 81 percent of school attacks at least one person had information that the attacker was thinking about or planning the incident.
There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.
Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack.
Most attackers had no history of prior violent or criminal behavior.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety (2003) Study.

29% of all students in grades 9-12 say drugs were made available to them on school property.
In 2001, 17% of students in grades 9-12 say they carried a weapon somewhere, and 6% say they carried a weapon on school property.
In 1999-2000 an estimated 1.5 million violent incidents occurred in public elementary and secondary schools.
71% of public schools experienced one or more violent incidents…but only 36% of schools reported these incidents to the police.

Ask the Children: Youth & Violence
Colorado Students Speak out for a More Civil Society
The Colorado Trust 2002

46 percent of young people grades 5-12 have been hit, shoved, kicked or tripped at least once in the past month.
32 percent of young people, grades 5-12 have been bullied at least once in the past month.
9 percent of young people, grades 5-12 have been attacked with a weapon at least once in the past month.
40 percent of Colorado principals report that serious violent incidents have occurred at their schools versus 29 percent of principals in the national sample.