 | Sharpen your parenting skills.
| Emphasize and build on your children's strength.
| Teach your children how to reduce their risks of becoming crime victims.
| Know where your kids are, what they are doing, and whom they are with at all times.
| Help your children learn non-violent ways to handle frustration, anger, and conflict.
| Become involved in your child's school activities - PTA, field trips, and helping out in
class or the lunch room.
| Work with other parents in your neighborhood to start a block
parent program. | |
| Evaluate your school's safety objectively.
| Set targets for improvement.
| Develop consistent disciplinary policies, good security procedures, and a response
plan for emergencies.
| Train school personnel in conflict resolution, problem solving, drug prevention, crisis
intervention, cultural sensitivity, classroom management, and counseling skills.
| Work with students, parents, law enforcement, local governments, and community-
based groups to develop wider-scope crime prevention efforts.
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| Members of the Lawton Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit can report on the type of crimes in the area around the school and
suggest ways to make schools safer.
| Community-based groups, church organizations, and other service groups can provide
counseling, extended learning programs, before and after-school activities, school
watches, and other community crime provention programs.
| State and local governments can develop model school safety plans and provide
funding for schools to implement the programs.
| Local businesses can provide apprenticeship programs, or serve as mentors to area
students.
| Cameron University can offer conflict management courses to teachers or assist
school officials in developing violence prevention curricula.
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