School resource officers (SRO)

The National Institute of Justice has released two research reports on investigating the effectiveness of school resource officers (SROs):

• Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Study of Police in Schools. This study assesses the effects of SROs on school disciplinary offenses and actions. The research addresses whether the effects of SROs vary by student characteristics, SRO approach, or school and community characteristics.
• School...

Register for upcoming juvenile justice-related webinars on funding, programs, and initiatives. 

OJJDP, in collaboration with the Police Foundation, will present a two-part webinar series on averting school violence. These webinars will address school violence prevention, response, and recovery.

On August 29, 2018, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET, "Learning Lessons From the School Attack That Didn't Happen – The Police Foundation's Averted School Violence Database" will provide an overview of the database that...

The National Association of School Resource Officers will host the 2017 National Leadership Summit: School-Based Policing and School Safety in the 21st Century on May 8-9, 2017, in Hoover, AL. This event is designed to help law enforcement, school personnel, juvenile court judges, and stakeholders address school safety.

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Learn more and register to attend.

See OJJDP's Model Programs Guide to learn about programs promoting school safety.

The National Criminal Justice Training Center will host the School Resource Officer Training Conference on June 13-15, 2017, in Appleton, WI. This training is designed to help law enforcement and school personnel address school violence and youth victimization through crime prevention and response strategies. Presenters will examine the impacts of trauma on youth and discuss strategies for working with students experiencing mental illness and learning disabilities...

By: Robert L. Listenbee, Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with contributions from Keith Towery, Grants Management Specialist, OJJDP

All children deserve a chance—a chance to be safe, to be educated and to be themselves. Too often, this chance is denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, gender nonconforming (LGBTQI-GNC) and Two-Spirit¹ youth. Many of these youth are...