New Jersey School Security

Electronic Media and Youth Violence: A CDC Issue Brief for Educators and Caregivers
This is a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and the Adolescent Goals Team. The brief summarizes what is known about young people and electronic aggression, provides strategies for addressing the issue with young people, and discusses the implications for school staff, education policy makers, and parents and caregivers.

Electronic Aggression Tipsheet
This tipsheet from the CDC provides parents and caregivers with strategies for protecting children from any type of harassment or bullying that occurs through e-mail, a chat room, instant messaging, a website, blogs, or text messaging.

Mitigating Hazards in School Facilities
This guidance from the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilitates provides information for making school safety and security assessments and for planning, funding, and implementing safety and security improvements. Includes 25 downloadable, subject-specific assessment guides.

SMART School Tool
The School Multi-hazard Assessment & Resource Tool is a FREE web-based interactive program that schools can use to help achieve greater levels of safety, security and health through an “all-hazards” approach to reducing and managing risk.

Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET)
JUSTNET is a program of the Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice (NIJ). JUSTNET provides FREE materials on school safety and security issues.

Service Learning: A Strategy for Keeping Youth in Schools
This three day Institute from December 3-5, 2008, will reinforce principles of high quality effective service learning, help educators understand the dropout crisis, explore how service learning promotes positive youth development and prevents dropouts, and allow participants to choose a model of service learning to investigate. A grant is available through the Institute for Global Education & Service Learning to attend the Institute. Applications are due November 7, 2008.
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IS-100.SC Introduction to the Incident Command System, I-100, for Schools
The Emergency Management Institute developed the Introduction to ICS for Schools (IS-100.SC for Schools) course in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education. The course is designed primarily for kindergarten through high school personnel.

NJ Department of Education Social Norms Project
The Social Norms Project was created in partnership with the Center for Addiction Studies at Rowan University. Further information and to apply to be considered for the Social Norms Project for the 2008-2009 school year can be found on this site.

Rutgers Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Project
This program was created in partnership with the NJ Department of Education. This site is designed to assist educators and community partners throughout NJ with guidance on effective drug, alcohol, and violence prevention programming.

Keeping Our Kids Safe Provides additional policies, guidelines, and resources for districts that are supported by the department's Safe and Drug Free Schools Unit.

NJDOE School Security Unit Training & Service Request Form (PDF | Microsoft Word)
To request any trainings or services please complete a Training and Service Request form and submit it to the School Security Unit via fax or e-mail. All requests will be reviewed and approved based upon priority and staffing availability.