New safe schools project underway

The Sustainable Strategies for Safe Schools project is a dynamic new resource package that targets the building of safe and violence free schools in Ontario. The project was a three-year undertaking led by Dr. Peter Jaffe and Dr Claire Crooks funded by the Trillium Foundation.

The purpose of the project was to produce a practical, research-based resource for principals and educational leaders to use as an individual staff development tool or as a discussion platform for Safe School Committees to enhance school safety.

The project was designed to bridge the gap between having Safe School programs we know work and having them implemented in an integrated and sustainable manner in every school in Ontario.

Dr. Jaffee says, "In order for there to be genuine sustainable change, one has to think about sustainable change at the outset, and develop a detailed plan for goals, their implementation and ongoing evaluation in advance."

The user friendly resource package will be distributed to every school in Ontario.