Support Materials: A Few Examples

Training on:

• Violence: understanding, prevention and intervention
• The intervention strategy for healthy, safe schools (a structured and concerted framework)
• Guiding and supporting school communities in implementing their strategy to prevent and deal with violence

Workshops on:

• Mobilizing the school team to develop and implement an intervention strategy
• Helping the school team to avoid suspending and expelling students
• Preventing violence and encouraging harmonious relations: early intervention with children aged 4 to 8
• Guiding students from childhood through to adolescence: the transition from elementary to secondary school
• Helping school communities to develop agreements with law enforcement officials concerning police intervention in educational institutions.

Questionnaires

• Self-portrait of action taken by the school to prevent and deal with violence
• Self-portrait of forms of violence in the school

Other tools

• Poster about the school’s local strategy for preventing and dealing with violence in the school (French only)
• Principal’s checklist for intervening in cases of bullying and violence (French only)
• Guide to protection factors aimed at preventing and dealing with violence in the school
• Preventing the need to suspend and expel students with adaptation or behavioural difficulties in secondary school (Guide for school staff)
• Reference tool: supporting school communities in implementing their local strategies to prevent and deal with violence.

To obtain these documents, contact your school board, which will direct you to the appropriate resource-person.