CUMENT RESUME ED 361 634 CG 025 029 TITLE Child Safetycurriculum Standards
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 361 634 CG 025 029 TITLE Child SafetyCurriculum Standards. INSTITUTION National School Safety Center, Malibu,CA. SPONS AGENCY Department of Education, Washington, DC.; Office Juvenile Justice of and DelinquentPrevention (Dept. of Justice), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 90 CONTRACT 85-MU-CX-0003 NOTE 239p. PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom Use (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 PlusPostage. DESCRIPTORS Child Abuse; ChildNeglect; *Child Welfare; Curriculum Guides; Early Parenthood;Elementary Secondary Education; Juvenile Gangs;Latchkey Children; Rape;Runaways; *Safety; *School Standards; Substance Safety; Abuse; Suicide;Venereal Diseases; *YouthProblems ABSTRACT This documentpresents a set of child curriculum guidelines safety intended to helpprevent child and to promotesafer living and victimization and adolescents learning environmentsfor children across America. Theseguidelines were help educators,law enfc:rcement developed to personnel, and membersof other youth-serving agenciesteach children how to protect themselvesfrom a variety of dangers.The standards offer be used as sample strategiesthat can a starting point ina more extensive development. Thirteen curriculum sections are includedthat deal specifically with child safetyissues. The standards groups: kindergarten-grade are divided into fiN.,egrade 1, grades 2-3,grades 4-6, grades grades 9-12. Eachsection contains 7-8, and background informationand statistics on thescope of the problem addressed; the keypoints that should be stressedon this topic: a variety of activities tohelp make those key points;and a list of (1) "Bullying" resources. The 13 sectionsare: (Stuart Greenbaumand Brenda Turner); and Neglect" (Shayla (2) "Child Abuse Lever); (3) "Gangs"(Lilia Lopezand Ronald Garrison); (4)"Latchkey Children" (James Campbell);(5) "Non-Family Abductions" (JerriSmock); (6) "ParentalAbductions" (Janet Kosid-Uthe); (7) "Rape"(Claire Walsh); (8) Loken); "Runaways" (Gregory (9) "SexuallyTransmitted Diseases" "Substance Abuse" (Loretta (Marcus Copelan); (10) Middleton and ChristineCampbell); (11) "Suicide" (DianeRyerson and Judie Smith); (Mary Sullivan (12) "Teen Parenting" and Brenda Turner);and (13) "Weapons" (G. Butterfield). A final Ellis section containsa bibliography of 180 resources with orderinginformation. (NB) c**********-A************4************************************ Reproductions suppliedby EDRS are the best that can bemade from the original document. Ic *********************************************************************** Child Safety Curriculum Standards NATIONAL SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER A Partnership of Pepperdine University _441/ and the United States Departments of Justice US DEPARTMENT OfEDUCATION 0,1we of Educabonai Fleseamn and imorovernenl EDUCATIONAL RE SOURCES and Education CE NTER [ERIC)INFORMATION rus document has been bYewed bon, the demon OlleD,Oduced aS ong.naWug Organaalon r Mmot changes Canebeen made 10 ,mornve Saw tegtOduCt.On QuIIt 2 Pbnts Cl oew Or ocamOns slated ment do nOI necessaor .ntl,Sdbl u rep,05n," OF RI positron or Oofir y BEST COPY CHILD SAFETY CURRICULUM STANDARDS National School Safety Center Pepperdine University Malibu, California 90263 3 Child Safety Curriculum Standards National School Safety Center Pepperdine University Malibu, CA 90263 Ronald D. Stephens, Executive Director G. Ellis Butterfield, Deputy Director for Operations Ronald W. Garrison, Field Services Director Bernard James, Special Counsel James E. Campbell, Business Manager Bill E. Henegar, Communications Consultant Executive Editor: Ronald D. Stephens Project Director: G. Ellis Butterfield Project Editor: Suzanne Harper Contributing Editors: Brenda Turner and June Lane Wordprocessor: Kimberly Billingsley and Kristene A. Kenney Copyright @ 1990, Pepperdine University Press. All rights reserved. Manuscript completed: August 1990 Printed in the United States of America Prepared under Grant No. 85-MU-CX-0003 from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Education or Pepperdine University. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Foreword Robert W. Sweet, Jr. Administrator Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Acknowledgements Introduction 2. Bullying Stuart Greenbaum Communications Director NSSC Brenda Turner Communications Specialist NSSC 3. Child Abuse and Neglect Shayla Lever Director, Child Abuse Prevention Office Los Angeles Unified School District 4. Gangs Li lia Lopez Coordinator of Instructional Planning and Development Los Angeles Unified School District Ronald W. Garrison Field Services Director NSSC 5. Latchkey Children James E. Campbell Business Manager NSSC 6. Non-Family Abductions Jerri Smock Consultant Sacramento, CA 7. Parental Abductions Janet Kosid-Uthe Consultant Roseville, CA 8. Rape Claire P. Walsh Director Sexual Assault Recovery Service Unive7sity of Florida 9. Runaways Gregory A. Loken Associate Professor University of Bridgeport Law School 10.Sexually Transmitted Diseases Marcus Cope lan Director of Education American Social Health Associatic 11.Substance Abuse Loretta Middleton Coordinator, Substance Abuse/Student Well-Being Team San Diego County Office of Education Christine Campbell Consultant Westlake Village, CA 12.Suicide Diane Ryerson Consultant American Association of Suicidology Judie Smith Consultant American Association of Suicidology 13. Teen Parenting Mary Sullivan Assistant Principal New Futures School Brenda Turner Communications Specialist NSSC 14. Weapons G. Ellis Butterfield Deputy Director NSSC 15.Bibliography Compiled by Cindy Lea Arbelbide Librarian National Victim Center FOREWARD O Nearly three years ago, the President's Child Safety Partnership recommended that national child safety curriculum standards be developed for use in the schools. The release of this Child Safety Curriculum Standards document, which was compiled by the National School Safety Center and funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevenfion, realizes this important goal. Schools can play a vital role in supporting family efforts to bring sometimes difficult and sensitive issues to a child's attention. While a child's first and most important teachers are their parents, the realities of critical issues such as child abuse and neglect, teen parenting, runaways, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse cannot be ignored in the classroom. Most of today's teachers want to introduce child safety information to their students, but many do not know how. For the first time, age-appropriate child safety curriculum standards now are avail- able to elementary and secondary f....hools nationwide to. integrate into their curricula. Recent research has shown that schools can have a positive effect in teaching children about safety and ways to prevent abduction, running away and sexual exploitation. In addition, schools and parent-teacher groups can be the center of community-based parent education and public awareness programs dealing with child safety. Any comprehensive child safety program must reach beyond the schools to involve parents and the community as well. However, some children may be in less supportive environments, such as a family situation that is abusive or where a parental abduction has occurred. In such cases, these curriculum standayds may help students and school officials alike to identify that a serious problem exists and to notify the proper authorities who can provide aid for these children. Through an effective safety education program, schools also may help youngsters break out of a family cycle of gang involvement, teen pregnancy or substance abuse. Enhancing the safety of our nation's children should be among our foremost goals. These Child Safety Curriculum Standards are intended to help prevent child victdmization and to promote safer living and learning environments for youngsters across America. Robert W. Sweet, Jr. Administrator Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 7 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A number of institutions and persons made valuable contributions to the Child Safety Curriculum Standards project. The National School Safety Center received the needed funds and direction to begin this project from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the leadership of Robert W. Sweet, Jr., Administrator. Additional assistance came from Terry Donahue, in his capacity of Acting Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin- quency Prevention; Pamela Swain, Director of State Relations and Assistance Division; Emily Martin, Director of Training, Dissemination and Technical Assistance Division; and NSSC's program manager, Lois Brown. In particular, NSSC acknowledges Mary Witten Neal, Director of Interagency Operations, U.S. Department of Education, for helping identify experts in several key child safety areas. The American Association of Suicidology, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Social Health Association also identified child safety experts. NSSC is particularly grateful to the authors of the child safety curriculum standards: Bully- ing Stuart Greenbaum and Brenda Turner; Child Abuse and Neglect Shay la Lever; Gang Prevention Liia Lopez and Ronald W. Garrison; Latchkey Children James E. Campbell; Parental Abductions Janet Kosid-Uthe; Rape Claire P. Walsh; Runaways Gregory A. Loken; Sexually