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AUTHOR Owens, Bill; Salazar, Ken TITLE Keeping 's Kids Safe. Special Report from the Summit on School Safety and the Prevention of Youth Violence. INSTITUTION Colorado Office of the Governor, Denver. PUB DATE 1999-08-00 NOTE 13p.; This report is from the Summit on School. Safety and the Prevention of Youth Violence (Denver, CO, June 19, 1999). PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Early Intervention; Elementary Secondary Education; *Prevention; *School Security; Student Welfare; *Violence; Youth Problems IDENTIFIERS Colorado

ABSTRACT This report offers highlights of a special summit in Colorado during which policymakers and citizens discussed the many causes and possible solutions to youth violence. It opens with the statement that solutions start with family, community, faith, and a culture that reinforces the lessons of right and wrong. It advocates connecting every child with a caring adult, creating gang-free communities, keeping guns away from kids, holding parents accountable for raising their children, helping kids who need it most, and providing a safe school for every child. Among the recommendations found in the report were to establish a statewide gang initiative in the Colorado Attorney General's Office; raise the age from 18 to 21 for purchasing firearms at gun shows; require safe storage of firearms in the home; provide more early identification and better referral to intervention services for high-risk children; speed up termination of parental rights in cases of severe abuse, neglect, or abandonment; promote responsible fatherhood; increase government/faith-based partnerships; increase government/business partnerships targeting kids who would benefit the most; change confidentiality laws to allow schools and law-enforcement agencies to share information; and enforce state laws regarding school codes of conduct and zero tolerance of inappropriate behavior.(RJM)

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SUMMIT ON SCHOOL

SAFE-TY ANDTHE

PREVENTIONI OF

YOUTH VIOLENCE

GOVERNOR BILL OWENS AND ATTORNEY GENERAL AUGUST 1999

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Keeping Colorado's Kids Safe

BY GOVERNOR BILL OWENS AND ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN SALAZAR

"On July Fourth, I was hiking with a group of friends up outside Estes Park.

As we rounded a corner down by a stream, we were immediately filled with

joy at seeing the trail flanked on both sides with our beautiful state flower.

But as soon as someone said, 'Look at the Columbine' we stopped seeing

the flowers and only felt a deep pit in our stomach."

A lifelong Colorado citizen

I_ _I he events of April 20, 1999, The Summit was about youth laws might not be the solution. Every have left a gaping hole in violence in all its formsin schools, time a youth commits a crime, he or Coloradans' hearts.It is on the streets, by gangs, or by loners. she breaks laws already on the books. more than the horror at the destruction Youth violence impacts every More laws won't stop these crimes. and death and innocence lost.It is community in our state.It is an urban, Therefore, it is not the intent of this the nagging question: Where have we suburban and rural issue that knows report to present a detailed, item by gone wrong, and can we do anything no racial, ethnic or income boundaries. item legislative agenda. Rather, the to fix it? Importantly, youth violence is much purpose of the Summit and this report In a search for answers, on June 19, broader than the relatively rare but is to engage policymakers and citizens 1999, we convened the Summit on sensational acts of school violence. in a discussion of the many causes and School Safety and the Prevention of Weapons in schools and gang violence possible solutions to youth violence. Youth Violence. The Summit brought have plagued our cities for far too long. Because there is no single cause together children, parents, teachers, And unlike the massacre at Columbine of youth violence, there can be no school administrators, law enforcement High School, most often youth violence single solution. Rather, responsibility officers, youth counselors, mentors, happens one child at a time. Sadly, rests with all of us as individuals ministers and dozens of others who it has become all too common for to make those changes which will are devoted to finding ways to children under the age of 18 to assault, make a difference. reduce youth violence. The Summit rape and even murderso common We heard again and againfrom the accomplished its goal of beginning a that at times it seems not to shock us. adults as well as the youthssome process of listening and learning. At the Summit, we heard that more good old-fashioned common sense:

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Students at the Summit raise their hands after being asked if they had seen guns in their schools.

The solutions start with family, their highest duty in life is to be a good us that they are examples." community and faith.The solutions mom or dad.That means putting your One participant at the Summit, a require a culture that children before minister, admonished fellow clergy and reinforces the lessons "Moms and dads need yourself.It means churches to "to stop preaching only of right and wrong to teach their children fathers who make a from church pulpits but to go out in the we work so hard to commitment to be streets as well." The comment instill in our children. right from wrong. 0 don'tthere daily for their underscores the need for the faith Curbing youth children. It means community to play a larger role in violence requires think it Us a school's knowing where reaching out to troubled youth, at-risk children to be responsUIbUUoty to pick up your teenager goes, families and in providing after-school connected with a whom they talk to opportunities for students. caring adult to the pieces of what's and what they learn To a large degree, a sense of right provide them critical gone wrong at home." when surfing the and wrong flows from faith. With a guidance in how to Internet. popular culture that bombards us be a responsible High school youth As one youth at constantly with the blurring of right individual. participant at Summit the Summit said: and wrong, that says if it feels good, The solution to "It begins in our just do it, that glorifies pornography, youth violence lies primarily in our homes. We need to have parents violence and hate, it often requires a homes and in our communities.It will teaching us the right morals and the strong faith to find one's way. come when every parent recognizes that right values. Our parents need to show The solutions to youth violence do

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not lie solely in the State Capitol and the government cannot force models. The solutions will come building in Denver. We cannot institute children to have good moral values community by community; by a blanket, one-size-fits-all policy or have a strong faith. reaching out to those less fortunate regarding school safety: the issues Rather, the solutions to youth and providing a helping hand. facing a 1,700 student high school in violence will come one person at a time; One thing government can do is Aurora may be far different than those by turning off a violent and profane to create a framework that strengthens facing a high school in Eads with a total television show. The solutions will the family rather than undermining it. student body of 35. The government come one family at a time; by providingA framework that builds up cannot make people be good parents children with love and good role communities rather than tears them down. A framework that provides opportunities for people to help one another rather than placing barriers in the way of people helping people. Thus we propose a number of steps that will aid our citizens, families and communities as they struggle to heal themselves and curb youth violence. We do not pretend to have all the answers to the problem of youth violence. No report is going to provide a magic cure for what ails too many of our children. The following are some steps that will head us in the right direction. A high school student in the audience provided a very telling remark near the end of the Summit. He noted that while everyone is discussing the responsibility of others to address youth violence, youth themselves need to take responsibility for their own actions, as he does. This is a reminder that most of the kids in our communities are terrific. They are the product of first-rate parents, teachers and community support.

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SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Gangs and Guns Establish a statewide gang Raise from 18 to 21 the Include juvenile records in initiative in the Colorado age for purchasing firearms background checks for Attorney General's Office at gun shows firearms purchases

Require background checks Ban "straw purchases" of Require safe storage of for firearm purchases at firearms at gun shows firearms in the home gun shows

Parental Responsibility and Community Involvement Establish Governor's Raise from $3,500 to $25,000 Increase government / business Commission on Mentoring and the parental liability for the illegal partnerships targeting kids who Volunteerism to focus attention acts of their children would benefit the most and resources on expanding Promote positive early childhood Promote affordable, positive community mentoring programs development and parenting skills after-school options for children Provide more early identification i.e., Scouts, mentoring, boys Promote responsible fatherhood and better referral to and girls clubs, faith-based intervention services for high- Strict enforcement of child organizations risk children support obligations Diminish children's exposure to Speed up termination of parental Increase government / faith- graphic violence by encouraging rights in cases of severe abuse, based partnerships businesses, parents, schools and neglect or abandonment community institutions to cooperate in appropriately limiting access to such materials

Safe and Orderly Schools Change confidentiality laws Every public schoolbut Partner with outside to allow schools and law especially high schools agencies and faith-based enforcement agencies to should promote more organizations to provide share information parental involvement in the more youth counseling classroom services in schools Enforce state laws regarding school codes of Expand alternative schools Promote effective truancy conduct and zero for high-risk kids programs tolerance of inappropriate Increase safety through Foster innovative programs behavior review of physical facilities for connecting with kids in Establish an independent, of schools and crisis plans larger schools i.e., third-party hotline for in place schools within schools students to report violations 6

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Connecting Every Child with a Caring Adult

"A hid can never have too many mentors, too many people investing in their lives." High school youth participant at Summit

very child needs a strong mentors. The Commission will be in serving their neighbors. Community connection with a caring adult. aided by an effort to target more organizations and faith-based For the majority of kids, this means prevention resources at mentoring organizations often succeed where their parents. However, because not initiatives. Providing consistent government programs fail, because they every child is fortunate enough to be guidance by mentors can help to reduce take an holistic approach to raised by a caring mother and father, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse and intervention that looks at the whole other strategies must be used to connectyouth violence.As one high school person. Much more than providing with childrento ensure they are participant at the Summit said: "We services, community and faith-based learning the right lessons organizations change that will prepare them for lives. a life of responsible Mentors, clergy and adulthood. But this takes community volunteers time. As one Summit should be welcomed into participant said: "Giving schools to assist money shows that you overworked school have money. But giving counselors. Teenage your time to an mothers should be individual child shows to referred by welfare that child that he or she agencies to organizations is important." that will welcome them Study after study has and their child into caring proven that in the Dean Askew of Street Beat talks about the importance of mentoring arms. Schools should absence of a strong family, in keeping kids out of gangs. partner with civic groups mentoring programs, such as Scout troops and youth community centers, clergy and learn by example. We need role faith-based organizations to provide counselors are all integral parts to models." after school activities in the school ensuring that every child has a positive Many nonprofits, faith-based building that is already often a role model to guide them through institutions and other organizations community center and which is childhood and the treacherous waters ofalready run mentoring programs in sometimes underutilized after school adolescence. Unfortunately, right now inColorado. They need to be supported hours. Colorado, thousands of kids are waiting and strengthened doing so will be When faith-based organizations are for mentors waiting for a caring the mission of the Commission on involved, it is vital to observe the adult to enter their lives. Mentoring and Volunteerism. separation of church and state by Thus our highest priority will be to Governments can spend money, but ensuring that participation is always connect these kids with caring adults. they cannot provide hope, love and the voluntary and does not discriminate Through a newly created Governor's caring one-on-one relationships against anyone. Commission on Mentoring and children need. It is often only in These are just a few of the steps that Volunteerism, we will focus attention nonprofit agencies and faith-based must be taken to ensure that every child and resources on helping to recruit, organizations that we find volunteers in Colorado is connected to as many train and mobilize thousands of willing to make long-term investments caring adults as possible. 7

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Creating Keeping Guns Away from Kids

Gang Free "I couldn't go to anybody at school and say "So and So has a gun," Communities because they'd just tell me to leave that person alone."

"I knew I had to get out of the High school youth participant at Summit gang or I was going to die." ince 1968, federal law has `straw purchases' of firearmswhen Youth participant at Summit prohibited gun dealers from selling someone is obviously buying guns for handguns to persons under the age of someone ineligible to buy them We recently heard of a gang twenty-one and selling long-guns to should be outlawed at gun shows, just initiation where a 15-year- those under eighteen. But this as federal law currently bans these sales old boy was forced to stand and take prohibition applies only to licensed at retail outlets. There should be severe two minutes of vicious beating from firearms dealers, not to unlicensed penalties for the "straw purchasers" who other gang members. When it was sellers at gun shows. circumvent the law by buying firearms over, he was required to embrace his Thus Colorado can and should do for those who are banned from attackers. Asked why he submitted to more to limit purchasing these this torture, the boy answered: "I access to guns by firearms themselves. knew this was going to hurt really youths. First, the Coloradostate law Colorado already bad, but I felt that if I could take it federal age limits should be amended to has laws against for just a couple of minutes, I'd be should be keeping harmful surrounded by people who loved expanded to require criminal items such as me." include firearms background checks on pesticides, cleaners Children drawn to gangs are often sold at gun shows, and poisons within in search of affection, affirmation, a not just those sold firearm purchasers at accessible reach of sense of belonging, or out of a sense by retailers. children. Making it of hopelessness about their future. Federal law gun shows, thus closing explicitly clear that The most effective way to reduce gang currently mandates a gaping loophole. firearms should be violence is to prevent children from criminal kept away from joining gangs in the first place. To do background checks children's reach so requires greater support for gang only for persons who seek to purchase when not in use would strengthen these prevention and intervention services. firearms through retail outlets. Coloradolaws. Adults who fail to take such A step in this direction will be the state law should be amended to require reasonable steps to prevent young establishment in the Colorado criminal background checks on firearm people from gaining access to guns Attorney General's Office of a new purchasers at gun shows, thus closing a should be subject to criminal penalties. state gang initiative.This initiative gaping loophole. Finally, juvenile records should be will include assisting local authorities One national study of the firearms- included in background checks of with combating gangs by gathering related behavior of criminally active people attempting to purchase guns. intelligence statewide about gangs youth currently serving time in Background checks are intended to and providing detailed information, maximum-security juvenile corrections prevent criminals from buying a gun, "best practices" and other resources to facilities found that fully one third of and if a 21-year-old tries to buy a gun, help communities combat gangs. those juvenile offenders said they had we should know if they used a gun in a After all, gangs do not observe city acquired firearms by persuading adults crime as a 17-year-old. and county lines on a map when to make the purchase.These so-called staking out territory. 8

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Hold Parents Accountable for the Raising of Children

"The thing that molds us the most is our family, or lack thereof." High school youth participant at Summit

aising children is tough. No parentthan from what adults say. problems. In such casesand is perfect. But parenting means Parents who are never around harm aespecially where one or both parents taking responsibility to provide a stable, child's development in many ways. continue to abuse substancesparental permanent and loving home for Unfortunately, in too many cases today, rights should be swiftly terminated. children. Unfortunately, too many it is easy for fathers to shirk their The child should quickly be placed in a people today think nothing of bringing responsibilities in raising children. safe and secure adoptive home. Doing a child into the world and then Colorado should establish a legal so will require Colorado to make sure absolving themselves from any framework that makes it difficult for the adoption process is child-centered. responsibility for raising the child. fathers to ignore their paternal This will require streamlining court and Values expressed and modeled at responsibilities. administrative procedures to get home, at school and in the community Colorado should speed up children into permanent, loving homes are essential throughout a child's life. A termination of parental rights in cases as soon as possible. safe and nurturing early childhood where parents abuse, neglect or Finally, parents need to understand enhances growth, curiosity, confidence abandon their children. Drug that they can be held liable for the acts and the capacity to communicate and addiction, sex crimes and imprisonmentof their children. After all, letting learn. Children of all ages need their of the parent should be grounds for teenagers roam the streets at night to parents and teachers to hold them, courts to terminate parental rights. "just do it" is a sign of parental neglect. nurture then, read to them, talk with Mothers and fathers should be held Therefore, Colorado should raise the them and model their language and criminally responsible if they abuse a current limit of $3,500 for parental environment. Often children pick up child in the womb and it is born with liability for the illegal acts of their much more from the way adults act drug, alcohol or other parental induced children to $25,000. 1=1

Helping the Kids Who Need it Most "You give me your money so I'll give your kids what you are not time." Summit participant There is a saying that a youth who Schools should be able to make a more they can turn to ask where to get help. commits a violent crime on informed decision as to whether a This referral service should have a Saturday night is likely to be violent at student's actions are normal adolescent community-wide network of school Monday morning. At the first behavior or rather part of a larger and organizations and people ready to help indication that a child is at-risk of more serious pattern of emerging troubled youth. Some kids will need a committing violent behavior, he or she violence. YetincrediblyColorado's mentor or a youth center, others a should become part of a safety net to "confidentiality" rules often prevent church to shepherd them. Still others prevent their behavior from escalating schools, law enforcement and mental will need to enter counseling with their out of control. health systems from sharing this kind ofparents or receive intensive mental Strengthening this safety net requires information. health treatment. Some may need to be opening the lines of communication A strong safety net for high-risk taken from abusive parents and placed between schools, law enforcement, youth requires one more important stepup for adoption. Others may enter into mental health professionals and others. a strong referral system. Regardless ofthe justice system and need boot camps If a teacher sees disturbing behavior in who identifies a youth in trouble a or be placed in the custody of the youth a student, he or she should be able to teacher, police officer, counselor, or corrections systems in order to change find out from the police if the student even a parentthere should be a their behavior as well as to protect has ever been in trouble with the law. resource in every community where society. 9

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Providing A Safe School for Every Child "I didn't trust the principal or the teachers. I didn't trust anybody." High school youth participant at Summit

very student in Colorado deserves that should guide public a safe and orderly public school. schools in their safety Students also deserve an educational decisions. First, every environment where they feel welcome school must establish and supported.Certainly every public clear standards for school should be weapon and drug free. behavior. In fact, But schools also must be orderly, with this is already required every child at a school where the by existing Colorado expectation is they will be ready to law, which requires learn. Our schools must be places that every public 0 where students have clear expectations "school district C.' about their behavior toward other prepare a written Code of Conduct Ho instanceabad and distribute it to students and parents. behavior should be Second, enforcing overlooked whether each school's conduct code must be absolute. committed by star Again and again at the athlete or gang member. Summit, students spoke of the need for trust among students and toward faculty. Students students, teachers also must have a clear understanding of and administrators. the consequences of bad behaviorand Today, too many I there should be such consequences. students do not feel In Colorado, decisions regarding that everyone is treated public school safety must generally be fairly. Therefore, no Attorney General Ken Salazar and Governor Bill Owens made school by schooldepending on instance of bad behavior recite the Pledge ofAllegiance at the Summit the needs of local communities. After should be overlooked However, expelled students need all, urban school districts with dozens whether committed by the somewhere better to go than just the of schools and tens of thousands of valedictorian, star athlete or gang streets. Therefore, a much stronger students face very different issues than amember. Zero tolerance for violations network of alternative institutions rural school district with a few hundred is essential when dealing with the safety for troublemakers should be utilized. students in one or two schools. A of school children.It is wrong and Students who are expelled or at statewide and uniform public school unfair to keep an unruly student in a risk of being expelled should safety law with one-size-fits-all classroom, where the other students pay have more opportunities to attend mandates cannot account for these the price for the disruptions. Therefore, alternative schools for at-risk critical differences across the state. suspension and expulsion policies students. Innovative strategies for However, there are general principlesshould be strictly enforced. funding more of these alternative

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Providing a Safe School for Every Child(continued from page 9) schools will need to be explored. Unfortunately, somewhere between the and to lead lessons where they have a Keeping kids in school is important transition from elementary to middle special expertise. to the individual child, the school, school, parental involvement drops Finally, public schools should work and the community. There are a significantly. By high school, it is rare to increase partnerships with outside number of very successful truancy to find a parent in a public school agencies. Public schools should forge programs that are already in place in classroom helping out. But, teenagers partnerships with law enforcement, volunteer counselors, faith- based initiatives, scout troops, mentoring programs, and other agencies to create safe, enriching programs for after f school hours. This may mean school ,Ar, district buses letting children off in the afternoon

V "0 outside a local community center L Attorney General Ken Salazar introduces a youth panel at the Summit running after- school programs. Colorado school districts. The key need parents just as much as do our Or, it may mean a local pastor or to these successful programs is the younger children. other volunteers overseeing a youth cooperative efforts, and common Therefore, every public school program in the gymnasium of the objectives, between the school in the state should promote parental public high school. district, the student's parents, the involvement in the school. Every As we said earlier, each school community and the court system. public high school, junior high and must tailor its school safety plan to fit These existing truancy programs elementary school should consider its own community's needs. There are, need to be assessed and utilized providing parents with a pamphlet however, a number of successful, by communities across Colorado. that clearly spells out many specific programssome already in A third principle for safe schools is opportunities for them to get place in Coloradothat schools may that parents must be encouraged and involvednot just in after-school want to consider. welcomed into the classroom and the activities or evening committees An important one is student warning school. Visit just about any elementary but in the lifeblood of the school: and reporting programs that enable school in Colorado, and you are bound the classroom.Parents should be students and faculty to immediately to find parents working in the welcomed into public high school warn authority of a danger or crime. classroom, helping with class projects classrooms to serve as tutors, as Many students at the Summit expressed and being engaged with the children. teacher aids or hallway monitors the concern that even when they know

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the rules are being violated, they are If they have not done so recently, Finally, middle schools and high concerned for their own safety and feel schools may want to consider a schools are now often very large. We they have no one to tell that a rule is comprehensive review of their physical need to examine options to ensure that being broken. Therefore, reporting facilities and the way such facilities students cannot 'anonymously' go programs should truly be third party could beenhanced to increase safety. through years of schooling without and independent. Students said they Studentsmade it clear at the Summit really connecting with other students would call a hotline that they do not and school staff and faculty. The only if they could be want to turn their Everyublic schooD anonymity found in some big schools guaranteed anonymity. public schools makes the earlier identification of Since there is so much in the state should into armed potential problems all that much harder. mistrust, hotlines at welcome parental camps. From physically smaller schools to individual schools may Nevertheless, "schools within schools" and more have only limited involvement. there may be structured homeroom periods, potentialhence the some common Colorado's schools have many options Every high schooD need for one at an sense changes to diminish the alienation that some independent source. should provide parents that can make students may feel in large schools. The toll-free hotline schools safer. Perhaps the best way to summarize number should with as pamphlet that Public schools this section is to quote Summit regularly be given to clearly spells out many may also want to participant Ron Stephens, director of students and posted revisit policies the National School Safety Center. He prominently around the opportunities for them regarding open said, "A safe school is in place when school. to getinvolved. campuses to students can learn and teachers can There should be ensure they do teach in a welcoming environment, free increased sharing of not hinder having of intimidation and fear.It is a setting juvenile information among schools, safe and orderly schools. where the educational climate fosters a law enforcement, and the judicial and Public schools should ensure that spirit of acceptance and care for every child welfare systems. Troubled their crisis plans are up to date. child; where behavior expectations are children need to be identified early, and Working with law enforcement and clearly communicated, consistently one of the best ways to accomplish this medical emergency personnel, schools enforced and fairly applied. Unlimited is to ensure that a child's inappropriate already focus on fire and other disasters. options and potential exist for safe behavior anywhereat school, on the They may want to broaden their crisis school planning. It requires only the streetsis shared through a seamless plans to include other safety issues. ability to get started." system. Current confidentiality rules hinder the sharing of this vital information, and thus we support a This report was published by the Office of the Governor and change in state statute to facilitate such the Office of the Attorney General, State of Colorado. sharing. Part of this effort of identifying troubled students may involve increased GOVERNOR BILL OWENS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN SALAZAR training for teachers, administrators and 136 STATE CAPITOL 1525 SHERMAN STREET, 5TH FLOOR law-enforcement in early identification DENVER, CO 80203 DENVER, CO 80203 and referral skills for these children. 303-866-2471 303-866-3557

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SUMOT SCD-0000_ SAFETY AND THE PREVENTOOM OF YOUTI-0 VOOLENCE AU1RARIA EVENTS CENTER, DENVER JUNE 19, 1999

Panelists Russell George Tom Tancredo Ruben Archuleta Speaker District Attorney Member Police Chief, retired Colorado House of Denver U.S. House of Representatives Pueblo Representatives Joe Rogers Dave Thomas Dean Askew Kay Hymowitz Lieutenant Governor District Attorney Executive Director Senior fellow State of Colorado Jefferson County Street Beat, Inc. Manhattan Institute Luis Villarreal Ken Salazar Ron Booth Mary Lou Jackson President Attorney General Principal School Board Member Save Our Youth State of Colorado Arapahoe High School Pueblo Public Schools Ari Zavaras Craig Bowman Leon Kelly Todd Saliman Executive Director Teacher Director Member Colorado Department of Public Jefferson County Public Schools Open Door Youth Gang Colorado House of Safety Alternative Program J. Langston Boyd, Jr. Representatives Mistressof Ceremonies Doug Linkhart Senior Pastor Anne Trujillo Member Tom Sanchez Shorter Community AME Anchor Colorado State Senate Chief of Police Church KMGH TV-Channel 7 Denver Mark Brewer Judy Margrath Huge Senior Pastor Superintendent Jeanne Smith Summit Sponsors Colorado Community Church Adams County District 12 District Attorney Auraria Event Center Schools Colorado Biscuits and Berries Frank DeAngelis Bureau of Justice Assistance Principal Mike Moore Ron Stephens Colorado Department of Public Attorney General Director Columbine High School Safety State of Mississippi National School Safety Center Dave DeForest Stalls Colorado Division of Criminal Director Barbara O'Brien Tom Strickland Justice The Spot Executive Director U.S.Attorney Johns Manville Corporation Colorado Children's Campaign Delbert S. Elliot Metro Alumni Jazz Band Director Bill Owens Executive Director Metropolitan State College of Center for the Study & Governor Colorado Departnient of Denver Prevention of Violence State of Colorado Corrections Office of the Attorney General Office of the Governor TCI Cable TV Channel 8 U.S. Department of Justice

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