Tip 1 Breaking the Code of Silence
Provided by the Safe Schools Unit, San Diego County Office of Education

Students:

• Understand that you're not ratting, you could be saving a friend
• Talk with parents about threats or rumors
• Find an adult at school you trust and can confide in
• Help your school establish a confidential student/parent hot line

Parents:

• Open lines of communication with your child - be a good listener
• Acknowledge their feelings, concerns
• Emphasize and encourage values of leadership and courage - praise their positive acts
• Help child identify at least one adult they trust and can turn to
• Become a volunteer as part of your child's school safety programs

Schools:

• Implement a 24-hour / 7-day-a-week telephone /e-mail hot line where students and parents can report threats
• Establish protocol for responding to reports of violence
• Develop programs that emphasize courage, caring and responsibility, make it part of the curriculum

• Tip 1: Breaking the Code of Silence
• Tip 2: Rumors
• Tip 3: No Name Calling
• Tip 4: Stop the Bullying
• Tip 5: Stopping the Fight
• Tip 6: Controlling Anger
• Tips 7 & 8: Peer Pressure/Refusal Skills
• Tips 9: Monitor Media Violence
• Tip 10 & 11: Break the Cycle of Violence & Teach Tolerance
• Tip 12: Keep Guns Out of Kids' Hands
• Tip 13 & 14: Preventing Depression & Preventing Suicide
• Tip 15: Stay Alcohol and Drug Free
• Tip 16 & 17 Cancel Cliques & Isolation

• To Help Your Child Deal with a Vioent School Site Crisis
• Community Involvement / Support

• Controlling Anger
• Surviving: Coping With Adolescent
  Depression and Suicide
• Raising Children to Resist Violence
  
• Warning Signs: A Guide
• San Diego County Safe Schools Unit
• FORCE 8