Insights from Developing and Implementing a Novel School Community Collaborative Model to Promote School Safety

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• Alternative Title:
  J Sch Health
• Personal Author:
  Hullenaar, Keith L. ; Hicks, Chelsea D. ; Stubblefield, Marcus W. ; Herndon, Lester (Flip) ; Seabrooks, Susan K. ; Vavilala, Monica S. ; Laing, Sharon S.
• Description:
  Background:
  
  School Resource Officer (SRO) programs do not reduce school violence, and increase school discipline. We describe the use of a culturally responsive framework to form a school community collaborative between students, parents, staff, administrators, and law enforcement to reform an SRO program, promote school safety, and reduce punitive measures.
  
  Methods:
  
  Members of a participating school district (PSD), a local county, and a university collaborated. Adapting an identified culturally responsive model, a racially/ethnically diverse school community co-developed and implemented a School Community Collaborative (SCC) to address a school safety priority (SRO program reform). The main outcomes were SCC model development and implementation, policy change, and school community feedback.
  
  Results:
  
  Sixteen community members participated in the 5-week SCC with students, staff, law enforcement, and parents. The SCC revised the district’s SRO memorandum of understanding (MOU) with law enforcement. Participants reported favorable feedback, and 89% reported the inclusion of diverse voices.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Co-development and implementation of an SCC process with schools was feasible. School SCC participated in a community-engaged evaluation and revision of an MOU.
  
  Implications for School Health Policy, Practice, and Equity:
  
  SRO policies and practices affect school safety, and the SCC process supports a systematic evaluation of school SRO programs.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Child Community-Institutional Relations Community Participation Cooperative Behavior Female Humans Law Enforcement Male Program Development Safety Schools Students Violence

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• Keywords:
  Collaborative School Resource Officer
• Source:
  J Sch Health. 94(8):768-776
• Pubmed ID:
  38637288
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11230839
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T32 HD057822/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR002319/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003087/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; King County/ ; R49CE003087/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; UL1TR002319/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health/
• Volume:
  94
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:09a33943c2ecf5d4d6167e0767522162993791ae2ceaf7de0b07f47e923a44b0300a086b7a7634725ed538e9232e9b9264239433bc75ac5fd2fdfa86f378431d
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