Training Modules: Violence and Disruption in School and the Community

Produced by Matthew J. Mayer and Peter E. Leone

Department of Special Education

University of Maryland, College Park

Training modules presented here are samples from a CD-ROM available (in January 2002) from the Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention. The CD contains three sets of training modules. Collection 1 contains nine separate modules available in 1, 2, or 4-hour sessions; Collection 2 contains15 shorter thematic modules; and Collection 3 contains three presentations on evaluation.

Samples of training modules from the CD-ROM are available below. The selected samples come from Collection 2 on the CD-ROM. They are ready-to-use Microsoft PowerPoint presentations designed for professional staff in-service and workshop training sessions. The contents are appropriate for a number of settings including education, mental health, social science, juvenile justice, and community-based youth organizations. The primary focus of training is school violence; however, related community-based issues are discussed as they relate to school violence.

Select a training module:

General Understanding About School Violence and Disruption

Research Approaches to School Violence

Family Level Issues and Prevention/Intervention

IMPORTANT NOTE: These training modules have been made available for public use provided that: 1) the contents are used for non-commercial educational purposes, 2) that credit for the CD-ROM and assiciated training modules is acknowledged where appropriate, and 3) that all source materials cited in the training modules display appropriate credit and citation to the original authors/sources.