A quarterly safe schools newsletter was published beginning February 1997, providing the information which appears throughout this homepage to those without internet access. A copy of the newsletter is contained in the newsletter subpage. The department of elementary and secondary education shall identify and, if necessary adopt, an existing program or programs of educational instruction regarding violence prevention to be administered by public school districts pursuant to subsection 2 of this section, and which shall include instructing students of the negative consequences, both to the individual and to society at large, of membership in or association with criminal street gangs or participation in criminal street gang activity, as those phrases are defined in section 578.421, RSMo, and shall include related training for school district employees directly responsible for the education of students concerning violence prevention and early identification of and intervention in violent behavior. The task force submitted its proposal to DESE by April 1998. The State Board of Education approved the Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework in August 1998.
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The Missouri Center for Safe Schools is working to make conflict resolution instruction a part of teacher and administrator preparation through the courses offered at the UMKC School of Education. The course was successfully piloted in June 1999. Location and Telephone Listing The office for the Missouri Center for Safe Schools is now located in Suite 365 of the UMKC School of Education, on the corner of 52nd and Holmes in Kansas City, Missouri. This subpage was updated November 9, 2000.