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Improving
efforts to stop youth violence
The
report calls for:
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Statewide training should be provided for school administrators
on how to collect and report data reflecting school violence and
how to use such information to improve school safety.
- The
state Department of Education should release annual school safety
statistics in a more timely fashion. (Such information is currently
released nearly two years after the incidents occur.)
- Virginia
should implement a statewide method for tracking the extent of
alcohol and drug use among youth, a practice many other states
employ.
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Additional legislation is needed to broaden information-sharing
among schools, courts and law enforcement agencies.
- Local
providers of youth services should meet regularly to exchange
information and to learn the extent of youth violence in their
communities.
- The
urgent need for providing youth in detention centers such services
as job training, substance abuse counseling, mentoring and parent
education should be addressed immediately.
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