Quick Guide to Safe Schools and Youth Violence Prevention Information from State Agencies

by the Colorado State Publications Library

Denver, Colorado

For further information contact the library staff at spl@cde.state.co.us

Updated April 2024

Various agencies of Colorado state government provide resources in the areas of safe schools, bullying, and youth violence prevention. This is a quick information guide to selected print and electronic publications as well as web sites maintained by state agencies.

For records of print publications to borrow and/or links to electronic publications, search our library catalog with keywords: school violence, youth violence, violence prevention, schools safety measures, or bullying.

State government web pages:

Bullying Prevention and Education - Best practices and resources from the Colorado Department of Education
Colorado Office of School Safety Resources - A portal from the Colorado Department of Public Safety designed to assist educators, emergency responders, community organizations, school mental health professionals, parents and students in creating safe school environments for Colorado students.
Colorado School Violence Prevention and Student Discipline Manual (PDF) - from the Attorney General's Office
Governor's Columbine Review Commission Report (PDF) - an independent review of the Columbine High School tragedy, published March 2001
Report on the Arapahoe High School shooting : lessons learned on information sharing, threat assessment, and systems integrity
safe2tell, Colorado Student Crime Stoppers
Ten years after Columbine: (PDF) Highlights of School Safety Efforts in Colorado

The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence of the University of Colorado at Boulder has several web sites related to research on these issues:

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development - Model Programs
Publications - school safety research and prevention publications, training and planning tools. Many of these are available to borrow from the State Publications Library

For additional information, e-mail spl@cde.state.co.us