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Divorce and Mediation Bibliography

Ahrons, Constance, PhD.  The Good Divorce.  New York. Harper Collins Pub. 1994.

Folberg, Jay.  Joint Custody & Shared Parenting, Sec. Ed. New York. The Guilford Press.

Gardner, Richard, MD.  The Boys & Girls Book About Divorce.  New York.
Bantam Books, 1970.

Garrity, Carla B. & Buris, Mitchell A.  Caught in the Middle.  NY: Lexington Books

Ricci, Isolina, PhD.  Mom’s House, Dad’s House, Making Shared Custody Work.
New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Pub. Co. 1980.

Internet Resources for Bullying & School Violence

http://www.teachervision.com  
Teaching resources for all levels of K-12, including conflict resolution and conventional academic instruction

http://www.esrnational.org/
Educators for Social Responsibility describes its mission as “...to make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic and just world.”  Offers downloadable materials, as well as books, videos, curricula, etc.

http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention website, with statistics, programs, grants, and other resources.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncicp/dvp/yvpt/yvpt.htm
The Division of Violence Prevention of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.  Offers data on violence by children and adolescents, including school violence and dating violence, along with publications and other resources (see bibliography).

http://www.edc.org/HHD/csn
“Children’s Safety Network” the Education Development Center of Newton.

http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence in North Carolina.  Offers ideas, programs, resources, and data on school violence.

http://www.cfchildren.org
The Committee for Children provides social skills curricula for the prevention of bullying, violence, and child abuse.  It also provides family education, training, and technical assistance to educators.

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
U.S. Department of Education’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools website.    The program is designed to reduce violence in and around schools, and strengthen programs that prevent the use of illegal alcohol, tobacco and drugs, involve parents, and are coordinated with related federal, state, and community efforts and resources.

http://www.oslc.org
The Oregon Social Learning Center is an independent research center which focuses on experiences which contribute to healthy social adjustment in key settings, including the home, school, and the community during childhood.  The Center also works to identify factors which lead to problems at different stages of life, such as temper tantrums and misbehavior in childhood, delinquency and substance use in adolescence, and failed relationships in adulthood.

http://www.wellesley.edu/opencircle
The Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program is a comprehensive social and emotional learning program for elementary school children (K-5) , their teachers, principals, and parents.

http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage
Resources for parents, teachers, and children.  A portal to the Department of Justice.

http://www.ccrcglobal.org
An organization devoted to teaching children and adults the skills needed to find nonviolent and creative solutions to conflict.

http://www.safechild.org/bullies.htm
A program on prevention of bullying and interpersonal violence for K-5 students along with their parents and teachers.

http://www.Colorado.EDU/cspv
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Said to identify the elements of outstanding blueprint violence prevention programs

http://www.ed.gov or http://www.secretservice.gov
United States Department of Education and/or United States Secret Service have information about threat assessment and copies of Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates and The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States

http://www.bullyonline.org
U.K. National Workplace Bullying Advice Line.


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