Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI)

NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative

Closing Date

March 24, 2017

The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI) funds rigorous research to produce practical knowledge that can improve the safety of schools and students. The initiative is carried out through partnerships between researchers, educators and other stakeholders, including law enforcement and mental health professionals. Projects funded under the CSSI are designed to produce knowledge that can be applied to schools and school districts across the nation for...

Find School Safety Programs on CrimeSolutions

October 2016

Dr. Stephanie Gerstenblith, Development Services Groups, discusses how to use CrimeSolutions to find evidence-based programs and practices that can improve school safety. Many of these programs were added to CrimeSolutions under NIJ’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative.

Dr. Gerstenblith also addresses the lack of strong evaluations of school safety programs that schools are implementing and invested in; and the opportunity that presents for the research community.

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Making U.S. Schools Safer Through Scientific Research

Date Published

March 2015

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description, Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Participatory Peace Circles in New York City Schools

2016-CK-BX-0023

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,181,239

Cultivating Healing by Implementing Restorative Practices for Youth (CHIRPY)

2016-CK-BX-0008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,196,537

School Climate, Student Discipline, and the Implementation of School Resources Officers

2016-CK-BX-0017

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$370,307

Assessing the Role of Immigration in the Linkage between School Safety, Education, and Juvenile Justice Contact

2016-CK-BX-0015

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$776,949

Understanding the Causes of School Violence Using Open Source Data

2016-CK-BX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$699,629

A Comprehensive Longitudinal Study of School Violence and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Root Causes and Consequences of and Implications for Restorative Justice Approaches

2016-CK-BX-0014

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$499,863

Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe in San Francisco Unified School District.

2016-CK-BX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,641,134

Rainier Beach Campus Safety Continuum: A Comprehensive Place Based Approach

2016-CK-BX-0005

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$3,834,667

Identifying and Embedding Brokers into a Multi-tiered System of Services to Reduce the Bystander Effect Leading to a Reduction in School Violence

2016-CK-BX-0009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,866,107

Link for Schools: A system to prevent violence and its adverse impacts

2016-CK-BX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$3,675,128

Shelby County School District Comprehensive School Safety Initiative

2016-CK-BX-0011

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,833,916

An Investigation of School Resource and Safety Programs Policy and Practice in Virginia

2016-CK-BX-0021

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$689,416

Evaluation of a Principal Training Program to Promote Safe and Civil Schools

2016-CK-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,135,418

Examining the School and Community Contexts that Contribute to the Root Causes and Prevention of School Violence in Rural, Urban, and Large County School Districts in California. - Category 4

2016-CK-BX-K001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,964,124

Mapping Decisions Points from School Based Incidents to Exclusionary Discipline, Arrest and Referral to the Juvenile Justice System

2016-CK-BX-0018

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$240,000

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Comprehensive, Research-Based Framework for Implementing School-Based Law Enforcement Programs

2016-CK-BX-0003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,315,804

The Consequences of School Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2016-CK-BX-0012

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$446,679

Research on the Effects of an Anonymous Tip Line and Multidisciplinary Response Teams in Schools across the State of Nevada

2016-CK-BX-0007

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,835,367

Understanding the Adoption, Function, and Consequences of School Resource Officer Use in Understudied Settings

2016-CK-BX-0020

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$623,047

Assessing a school, justice, and behavioral health collaborative approach to improving school safety

2016-CK-BX-0010

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$2,985,543

The Influence of Subjective and Objective Rural School Security on Law Enforcement Engagement Models: A Mixed Methods Study

2016-CK-BX-0019

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$645,952

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Safe School Ambassadors in High Risk Schools in Puerto Rico

2016-CK-BX-0001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$4,744,947