James N. Madero, Ph.D./The 2007 Educational Security Congress

	National Safe School Initiative: Preventing School Violence K - 12th Grade
	James N. Madero, Ph.D.
	Professor of Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology - Alliant International University

School violence occurs at an alarming rate in our nation's schools. Each year there are over 30 homicides, 140,000 violent crimes against teachers, and 2,500,000 crimes against students. The tragedy at Columbine High School and other incidents like it have made school officials aware of the need for programs to prevent school violence. Unfortunately many of our nation's school districts do not have the financial resources to implement a comprehensive school violence prevention program. Dr. Madero has developed the Alliant International University School Safety Initiative that will make available the Alliant International School Violence Prevention Program to school districts across the United States at no cost. Dr. Madero will describe the 7-Step School Violence Prevention Program and discuss how school districts can obtain the program from Alliant International University at no cost to the school district.

Dr. Madero has over 35 years experience as a Clinical Psychologist. He is a specialist in workplace and school violence prevention, and has conducted over 1300 threat assessments of potentially violent individuals for private and public sector companies, organizations, and school systems. Dr Madero received his PhD from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Dr. Madero has developed "Best Practice" workplace and school violence prevention training programs and materials, and has trained numerous Workplace and School Violence Prevention Teams across the United States. Clients include International Paper, Coca-Cola, Rockwell Automation, GAP Inc., US Department of Energy, Internal Revenue Service, and the Law Firm of Morrison & Foerster. Dr. Madero has written extensively on workplace and school violence prevention, and is co-author of Preventing Workplace Violence, A Decision Makers Guide.


Preventing Violence in Colleges and Universities The tragic events at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on April 16, 2007 have highlighted the need for colleges and universities to develop and implement ways to respond to, and prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future. At the July 18, 2007, public meeting of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, Dr. Madero presented Alliant International University’s School Violence prevention Program to the Review Panel. Dr. Madero will describe the elements of this program which include the establishment and training of the university violence prevention team, the training of administrators, teachers, students, and staff, the system for reporting concerns to an Incident Response Team, the processes for information sharing, the “Best Practice” for managing incidents to a safe conclusion, and the need for a Threat Assessment Specialist as a member of the violence prevention and incident management teams.