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ZERO CASUALTIES IN SCHOOLS
2022 is a perfect time to usher in a new vision focused on making students and schools safer. Nobody's safe unless everybody's safe. Now is the time to take action and make a change. Zero Casualties in Schools, and its Violence Interruption Experience, may be your key to transforming your school into a safe space, an oasis, where students can learn and grow without fear. You can raise academic achievement, reduce absenteeism, and make your school a better place for those who attend and work there. Call William McCoy at (614) 785-8497 or e-mail him at training@themccoycompany.com. Click the button to see a brief YouTube presentation about Zero Casualties in Schools.
VIE has been used in schools and since 1994
School Systems
VIE training has been embraced by the Columbus (OH) City Schools (50,000 students). This school district used a VIE Basic Training and VIE Training of Trainers to create a cadre of 40 people to design and deliver VIE training on their own.
These VIE-trained staff and administrators worked with unruly, disruptive, and violent students in the initially. More than 2,000 students and staff have now been exposed to the VIE way of working,
Columbus City Schools has been recognized by print and electronic media, and various professional associations for using VIE to create safer students and schools.
High Schools
VIE workshops have been conducted in middle and high schools in more than 28 states around the country. Baldwin (MI) High School hosted a one-day VIE workshop for its entire student body and faculty before a winter break.
Grand Rapids (MI) Central High School hosted a VIE workshop as part of its Freshman Orientation. The Phoenix (AZ) Diversity Leadership Alliance treated over 500 high school students to the VIE way of working.
The National Conference on Preventing Crime in the Black Community shared VIE with over 2,500 high school students. Hundreds of schools have been exposed to the VIE way of working.
Post-Secondary
VIE training was used by the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Stop Now! to train senior administrators from over 40 Historically Black Colleges and Universities concerned with reducing campus violence against women.
Governors State University (IL), South Mountain (AZ) Community College, and Phoenix College all have offered for-credit, VIE courses. At one school, so many professors enrolled in the course that students had to petition the administration to gain entry.
Norfolk State (VA) used a variety of workshops and training interventions with students and staff. Students love VIE!