The Safe and Responsive Schools Framework is an approach to improving the behavior of students at school, and to preventing school violence. It is a structure that permits schools to engage in actions or strategies addressing three levels.

These are:

• Creating a Positive Climate
• Early Identification and Intervention
• Effective Responses

School teams can use these three levels to assess current programs and activities in a school, to identify promising practices and programs that might be considered to supplement existing programs, and to prioritize actions needed.

* The Safe and Responsive Schools Websites are interlinked websites housed at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Visitors may be jumped between them when viewing materials.

* The contents of this website were developed in part under grant #H325N990009 from the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.