Resources

Following is a list of some publishers and social skills curriculum programs for your review.

Bureau for At Risk Youth 
Variety of Drug Prevention, Bullying and Violence Prevention, Social Skills, Character Ed., Conflict Resolution, etc. resources
The Guidance Group 1-800-99-YOUTH or 1-516-496-4863

Character Counts (K-8) 
(character education) 
Josephson Institute 1-800-711-2670

Committee for Children 
Second Step (PreK-K, Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6, & Grades 7-8) 
(conflict resolution, problem solving, feelings, & impulse control)
Talking About Touching 
(personal safety)
Toll Free: 1-800-634-4449

Community Intervention Inc.:Tools To Help Youth
Working It Out At Madison High (13 videos for HS violence prevention)
In Search of Character (6th-12th)
Toll Free: 1-800-328-0417

Discovery Education (formally CHEF)
Get Real About Violence (K-1st, 2-4, & 6-8) 
(violence prevention) 1-800-323-9084

Educational Media Corp. 
Prevent Violence With Groark (5 violence prev. videos- 1st-3rd)
Ready To Use Social Skills & Activities (PK-K, 1-3,4-6,7-12)
The Power of Choice (12 videos for teens)
In Search of Character (10 videos for Jr. High & High School)
You Can Choose (10 videos for K-5)
Big Changes, Big Choices (12 videos for 5th-9th)
Toll Free: 1-800-966-3382

James Stanfield Pub. Corp. 
Be Cool (K-12)6 levels 
Toll Free: 1-800-421-6534

National Center for Violence Prevention
Toll Free: 1-800-962-6662

Sopris West/Cambium Learning
Assist Program (Grades 1-3 & 4-6) 
(friendship skills, anger, etc.)
Stop and Think Social Skills Program (PK-8)
Tough Choices & Right Choices (5-12)
Bully Proofing series (PK-12)
RIDE (Responding to Individual Differences in Education (PK-8)
Phone: 1-303-651-2829/1-800-547-6747

Teaching Tolerance
provides grants up to $2,000 to purchase violence prevention curriculum

Young Peoples Press
Building Character
Toll Free: 1-800-231-9774

The following are resources for parenting classes:

How To Listen So Kids Will Talk & Talk So Kids Will Listen
By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
(most bookstores, including Amazon.com have this series)
Simon & Schuster Pub.

Love & Logic 
(most bookstores, including Amazon.com have this series)
Toll Free: 1-800-338-4065

Active Parenting Publishers 
Toll Free: 1-800-825-0060

Parenting Difficult Adolescents or Guidance Club For Parents of Teens
Bureau for At Risk Youth 
Toll Free: 1-800-99-YOUTH

Systematic Training For Effective Parenting (STEP)
AGS 
Toll Free: 1-800-720-1286

The following are good resources on Domestic Violence:

Center for Study of Prevention of Violence

Center for Prevention of School Violence

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence  (includes section on stalking)

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
"The Problem" and "Getting Help"

National Domestic Violence Hotline  1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

National Network to End Domestic Violence

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence