Pittsburgh Protocol to Stop School Shootings. First Pilot Program in the USA. What is R.A.D.A.R.?

What is R.A.D.A.R ?

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Responsive

Alerts

Diagnostic

Assessments for

Reducing Gun Violence

The Pittsburgh Pilot Program has a goal to stop shootings in school.

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Here is how it works?

The Pittsburgh Pilot Program has a goal to stop shootings in schools.

Several colleges around Pittsburgh teach classes in education, including Pitt, Duquesne, Point Park, and Robert Morris, as well as community colleges that grant associate degrees.

For example, Community College Allegheny County has a superb educational curriculum and programming, including:

- Child Development

- Education Paraprofessional

- Middle Level & Secondary

- Child Care Diploma

- Early Childhood, Child Development

- Children with Special Needs

- And other incredible certificates and associate degrees Westmoreland College has exceptional curriculum such as:

• Early Childhood Education, AA

• Early Childhood Education, Diploma

• Early Childhood Education, Certificate

• Early Childhood Education - Child Development Associate, Certificate

• Psychology

• Criminal Justice

• Social Work And any of these aforementioned programs would be a great fit for R.A.D.A.R giving Westmoreland College students "in the trenches" training. These are the type of community-based programs that supplement academics and give real life meaning to academic theories, lectures, coursework and textbooks.

These teaching programs are successful because they allow future teachers to gain field experience in various student teaching programs.

R.A.D.A.R. pilot is meeting with area schools, colleges, and Universities to explore this logical fit.

1. Certain degree-granting institutions extending credit hours in exchange for... 2. Valuable clinical and fieldwork within the R.A.D.A.R. safety corridor program.

3. This reality-based educational model promotes students working "hands-on" conducting mental health screenings to identify problematic or predictive problem student behaviors that put schools at risk. i.e. identifying an aggressive student before a deadly shooting.

4. The public school has extra staffing, and the students have a new set of role models. Yes, this could be staffed with volunteer parents, but middle schoolers and teens are much more responsive to younger adults. And young adults are the main demographic within the student body at colleges like Community College of Allegheny County.

This pilot program staffs area middle and high schools with a "check in" corridor similar to how you see ordinary citizens board airplanes. Before boarding a plane, you don't see the entire public rush onto a plane right? Instead the public goes through an extensive corridor of screening. Similarly, R.A.D.A.R. systematic protocol would have students go through efficient checkpoints before beginning their school day.

The students will be required to participate in interactive interviews conducted by educational interns studying in Pittsburgh to be future teachers.

The questions assess the wellness of students based on the following:

- self-image

- depression

- degree of isolation

- social functioning

- identifying problems and positive peer relations

- assessing levels of pro-social behavior

- assessing levels of anti-social or problematic risk for aggressive behaviors

- plus other behavioral criteria

This is a wellness or mental health screening program.

There will be a database following civil liberties and video records of all students going through this safety corridor protocol that begins each school day at all entrances.

Really no different than when adults obtain driver's licenses (there are a vast set of rules, records, tests right?)

Since there are correlations between at-risk behaviors and school shootings, this program will reduce or eliminate school violence.

Moreover, we are accomplishing two main objectives by linking educational students with "hands-on" experience and fieldwork:

1.) Keeping our schools safe.

2.) Better preparing future teachers with valuable field experience.

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A reader replied with some added insight.

As wonderful as this is, the bigger picture needs to be addressed and that is mental health and until schools put more of their funding into mental health these things won't change no matter how prepared you are. Kids need meditation outlets, and things like yoga or movement. Kids need more counselors who aren't bogged down with too many responsibilities and children to look after. kids need to learn compassion and receive nurturing and have safe places to feel seen and held. some kids have a horrible home life or its seen as too taboo to do these things at home so for the safety of the kids and the adults they will become mental health needs to play a bigger role.

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