C.A.R.E. Team

Collaborate. Assess. Respond. Evaluate.

Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) was awarded a three-year STOP School Violence Grant in the 2021-22 school year with The Violence Prevention Project (VPP) to identify trends and root causes of increased prevalence and seriousness of violent incidents in SPPS. The partners will develop a customized school safety tool based off of the R-Model, a violence prevention protocol that reimagines traditional behavioral “threat assessment” as multidisciplinary crisis response teams to respond to and support students in crisis. The partners will also create a reporting system for staff and students to report (anonymously if preferred) concerning behavior that may indicate a student is in crisis.