Violence Prevention Program

Tremont's Mental Health Team is utilizing a research-based violence prevention program entitled, "Second Step" in the classrooms. Personal safety skills are often the first prevention steps children learn to help them stay safe. The focus is to teach social-emotional skills. This program helps increase children's safety and well-being by teaching them skills that reduce their aggression and increase their social competence.

Second Step addresses the following components:

Empathy Training

Children learn to:

  • Identify their own and others' feelings.
  • Take others' perspectives.
  • Respond empathically to others.

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Impulse Control and Problem Solving

Children learn to:

  • Apply a problem-solving strategy to social situations.

  • Practice behavioral social skills.

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Anger Management

Children learn to:

  • Recognize angry feelings.

  • Use behavioral techniques to calm and think.

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Research

 

Helpful hints we should all abide by:

  • Model prosocial skills when you are interacting with others and show that you care how others feel.

  • Use a respectful and sincere voice.

  • Think aloud when problem solving or using anger management steps.

  • Apologize when you make a mistake.

  • Convey the message that you will not give up on your child in his or her efforts to meet high expectations.

  • Consistently emphasize logical and natural consequences of specific behaviors.

  • Listen to your child without judgment.

  • Convey that mistakes can be a positive contribution to learning.

  • De-emphasize competition by emphasizing collaboration

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