Engaging School Resource Officer in Behavioral Health - Addressing behavior issues in our schools: A systems approach.

Presenters

Bob N. Stevens PhD, APBSFollow

First Presenter's Institution

University of South Carolina

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Bob Stevens received his BS from The Citadel, MS from the University of Oklahoma, and PhD from Florida State University. He has over 40 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, coach, school principal, and college professor. He was Vice President at Charleston Southern University, Director of Intervention Services in Charleston County School District, and Vice President of Research and Marketing at Benefitfocus.com. He is currently the Co-Chair for the 9th Annual Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference, member of the Medical University Translational Research Community Advisory Board (SCTR), and PI for Stakeholder Engagement for the STAR Clinical Research Network at Vanderbilt University. Research interests include: data systems; behavioral health; tele-health, and school violence/bullying. Recently Bob has been a team member on several grants: University of SC (PCORI); MUSC (Natural Language Processing, Electronic Consent); South Carolina Department of Education (School Climate and AWARE); Columbia University (student self-management of asthma); Winthrop University (School Leadership); and University of NC (informed consent.) Dr. Stevens can be reached at robertnstevens@comcast.net.

Document Type

Event

Primary Strand

School Safety

Relevance to Primary Strand

Helping school-based SRO integrate into the behavioral health efforts (ie PBIS) within a school will not only enhance PBIS efforts, but also improve school safety

Brief Program Description

Concerns about school safety have SRO's becoming more visible and active in our schools. SRO's need to go beyond their traditional roles. Enhanced SRO's can be effect change agents and partners for improved behavior with PBIS systems. Learn about the steps schools should take to enhance the role of SROs.

Summary

For SROs and MTSS team members who work with SRO's, this session will discuss five things you can do immediately to improve your school to become an “C-SRO”

(InterConnected SRO) This fits well within the concept of ISF and the Multi-Tierd Framework of Support.

Evidence

School resource officers and schoolwide PBIS: Considerations for training

The Other Side of School Violence: Educator Policies and Practices That May Contribute to Student Misbehavior, 36 J. SCH. PSYCHOL. 7, 12 (1998); BenBrown, Understanding and Assessing School Police Officers: A Conceptual and Methodological

Comment, 34 J. CRIM. JUST. 591 (2006); JUSTICE POLICY INSTITUTE, EDUCATION UNDER ARREST: THE CASE AGAINST POLICE IN SCHOOLS (Nov. 2011).

Learning Objective 1

Participants will learn the 5 actions SROs can take within their PBIS initiative to enhance their role

Learning Objective 2

Attendees will learn how SROs can help address behavioral health risk and protective factors in their schools.

Recommended Citation

Stevens, Bob N. PhD, "Engaging School Resource Officer in Behavioral Health - Addressing behavior issues in our schools: A systems approach." (2022). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 16.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2022/2022/16