Missouri Center for Safe Schools at UMKC

The Missouri Center for Safe Schools (MCSS) was established July 1995 within the School of Education of the University of Missouri-Kansas City under a grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). DESE awarded the grant under the provisions of the Outstanding Schools Act. The grant under which the MCSS operates is continued a year at a time. The Center provides workshops for adults and directly instructs students in conflict resolution, peer mediation, crisis management, and other aspects of school safety.

The first priority of MCSS has been the reduction of interpersonal violence within schools. The Center hosted a conference on that topic at the Elms Hotel, Excelsior Springs, October 5-6, 1995, during which the groundwork was set with legislators and educators for the alternative education (management school) component of the Missouri Safe Schools Act, which was being drafted at the time.

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Last Modified June 5 2001