Rape Crisis Training Institute: Go to the Principal's Office! Challenges in Marketing Rape Prevention to Schools and How to Overcome Them

Description

Participants develop an action plan.

This workshop was created to aid staff of rape crisis programs who are involved in outreach and/or education in the public school system.  The training consisted of lecture, discussion, and participant exercises. The Alliance brought a team of presenters from School Safety Professionals, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in school safety, to lead the workshop.  The presenters all had extensive experience working with the New York City Public School system. Their main objective was to present practical information on how to gain access to, and market rape prevention to school systems.

The workshop helped participants to identify key players in New York City schools, major challenges in marketing to schools and strategies to overcome them. The difficulties in gaining access to schools and strategies to gain access were discussed, as were the dynamics of sex crimes in schools and the typical school response to a sex crime that is committed in a school or against a student outside of school. The presenters worked with participants address challeges in determining objectives and strategy; developing a strategic approach including basic/standard methods, targeted/specific methods; networking and network development; and developing creative approaches to marketing. To download the curriculum in PDF format,[1] click here.

RICHARD L. GLOVER, ABD/CSWM/MSSW
CEO of School Safety Professions, LLC

Richard Glover talks to attendees.

Richard Glover is the CEO School Safety Professionals, LLC, a consulting firm incorporated to help local school systems establish and maintain a safe and secure teaching and learning environment. Mr. Glover operated the first and only training academy for school safety officers and pioneered curriculum on security techniques and safety approaches designed specifically for use in public schools. He has designed and delivered personal safety training for elementary and middle school children and conducted training for New York City public school teachers on classroom behavioral management and crisis management techniques. Richard Glover is currently a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in Social Work Administration where he also teaches classes in program evaluation, financial management, and community organizing. He received his Masters in Social Work Administration from Columbia University and his Bachelors of Business Administration from Boston University. Mr. Glover is an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, providing training and instruction in campus and industrial security as well as diversity training for New York City Police Department officers. He recently served as a moderator and presenter for the Enterprise Foundation’s National Conference on Making Communities Safe held in Washington, D.C., and was the keynote speaker in Brooklyn, NY, for the Brooklyn Diocese Conference on Conflict Resolution in the Schools. Mr. Glover has written two books on school safety and has co-authored several articles on the subject.

HENRY R. MURPHY, C.P.P.
COO of School Safety Professions, LLC
Henry R. Murphy, CPP has twenty years of work experience with the New York City Police Department where he served as a patrolman, sergeant, and lieutenant. From 1976 to 1992 Mr. Murphy served as the Chief of Operations and Deputy Director for the Division of School Safety for the New York City Public School District – the country’s largest school district. His responsibilities included the provision of security services to the over one million children, 200,000 personnel, and 1100 buildings by managing the deployment of the largest school safety and security force in the world. Mr. Murphy was involved in the conceptualization and implementation of the first accredited School Safety Training Academy in the country; he served as the primary legal advisor in adapting criminal penal and procedural law enforcement into a public school context. Mr. Murphy has written two books and several articles on school security.

In addition to his duties as the Chief Operating Officer of School Safety Professionals, LLC, Mr. Murphy conducts risk assessments and loss prevention surveys to identify vulnerabilities and provide information that will reduce the probability of injuries, property loss, vandalism, and civil liability. He provides expert testimony/consultation relating to schools and the security of other facilities in civil tort cases.

[1]: http://admin.nycagainstrape.org/media/rcti/schoolsafetycurriculum.pdf

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