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Providence committee considers widening Safe School Act to cover student commutes, cites Oakland "VIP" school model
Summary
Members of the Providence City Pathways and Gun Violence Advisory Council discussed proposals to amend the Rhode Island Safe School Act to explicitly cover studentscommuting to and from school, and to secure sustained funding for school-based community violence intervention after officials described a three-tiered model used in Oakland.
The Providence City Pathways and Gun Violence Advisory Council on Thursday discussed proposals to amend the Rhode Island Safe School Act so its protections and interventions explicitly cover students commuting to and from school during the day, and explored funding options for school-based community violence intervention programs.
Councilor Miguel Canta Sanchez and Director Corey Jones convened the meeting, which included Providence Public School District Chief Operating Officer Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., Lisa Pina Warren of the Nonviolence Institute and council member Robert Bailey. Moore described a three-tiered school program his Oakland district used that combined violence interrupters, life coaches and gender-based-violence coaches and partnered with community-based organizations.
"We stood up what we call the school VIP team program," Dr. Dexter Moore Jr., chief operating officer, PPSD, said. "The VIP team was a kind of three-tier model ... focusing on our high schools who had the…
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