Description of safety strategy:
At the White House Conference on School Safety, Oct. 15, 1998, there were four approaches highlighted, and only one involved parents: the FAST Families and Schools Together process of parent outreach to stressed and isolated families, especially low-income, and the structured, activity based multi-family groups achieve 80% graduation from the groups if a parent attends just once. This dramatically increases parent involvement in the schools and treats parents as partners and as part of the solution to school safety. There are now over 600 schools in 38 states and 6 countries with FAST programs.