BASSETERRE St. Kitts, April 14 2011 (SKNIS) - Teams of educators and other key sector officials are meeting over the next two days to discuss the way forward in implementing the plan for curbing violence in schools in St. Kitts and Nevis.

 
Project Coordinator, Dr Tricia Esdaille told SKNIS that the two day sessions are critical in creating a stable foundation of understanding for those who will be intricately involved in assisting students deal with the issues that often trigger violence.

 
Among topics for discussion are The Framework for Action and Implementing the Model; School Based Interventions; Behaviour Management Systems; as well as Designing a Behaviour Policy.

 
Dr. Esdaille explained further that each school’s “violence elimination” project would be based on its specific challenges and that no two schools would undergo identical intervention strategies. She emphasized that this was important to the effectiveness of the project as well as to maximise the use of required resources.
 

In a brief opening ceremony at Manhattan Gardens on Wednesday, Chief Education Officer Dr Patrick Welcome, and Permanent Secretary Osmond Petty reinforced the need for urgent action to be taken while these students are still in school so as to safeguard the learning environment as well as to increase the number of stable and productive citizens who go out into the working world and into the adult population.

 
The workshop is being facilitated by Project Coordinator, Dr. Tricia Esdaille who is a psychologist by profession.

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