8:00 am: Registration

8.45 am: Chairperson’s Opening Remark
Jerzy Nowak
Director/Chairman of the Conference
Center of Peace and Violence Prevention
Virginia

9:00 am: Session 1
School Safety: A National Perspective
Kim Lowry
Director of Communications
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington DC

9:30 am: Session 2
Overview of Campus Violence
Joselle Shea
Director, Children & Youth Initiative
National Crime Prevention Council
• Does widespread violence in media & television   create an imitator on our youth?
• What have we learned from past campus   shootings   and violent incidents
• How safe are our campuses?
• Are campus shootings planned?

10:00 am: Networking break at the Sponsor Exhibit Area

10:15 am: Session 3
Patrick Boylan
Assessing Threats: A Key to Avoiding Institutional Violence
•Identify the security risks unique to your school
•Develop quick and effective risk analysis to
  Know when to enlist expert threat assessment   teams
•Maximize your own staff & students in the risk   assessment process

10:30 am: Session  4
Communication Management in a Crisis
Stephen Kempf
Former Regional Administrator (2008)                                          
Region II , FEMA, New York
• Calling in the Emergency Management Team
• Assessing Effective Communication Strategies
• Integrating Campus Communications

11:00 am: Youth Panel Discussion
Getting the Youth’s perspective on School Safety
David Drassner, PhD.
Psychologist
Rockland Resiliency Institute
New York  

Kristina Heeger-Anderson              
Student/Director                       
Virginia Tech/Koshka Foundation,VA

Patricia Isidoro
Student
Saddle Brook High School, NJ

John Welch
Student
International Studies
Virginia Tech

Amanda Schroeter
Student, Minot State University
North Dakota

12:00 pm: Networking Lunch
1:00pm: Session 5
Gang Awareness and Threats
Peter Mercado
Director of Public Safety
Horry County Schools Districts
South Carolina

2:00pm: Session 6
Life Space Crisis Intervention Program
Frank Fecser, Ph.D.
CEO
Program Engineer of LSCI
Positive Education Program (PEP)
Ohio

3:00 pm: Networking break at the Sponsor Exhibit Area

3:15pm: Session 7
Early Detection of (Massive) Drug Abuse among Teens
Ronald Brogan
Bureau Chief
D.A.R.E. America,
New York City

3.50 p.m : Session 8
Faculty with Weapons in the Workplace and Hidden Guns
William  Whisenhunt
Professor, Nevada State College
Nevada

4:25pm: Session 9
Addressing Psychosocial-Educational Concerns in Schools
Allen Brown
Director,   Center for Workplace and School Violence
Massachusetts