Safe Passage

Safe passage is a collaborative, multi-agency effort to create safe and orderly environments around Mark Twain middle school & Marina Del Rey middle school to directly address conditions in the students’ lives that commonly put them in distressing and often unsafe situations while traveling to and from school. Volunteers may be required to help ensure that the Safe Passage Program properly services (extended coverage) local school sites and those individuals who live within the school community.

The Safe Passages Program is designed to establish safe routes around the school community that may include but not limited to public places where youth hang out; libraries, city recreation centers, places of worship, public transportation and businesses. Private residences are not part of Safe Passage.

The Safe Passage Program (SPP) staff may assist in coordination of violence prevention assemblies or provide speakers in homerooms to address the various form of violence in the students lives such as gangs, bullying, guns, racial tensions, drugs and alcoholism related violence, and domestic violence.

SPP may address the safety concerns of parents by encouraging greater enforcement of traffic laws, educating the public, and exploring ways to create safe streets by collaborating with parents, teachers, school administration, law enforcement, businesses, local governmental agencies, community-based and faith-based organizations. Likewise, the program also addresses the safety concerns of parents by encouraging greater enforcement of safety laws, educating the public, and exploring ways to create safer streets for youth to travel to and from school.

The Safe Passage Program goals and objectives include: (1) Decreasing the chances that of acts of violence against youth traveling to and from school to obtain an education; (2) Reducing the likelihood of youth involvement in gang activities’ (3) Establishing linkages to after-school programs that promote educational activities, organized sports, and cultural awareness between youth and community resources for positive youth programming and community (4) Referrals will be provided to youth involved in any acts of violence to supportive services from appropriate agencies/law enforcement on an individual basis.