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Kristie Greco, DeFazio’s press secretary, said the nine bills pro vide a comprehensive package con taining a variety of resources that would be offered to communities to solve youth violence problems. “It addresses three things: pre vention, intervention and it helps get guns out of the hands of chil dren,” Greco said. The legislation would increase .funding for programs dealing with learning disabilities, juvenile delin quency prevention and child abuse prevention. It also seeks to improve childcare services and expand the National Guard’s Youth Challenge program for high school dropouts. DeFazio’s legislation would re quire background checks at gun shows, as well as provisions by gun manufacturers for trigger locks on all new firearms that are purchased. In a report released last month, the attorney general’s School/Com munity Safety Coalition said that although Oregon’s public schools are reasonably safe, more must be done to reduce incidences of bully ing, intimidation and harassment between students. Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers said in the report that such harassing behavior can sometimes result in acts of violence in school. The report also includes recom mendations for new school-wide curriculum on anger management, drug and alcohol resistance and conflict resolution. Greco said that DeFazio’s legisla tion addresses the harassment issue by giving families numerous re sources to help students build rela tionship skills both at home and at school. Schools in the 4J District and sur rounding areas are actively in volved in creating such violence prevention programs. John Lehmann, director of Edu cational Support Services, said that the district is a recipient of a three year grant called “Safe Schools, Healthy Students.” The grant allows the schools to have mental health therapists on staff, and for students to be referred to professional treatment if needed, Lehmann said. The grant has also funded Eu gene schools to hire unarmed crime prevention specialists. Lehmann said their presence in the schools gives the students a positive place to go when they have problems or conflicts. Another program is Effective Be havior Support, which runs throughout the district. “It helps create an environment where it is okay to speak up when you see something happening,” Lehmann said. Many of the intervention and prevention strategies are most effec tive when dealing with middle school children, Lehmann said. Dan Stone, student services coor dinator at Thurston High School, said the tragedy there helped raise awareness concerning school vio lence. “One thing we learned from all ol this is that you can’t take anything for granted,” Stone said. “You have to look at every conflict as a poten tial problem.” DeFazio’s nine bills will now move to individual committees for consideration. Business, Community & the Environment There is Beauty in Arithmetic. The Nautilus is a mathematical marvel. It constructs its home in an ever-expanding spiral of outward growth, and incidentally creates a work of art in harmony with its environment. ShoreBank Pacific and its partners are working to achieve the same thing... creating economic relationships that advance community interests and foster business growth, while maintaining ecological integrity. Out of this mission was bom EcoDeposits®: FDIC insured CD's, money market, IRA and savings accounts that earn interest like any other bank account. 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