Handle With Care

The “Handle With Care” Model is a partnership between school districts and the departments of law enforcement that serve them. If a law enforcement officer encounters a child during a call, that child’s information is forwarded to the school before the school bell rings the next day.

The school implements individual, class, and whole school trauma-sensitive curricula so that children who experienced trauma are “Handled With Care.”

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The Handle With Care Steering Committee, a collaboration of Cornell Cooperative Extension with BOCES, the Department of Mental Health and Children’s Services, the Orange County Association of Police Chiefs, the Orange County Children’s Cross Systems Team, and the Special Victims Unit, is pleased to support you in implementing this model. You can download the free resources and training materials here https://cornell.box.com/s/evx4pu20y3xy7b5kwaesu02phmrkuagd.

For technical assistance or steps to implement the program, please get in touch with Julika von Stackelberg at jv426@cornell.edu or (845) 344-1234 ext. 274.

For more information and to apply for the next cohort, please get in touch with Julika von Stackelberg at jv426@cornell.edu or (845) 344-1234 ext. 274

Last updated January 21, 2025