Funding for the development of the PTI-VA Online Tutorial was provided by a U.S. Department of Education State Data Discretionary Grant, CFDA #84.184R, Award #Q184R040012 to the Virginia Department of Education.

For additional information about the Prevention Through Information (PTI-VA) Project, contact the Project Director:
Arlene Cundiff, Coordinator
Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program
Office of Student Services
Virginia Dept. of Education
P.O. Box 2120
Richmond, VA 23218
(804) 225-2871  Fax (804) 786-9769
Arlene.Cundiff@doe.virginia.gov

Page last updated: December 07, 2006

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       How can I best use this tutorial?

This tutorial is designed as a series of file folders that you click on at the top of your screen.  The file tabs represent chapters and each chapter is divided into subheadings of content topics that you click on to move from topic to topic sequentially through the tutorial or for a fast reference to a specific section of content that you may wish to refer to as a resource.

A question-and-answer format in each section of content provides a general overview of the discipline, crime, and violence (DVC) data collection and reporting process and the uses of DCV data at both state and local levels.

If you are a first-time visitor to this site, you may wish to follow the tutorial sequentially from the table of contents through each of the six chapters of content presented to get the “big picture” of the DCV data collection and reporting process. The tutorial is also designed so that you may use it as a reference resource by clicking on the chapters and chapter subheadings that pertain to the specific content that you may wish to review about the DCV data collection and reporting process.

Links provided throughout the tutorial provide more specific resources on

• legislation related to DCV data

• the submission of  the DCV report

• incident codes

• DCV terminology

• other technical information

A self-assessment is placed at the end of each chapter of the tutorial so that you can check your understanding of the information.