Table 2. Beliefs on violence in the community before and after program.

	Pre-test	Post-test	p for sig. improvement	p for sig. pre-test bias
What are your beliefs on the following:
I have the tools to handle violence at my school	2.99	3.42
A school violence prevention would be helpful at my school	3.55	3.84
I can discuss stopping school violence&gun violence comfortably with my friends/teachers	3.06	3.66

Values listed are mean responses rounded to nearest tenth based on Likert scale: 1= disagree completely; 2 = disagree a little; 3 = disagree a little; 4 = agree a little; 5 = agree a lot; 6 = agree completely.

p-value for sig. <.05.