MELBOURNE, Fla. — The School Board of Brevard County is focusing on school safety as the year continues, hoping to reduce the rate of weapon-related incidents and violent offenses that happen not just on school grounds, but at district events, on buses and at bus stops.

The plan involves hiring additional personnel to supervise students in common areas, finding conflict resolutions, reducing access to campuses and working with law enforcement to identify and eliminate gang-related activities.

The district also wants to train teachers and administrators to consistently enforce school discipline rules and policies.

School system procedures would be put in place within 20 days of a school being deemed persistently dangerous.

"It's an all-encompassing policy that is related to weapons, to discipline issues that we have, related to student behavior," said Brevard School Board Chair Matt Susin. "If you just continue to let a kid do the same thing over and over again, it's going to escalate if you don't help that student or you don't rectify the situation."

Anwar Hunte, the service director for a branch of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida in Melbourne, wants his place to mirror the ideas.

"When the kids come in, they can know this is a place they can take pride in," Hunte said. "We tell them all the time, 'This is your club, we are just here to make sure there is order, discipline and a whole bunch of fun.'"

He wants kids to be able to talk about what might be affecting them physically or mentally at school.

"A private conversation may be 30 seconds long, but them being able to vent, get it off their chest, off their shoulders — now they are able to go back into the population and do what they need to do," he said.