Maintain a close relationship between guidance counselors, school psychologists and ESL students. Guidance counselors and school psychologists are trained and positioned to recognize when ESL students are at risk of violence or to take complaints from those students.
Organize cultural sensitivity and diversity events at the school. Such events should involve both students and teachers and teach the value of tolerance of other cultures. These programs encourage acceptance of foreign students (including non-English students) in school and may, in turn, deter crime against them.
Provide translators in the school so that ESL students -- and their non-English-speaking parents -- have an outlet for communication and can effectively communicate whether they have been a victim of crime or consider themselves under threat of criminal activity.
Administer discipline to students who commit infractions against ESL students, and involve the local police if such infractions rise to the level of criminal activity. For example, ESL students may be victims of verbal bullying, but if the bullying rises to the level of harassment or develops into physical violence, it becomes a criminal matter necessitating the involvement of police.
Maintain a school security staff that is trained to prevent crime and intervene in its occurrence. Provide specialized training for school security guards about the unique risks to the ESL student population and the importance of protecting this vulnerable group.