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Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Grant OverviewNortheastern was awarded a four year Safe Schools Healthy Students grant in 2014.
- The grant is for four years for a total of $2 million.
- It is a Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention collaboration effort led by three federal agencies.
- The Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools with the U.S. Dept. of Education
- The Center of Mental Health Services within the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
- The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention with the U.S. Department of of Justice.
- It provides integrated and comprehensive resources for prevention programs and pro-social services for youth
- The focus will be on evidence based programming.
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Focuses on Five Elements- Element 1: Promoting Early Childhood and Emotional Learning
and Development
- Increase the percentage of publically funded Early Childhood Education programs (i.e. Head Start, Early Head Start, Pre-K Counts, and Early Interventions) utilizing screeners of social and emotional skills
- Select a Screener to establish systematic
process for measuring social and emotional skills of children in early
childhood education
- Increase the number of meetings between School and publically funded Early Childhood Education providers to address readiness for school
- Increase the
percentage of schools and their publically funded feeder Early Childhood Education
programs using a framework in which locally relevant Evidence Based Programs and curricula are embedded
to develop social
emotional skills in young children
- Element 2: Promoting Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health
- To increase access to mental health services
- To increase awareness of mental health issue
- Decrease the percentage of students self-reporting risk factors associated with depression and suicide
- Establish and implement evidenced based programs to promote mental, emotional and behavior health.
- Establish a screening process to detect risk for depression and suicide
- To increase awareness of mental health issue
- Element 3 Connecting Families, Schools, and Communities
- Engage youth, families and community partner’s to identify current knowledge of systems in their local communities for prosocial engagement
- To increase training and support of Early Childhood staff in an evidence-based pro-social curriculum
- Collaborate with community partners to identify community based strategies for increased acknowledgement opportunities in communities
- Increase family and community participation in Student success
- Collaborate
with community partners to develop plans to increase rewards for prosocial
involvement by students in their local communities
- Element 4: Preventing Behavioral Health Problems, (including Substance Abuse)
- Decrease the percentage of students using drugs and alcohol
- Identify partners and community organizations to identify, implement and build evidence based programs that address prevention
strategies for behavioral health and substance abuse issues
- Element 5: Creating Safe and Violence-Free Schools
- There will be a reduction in the number of students who report having been in a physical fight on school property
- Review current and Identify
possible evidenced based approach to Bullying Prevention.
- Establish Plans to increase the promotion and prevention of behavior problems, and physical violence
- Secure local law enforcement participation for increased promotion and prevention of physical violence
- Review District procedures and equipment for school safety
- Review, clarify and modify as needed the existent process for Office Discipline Referrals and consequences
Our Federal PartnersOur Community Partners- Big Brothers - Big Sisters
- Community Care Behavior Health (CCBH)
- Early Intervention Specialists, Inc.
- Family Child Resource (FCR)
- Head Start of York
- Health Choices
- LIU12
- Millersville University
- Mom's Tell
- Northeastern Regional Police Department
- Otterbein Early Education Center
- Pennsylvania Comprehensive Behavioral Health Services (PCBH)
- Penn State University (York)
- Pressley Ridge
- Service Access and Management, Inc. (SAM)
- St. Paul United Methodist Church
- Sunbeam Station Childcare
- Systems of Care
- True North Wellness
- York County Early Intervention
- York County Human Services
- York County Juvenile Probation
- York County MH/IDD
- Community members, including parents
- Northeastern School District students (high school)