DESCRIPTION

Purpose of the Program: To support school and community partnerships in their efforts to develop, coordinate, and implement a comprehensive plan of evidence-based programs, effective policies, and innovative strategies that create safe, drug-free, and respectful environments for learning and promote the behavioral health of children and youth.

The Southern Minnesota Safe Schools Healthy Students Collaborative is a discretionary grant program that provides school district members and their communities with federal funding to implement a coordinated and comprehensive plan of activities, curricula, programs, and services that focus on creating safe school environments, promoting healthy childhood development, and preventing youth violence and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use.

District members partner with local public mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies to develop and submit a community-specific SSHS comprehensive consortium plan that addresses the following five elements:

1. Promoting early childhood social and emotional learning and development
2. Promoting mental, emotional and behavioral health
3. Connecting families, schools and communities
4.  Preventing and reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug use
5. Creating safe and violence-free schools

• January 7, 2011
  • Meeting Notes  
• January 21, 2011
  • Meeting Notes  
• February 4, 2011
  • Meeting Preparation
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Notes
• February 18, 2011
  • Meeting Preparation
  • Meeting Notes
• March 4, 2011
  • Meeting Preparation
  • Meeting Notes
• March 11, 2011
  • Meeting Preparation 
• March 25, 2011
  • Status Update
  • Meeting Notes
• April 15, 2011
  • Meeting Preparation
  • Draft Budget  

• Federal Register Notes
• Required Partnerships – Definitions
• Maintenance of Effort
• Sample Memoranda of Agreement (Updated 02/18/09)
   
• Application
• Sample Grant
• APPENDIX A: History of Collaboration (Updated 02/18/09; Also available as a Microsoft Word file) and Project Logic Model (Updated 02/19/09)
• APPENDIX B: Program-Specific Assurance for Competitive Preference for Novice SS/HS Applicants
• APPENDIX C: NCES District Information Page and Brief Description of LEAs
• APPENDIX D: Budgets
• APPENDIX E: Position Descriptions and Project Timelines
• APPENDIX F: Department of Education and Other Federal Administrative Requirements

• Federal Initiative Web Site

• Research based program sites
  • http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/
  • http://www.modelprograms.samhsa.gov/
  • http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
  • http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
  • http://www.casel.org/programs/action.php
     
• SSHS sustainability model and other grantee resources
  • http:/www.promoteprevent.org/Resources/legacy_wheel/index.html
     
• Grants to reduce alcohol abuse
  • http://www2.ed.gov/programs/dvpalcoholabuse/index.html (Targeted to high school but could possibly include 8th grade.)
    
• Elementary and Secondary Counseling Grant
  • http://www2.ed.gov/programs/elseccounseling/index.html
     
• Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems
  • http://www2.ed.gov/programs/mentalhealth/index.html
     
• Full Service community schools
  • http://www2.ed.gov/programs/communityschools/index.html
     
• High School Graduation Initiative
  • http://www2.ed.gov/programs/dropout/index.html