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Colorado Statutes: TITLE 22 EDUCATION : SCHOOL DISTRICTS : ARTICLE 32 SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS - POWERS AND DUTIES : 22-32-109.1. Board of education - specific powers and duties - safe schools.

• Requires each school district to ....implement a safe school plan.
• Requires each school district to include a specific policy in the school district conduct and discipline code concerning bullying prevention and education.
  • Defines bullying to mean any written or verbal expression, or physical act or gesture, or a pattern thereof, that is intended to cause distress upon one or more students in the school, on school grounds, in school vehicles, at a designated school bus stop, or at school activities or sanctioned events
• Requires each school to submit, in the annual report to the state board of education, information concerning the school's policy on bullying prevention and education, including information related to the development and implementation of any bullying prevention programs.

• Requires each school district to ....implement a safe school plan.
• Requires policies and procedures for dealing with students who cause a disruption in the classroom, on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events, .... A behavior plan may be developed after the first such removal from class, and shall be developed after the second such removal from class...
• Requires provisions for the initiation of expulsion proceedings for students who qualify as habitually disruptive ....
• Requires policies and procedures for the use of acts of reasonable and appropriate physical intervention or force in dealing with disruptive students... procedures that are not in conflict with existing child abuse statutes in section 18-6-401 (1), C.R.S., and section 19-1-103 (1), C.R.S.;

Statute text (Excerpts)
(NOTE: Portions of the statute that do not pertain to student behavior have been omitted. Portions that relate to students' social-cognitive skills are highlighted in red. To see the full statute, click on Colorado Revised Statutes)

(1) Mission statement. Each school district board of education shall adopt a mission statement for the school district, which statement shall include making safety a priority in each public school of the school district.

(2) Safe school plan. In order to provide a learning environment that is safe, conducive to the learning process, and free from unnecessary disruption, following consultation with the school district accountability committee and school advisory councils, parents, teachers, administrators, students, student councils where available, and, where appropriate, the community at large, each school district board of education shall adopt and implement a safe school plan, or review and revise, if necessary, any existing plans or policies already in effect, which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(a) Conduct and discipline code. A concisely written conduct and discipline code that shall be enforced uniformly, fairly, and consistently for all students. Copies of the code shall be provided to each student upon enrollment at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and shall be posted or kept on file at each public school in the school district. The code shall include, but shall not be limited to:

(I) General policies on student conduct, safety, and welfare;

(II) General policies and procedures for dealing with students who cause a disruption in the classroom, on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events, ....

A behavior plan may be developed after the first such removal from class, and shall be developed after the second such removal from class...

(III) Provisions for the initiation of expulsion proceedings for students who qualify as habitually disruptive by causing a disruption in the classroom, on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events for a third time during a single school year or calendar year;

(IV) Policies and procedures for the use of acts of reasonable and appropriate physical intervention or force in dealing with disruptive students; except that no board shall adopt a discipline code that includes provisions that are in conflict with the definition of child abuse in section 18-6-401 (1), C.R.S., and section 19-1-103 (1), C.R.S.;

(V) General policies and procedures for determining the circumstances under and the manner in which disciplinary actions, including suspension and expulsion, shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of sections 22-33-105 and 22-33-106;

(VI) A specific policy concerning gang-related activities in the school, on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events;

(VII) Written prohibition, consistent with section 22-33-106, of students from bringing dangerous weapons, drugs, or other controlled substances to school, on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events and from using drugs, other controlled substances, or tobacco products on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events;

(VIII) A written policy concerning searches on school grounds, including student lockers;

(IX) A dress code policy that defines and prohibits students from wearing apparel that is deemed disruptive to the classroom environment or to the maintenance of a safe and orderly school. The dress code policy may require students to wear a school uniform or may establish minimum standards of dress; and

(X) On and after August 8, 2001, a specific policy concerning bullying prevention and education. For purposes of this subparagraph (X), "bullying" means any written or verbal expression, or physical act or gesture, or a pattern thereof, that is intended to cause distress upon one or more students in the school, on school grounds, in school vehicles, at a designated school bus stop, or at school activities or sanctioned events. The school district's policy shall include a reasonable balance between the pattern and the severity of such bullying behavior.

(b) Safe school reporting requirements. A policy whereby the principal of each public school in a school district shall submit annually....

(I), (II) (omitted);

(III) Dropout rates for grades seven through twelve, if such grades are taught at the school; and

(IV) The number of conduct and discipline code violations, including but not limited to specific information on the number of and the action taken with respect to each of the following types of violations:

(A) Carrying, bringing, using, or possessing a dangerous weapon on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events without the authorization of the school or the school district;

(B) Use or possession of alcohol on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events;

(C) Use, possession, or sale of a drug or controlled substance on school grounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events;

(D) Use or possession of tobacco products on school rounds, in school vehicles, or at school activities or sanctioned events;

(E) Being wilfully disobedient or openly and persistently defiant and interfering with the orderly flow of information in a classroom;

(F) Commission of an act on school grounds that, if committed by an adult, would be considered criminal assault, other than third degree assault;

(G) Behavior on or off school property that is detrimental to the welfare or safety of other students or of school personnel, including behavior that creates a threat of physical harm to the student or to other students;

(H) Willful destruction or defacement of school property;

(I) Repeated interference with the school's ability to provide educational opportunities to and a safe environment for other students;

(J) Commission of an act on school grounds that, if committed by an adult, would be considered robbery; and

(K) Other violations of the code of conduct and discipline that resulted in documentation of the conduct in a student's record.

(V), (VI), (VII) (Omitted)

(VIII) On and after August 8, 2001, the school's policy concerning bullying prevention and education, including information related to the development and implementation of any bullying prevention programs.

(3) Agreements with state agencies. Each board of education shall cooperate and, to the extent possible, develop written agreements with law enforcement officials, the juvenile justice system, and social services, as allowed under state and federal law, to keep each school environment safe.

(remainder omitted)

• Creates a single division (Prevention Services Division) in the Colorado department of public health and environment to operate prevention and intervention programs ...
• Division will operate the prevention and intervention programs
  • (a) The Tony Grampsas youth services program created in section 25-20.5-201;
  • (b) The Colorado youth mentoring services program created in section 25-20.5-203;
  • (c) The Colorado student dropout prevention and intervention program created in section 25-20.5-204;
  • (d) The Colorado children's trust fund created in article 3.5 of title 19, C.R.S.;
  • (e) The family resource center program created in section 26-18-104, C.R.S.
• The Tony Grampsas youth services program (youth crime prevention and intervention program) is established to provide state funding for community-based programs that target youth and their families for intervention services in an effort to reduce incidents of youth crime and violence.
• In addition, the Tony Grampsas youth services program shall promote prevention and education programs that are designed to reduce the occurrence and reoccurrence of child abuse and neglect and to reduce the need for state intervention in child abuse and neglect prevention and education.

Statute text (Excerpts)
(NOTE: Portions of the statute that do not pertain to student behavior have been omitted. Portions that relate to students' social-cognitive skills are highlighted in red. To see the full statute, click on Colorado Revised Statutes)

ARTICLE 20.5 PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR
CHILDREN AND YOUTH; PART 1 ADMINISTRATION

25-20.5-101. Legislative declaration.

(1) (omitted)

(2) The general assembly therefore finds that it is in the best interests of the children, youth, and families of the state to create a single division in the department of public health and environment to operate prevention and intervention programs and to oversee the provision of prevention, intervention, and treatment services through federally and state-funded prevention, intervention, and treatment programs to ensure collaboration among programs and the availability of a continuum of services for children and youth.

25-20.5-102. Definitions. (Omitted)

25-20.5-103. Prevention services division - creation.

(1) There is hereby created within the department of public health and environment a prevention services division....

25-20.5-104. Functions of division

(1) The division has the following functions:

(a) On or before February 1, 2001, to submit to the executive director, to the Tony Grampsas youth services board, and to the governor for approval a state plan for delivery of prevention, intervention, and treatment services to children and youth throughout the state as provided in section 25-20.5-105, and to biennially review the state plan and submit revisions as provided by rule of the state board of health to the executive director, the Tony Grampsas youth services board, and the governor for approval;

(b) To identify performance indicators for prevention, intervention, and treatment programs based on the standards adopted by the state board of health pursuant to section 25-20.5-106 (2) (d), and to review, as provided in section 25-20.5-108, all prevention, intervention, and treatment programs operated by the division and by other state departments;

(c) To act as a liaison with communities throughout the state and assist the communities in their efforts to assess their needs with regard to prevention, intervention, and treatment services and to provide information to assist the communities in obtaining funding for appropriate prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(d) To provide technical assistance to communities and to entities that provide prevention, intervention, and treatment services;

(e) To operate the prevention and intervention programs specified in this article and such other prevention and intervention programs as may be created in or transferred to the division by executive order to be funded solely by nonstate moneys, including but not limited to reviewing applications submitted by entities to receive funding through said programs, awarding grants based on such applications, and notifying the state board of health of the grants awarded and the amounts of said grants; except that the Tony Grampsas youth services board shall review applications and award grants for the programs specified in part 2 of this article;

(f) To solicit and accept grants from the federal governmentand to solicit and accept contributions, grants, gifts, bequests, and donations from individuals, private organizations, and foundations for the operation of any prevention and intervention programs under the authority of the division;

(g) To periodically review the federal funding guidelines for federal prevention, intervention, and treatment programs and to seek the maximum flexibility in the use of federal moneys in funding prevention, intervention, and treatment programs provided through the state plan;

(h) , (i) (omitted)

(2) In addition to any prevention and intervention programs created in or transferred to the division by executive order and any prevention and intervention programs transferred to the division by the executive director pursuant to subsection (4) of this section, the division shall operate the following prevention and intervention programs:

(a) The Tony Grampsas youth services program created in section 25-20.5-201;

(b) The Colorado youth mentoring services program created in section 25-20.5-203;

(c) The Colorado student dropout prevention and intervention program created in section 25-20.5-204;

(d) The Colorado children's trust fund created in article 3.5 of title 19, C.R.S.;

(e) The family resource center program created in section 26-18-104, C.R.S.

(3) In operating prevention and intervention programs, on receipt of an application for funding through any of said prevention and intervention programs, the division shall review the application and determine whether there are other prevention, intervention, and treatment programs operated by state agencies within this state through which funding may be available to the applicant. With the applicant's consent, the division shall forward a copy of the application to any such program for consideration.

(4) The executive director shall transfer any prevention and intervention programs operated by the department to the division, as he or she deems appropriate. The division shall collaborate with any other division within the department that operates a prevention, intervention, and treatment program in the same manner that it collaborates with other state agencies that operate prevention, intervention, and treatment programs.

25-20.5-105. State plan for delivery of prevention, intervention, and treatment services to children and youth - contents.

(1) On or before February 1, 2001, the division shall submit to the governor, the Tony Grampsas youth services board, and the executive director for approval a state plan for delivery of prevention, intervention, and treatment services to children and youth throughout the state. The state plan shall apply to all prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state or federal funds and are operated within the state. The state plan shall be designed to coordinate and provide direction for the delivery of prevention, intervention, and treatment services through the various prevention and intervention programs operated by the division and the prevention, intervention, and treatment programs operated by other state departments and to ensure collaboration among programs that results in a continuum of services available to children and youth throughout the state. At a minimum, the state plan shall:

(a) Target and prioritize community prevention, intervention, and treatment services needs throughout the state;

(b) Specify the standards for and measurable outcomesanticipated to be achieved by prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state and federal funds and the outcomes to be achieved through the coordination of said prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(c) Identify all state- and community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that are receiving state and federal fundsduring the fiscal years for which the plan is submitted and the schedule for review of said prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(d) Identify the methods by which the division shall encourage collaboration at the local level among public and private entities, including but not limited to private for-profit and nonprofit providers and faith-based services providers, in providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services;

(e) Include any other information required by rule of the state board of health.

(2) The division shall biennially review and revise the state plan as necessary to ensure the most efficient and effective delivery of prevention, intervention, and treatment services throughout the state. The division shall submit any revised state plan as provided by rule of the state board of health to the governor, the Tony Grampsas youth services board, and the executive director for approval.

(3) In preparing the state plan and biennial revisions to the state plan, the division shall hold at least two public meetings to receive input from members of the public and from state agencies and entities operating prevention, intervention, and treatment programs.

(4) (Omitted)

25-20.5-106. State board of health - rules - program duties.

(1) (Omitted)

(2) The state board of health also shall adopt rules for the uniform operation of federally and state-funded prevention, intervention, and treatment programs...

(a) Standardized procedures for the operation of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, including but not limited to:

(I) The use of a system whereby entities may use a single application to seek funding from a variety of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(II) The use of uniform application forms promulgated by rule of the state board of health;

(III) Uniform standards regarding the information to be submitted by entities applying for funding for community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(IV) Uniform application dates to the extent possible for all prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(V) Uniform standards for selecting community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive funding through state prevention, intervention, and treatment programs;

(VI), (VII) (Omitted)

(VIII) Internet access to each prevention, intervention, and treatment program;

(IX) The ability to submit applications and report submissions through the internet; and

(X) (Omitted)

(b) (Omitted)

(I) Provide research-based prevention, intervention, and treatment services that have been previously implemented in one or more communities with demonstrated success or that otherwise demonstrate a reasonable potential for success; and

(II) Provide outcome-based prevention, intervention, and treatment services, specifying the outcomes to be achieved; and

(III) Work collaboratively with other public and private prevention, intervention, and treatment programs in the community and with local governments, local health agencies, county departments of social services, and faith-based organizations in the community;

(c) Uniform standards and procedures for reviewing state and local prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state or federal funds;

(d) Performance standards and measurable outcomes for state and local prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that receive state or federal funds;

(e) Criteria for determining whether a program operated by a state agency constitutes a prevention, intervention, and treatment program;

(f) A formula for calculating the amount forwarded to the division by each prevention, intervention, and treatment program to offset the costs incurred by the division in reviewing the programs.

(3) The state board of health shall act as the program board for the oversight of the prevention and intervention programs operated by the division; except that the Tony Grampsas youth services board shall act as the program board for the programs specified in part 2 of this article and for any additional programs specified by executive order.

(4) (Omitted)

25-20.5-107, 25-20.5-108, 25-20.5-109.(Omitted)

PART 2 TONY GRAMPSAS YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM

25-20.5-201. Tony Grampsas youth services program - creation - standards - applications.

(1) (a) The youth crime prevention and intervention program created in part 28 of article 32 of title 24, C.R.S., as it existed prior to August 1, 2000, is hereby transferred to the division and is renamed the Tony Grampsas youth services program....

(b) The Tony Grampsas youth services program is established to provide state funding for community-based programs that target youth and their families for intervention services in an effort to reduce incidents of youth crime and violence. In addition, the Tony Grampsas youth services program shall promote prevention and education programs that are designed to reduce the occurrence and reoccurrence of child abuse and neglect and to reduce the need for state intervention in child abuse and neglect prevention and education.

(2) (a) (Omitted)

(b) Any grant awarded through the Tony Grampsas youth services program shall be paid from moneys appropriated pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection (2) or out of the general fund for such program. Each year, no less than twenty percent of the appropriation shall be designated and used exclusively for programs designed for children younger than nine years of age. The board, in accordance with the timelines adopted pursuant to section 25-20.5-202 (3), shall submit a list of the entities chosen to receive grants to the governor for approval. The governor shall either approve or disapprove the entire list of entities by responding to the board within twenty days. If the governor has not responded to the board within twenty days after receipt of the list, the list shall be deemed approved. No grants shall be awarded through the Tony Grampsas youth services program without the prior approval of the governor.

(c) Pursuant to section 24-75-1104.5 (1) (i), C.R.S., beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter so long as the state receives moneys pursuant to the master settlement agreement, the general assembly shall appropriate to the division for the Tony Grampsas youth services program four percent of the amount of moneys transmitted to the state treasurer in accordance with the master settlement agreement, other than attorney fees and costs, for the preceding fiscal year; except that the amount so appropriated to the division in any fiscal year shall not exceed five million dollars. The general assembly shall appropriate the amount specified in this paragraph (c) from moneys credited to the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund created in section 24-22-115, C.R.S.

(3), (4), (5) (Omitted)

25-20.5-202. Tony Grampsas youth services board - members - duties - student dropout prevention and intervention fund - creation.

(1) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) (Omitted)

(2) (a) (Omitted)

(b) In addition to the guidelines developed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection (2), the board shall develop criteria for awarding grants under the Tony Grampsas youth services program including but not limited to the following requirements:

(I) That the program is operated in cooperation with a local government, a local governmental agency, or a local nonprofit or not-for-profit agency;

(II) That the program is community-based, receiving input from organizations in the community such as schools, community mental health centers, local nonprofit or not-for-profit agencies, local law enforcement agencies, businesses, and individuals within the community; and

(III) That the program is directed at providing intervention services to youth and their families in an effort to decrease incidents of crime and violence or that the program is directed at providing services to at-risk students and their families in an effort to reduce the dropout rate in secondary schools pursuant to section 25-20.5-204. If an entity is seeking a grant from the board for a student dropout prevention and intervention program pursuant to section 25-20.5-204, one of the criteria the board shall consider is whether the program has been implemented elsewhere, if known, and, if so, the relative success of such program. It shall not be required, however, that the program be previously implemented in order for the board to award a grant to such entity.

(c) In addition to the guidelines and criteria developed pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection (2), the board shall develop result-oriented criteria for measuring the effectiveness of programs that receive grants under the Tony Grampsas youth services program as deemed appropriate to the nature of each program including, but not limited to, requiring grantees to evaluate the impact of the services provided by the program. Any criteria developed pursuant to this paragraph (c) for measuring the effectiveness of student dropout prevention and intervention programs established pursuant to section 25-20.5-204 shall include the implementation of a method by which to track the students served by the program to evaluate the impact of the services provided, which tracking shall continue, if possible, for at least two years or through graduation from a secondary school, whichever occurs first.

(3), (4), (5)(Omitted)

25-20.5-203. "Colorado Youth Mentoring Services Act".

(1) Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Colorado Youth Mentoring Services Act".

(2) Legislative declaration.

(a) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that mentoring programs such as big brothers, big sisters, and partners have been active in Colorado for many years. The general assembly finds that national research has indicated that structured mentoring programs are effective tools in combating youth substance abuse and youth crime and violence. The general assembly further finds, based upon recent national research results, that at-risk youth who are matched in a minimum of year-long mentoring relationships are less likely to become involved in substance and alcohol abuse, less likely to be truant, less likely to commit violent acts against other persons, and more likely to show improvements in academic performance and positive peer relations.

(b) The general assembly further finds that, despite the positive results that may be achieved through structured youth mentoring programs, as many as thirty-eight counties in the state of Colorado do not have the organizational resources necessary to carry out successful mentoring programs...

(c) The general assembly therefore declares and determines that the provision of youth mentoring services that would use public and private entities to recruit, train, screen, and supervise adult volunteers to serve as mentors for at-risk youth would be beneficial and in the best interests of the citizens of the state of Colorado.

(3) Definition. For purposes of this section, "at-risk youth" means a person who is at least five years of age but who is less than eighteen years of age and who is challenged by such risk factors as poverty, residence in a substance-abusing household, family conflict, association with peers who commit crimes, residence in a single-parent household, exhibition of indicia of delinquent behavior, or being the victim of child abuse.

(4) Provision of youth mentoring services. There is hereby created the Colorado youth mentoring program for the purpose of providing state funding for the provision of community-based youth mentoring services that target at-risk youths in an effort to reduce substance abuse and to decrease the incidents of youth crime and violence. ...

25-20.5-204. Colorado student dropout prevention and intervention program.

(1) Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Colorado Student Dropout Prevention and Intervention Act".

(2) Legislative declaration. The general assembly hereby finds that:

(a) During the last decade, over one hundred thousand students in Colorado left school without successfully completing a high school program; (10,000/year)

(b) In 1996, three million six hundred thousand young adults in the United States were neither enrolled in school nor had they completed a high school program;

(c) In the 1995-1996 academic year, approximately thirteen thousand students withdrew from Colorado schools prior to receiving a diploma, resulting in a four percent dropout rate;

(d) Of those students who withdrew from Colorado schools prior to receiving a diploma, approximately five thousand nine hundred were minority students;

(e) The dropout rate of minority students in Colorado is significantly greater than that of nonminority students;

(f) Numerous factors, including socioeconomic background, lack of adult support, and the inability to communicate well in English, influence a student's decision to drop out of school;

(g) Research has shown that, compared with high school graduates, relatively more dropouts are unemployed, and those dropouts who do succeed in finding work tend to earn less money than high school graduates; and

(h) High school dropouts are more likely to apply for and receive public assistance than high school graduates.

(3) Definitions. For purposes of this section:

(a) "At-risk students" means students in secondary schools who are at risk of dropping out of school because of their socioeconomic background, lack of adult support, language barriers, or other identified indicators that cause students to drop out of school.

(4) Colorado student dropout prevention and intervention program. ....to provide services to at-risk students and their families in an effort to reduce the dropout rate in secondary schools through an appropriate combination of academic and extracurricular activities designed to enhance the overall education and edification of students in secondary schools.

Prevention Services
Division

Press Release

Colorado Anti-Bullying Project

• Teachers
• Parents
• Youth
• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School

Expelled and at-risk of Expulsion Students - Exemplary Programs

FUNDING SOURCES
(Example Only - Not intended to be an exhaustive list)

Elementary & Secondary Education

• Legislation
• Regulations
• Policy Guidance

No Child Left Behind(NCLB) Act of 2001

• Overview
• The Problem
• Table of Contents
• Title IV — 21st Century Schools(401)
  • PART A — SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES(4001)
    • SEC. 4124. SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
    • SEC. 4125. NATIONAL COORDINATOR PROGRAM

Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program A program of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), is the Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing violence and drug, alcohol and tobacco use, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools. Through the SDFS website, you can learn more about Model Programs, Drug and Violence Prevention Grants and Applications, Research, Publications, and News.

Drug-Violence Prevention - State Programs
The Drug-Violence Prevention (DVP) State Programs group administers Title IV, SDFSCA authorized by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 and other programs related to developing and maintaining safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools.

• Community Service Grants (Formula Grants)
• Governors' Grants (Formula Grants)
• Grants to States to Improve Management of Drug and Violence Prevention Programs (Discretionary Grants)
• Safe and Drug-Free Schools Native Hawaiian Program (Discretionary Grants)
• State Formula Grants for SEAs (Formula Grants)

Drug-Violence Prevention - National Programs
The Drug-Violence Prevention (DVP) National Programs group administers Title IV, SDFSCA authorized by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 and other programs related to developing and maintaining safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools.

• Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses (Discretionary Grants)
• Alternative Strategies to Reduce Student Suspensions and Expulsions Discretionary Grants (Discretionary Grants)
• Demonstration Grants for Student Drug Testing (Discretionary Grants)
• Discretionary Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (Discretionary Grants)
• Drug Prevention and School Safety Program Coordinators (Discretionary Grants)
• Grant Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking and Violent Behavior Among College Students (Discretionary Grants)
• The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
• Mentoring Grants (Discretionary Grants)
• Model Demonstration Grants to Create Safe and Orderly Environments (Discretionary Grants)
• School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) (Discretionary Grants)

21st Century Community Learning Centers, supported by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), focuses on providing safe and drug-free learning environments in after-school, weekend, and summer programs for youth.

Center for the Study & Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
CSPV helps build bridges between the research community, practitioners and policy makers in the field of violence prevention. The CSVP Information House collects literature and resources on the causes and prevention of violence. CSPV also provides technical assistance for developing and evaluating violence prevention programs.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC)
Provides resources for professionals, parents, youth, and the Press working to prevent violence committed by and against young people. Resources cover a broad range of Violence Prevention Topics.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The SAMHSA Model Intervention and Prevention Programs have been tested in communities, schools, social service organizations, and workplaces across America, and have provided solid proof that they have prevented or reduced high-risk behaviors.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
This office of the U.S. Department of Justice administers multiple programs related to violence and delinquency prevention issues. Visit their site to learn about OJJDP programs, funding opportunities, and online publications. Through the Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative, OJJDP provides information on violence prevention and intervention programs that have been proven to be effective.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools; Overview Information; Safe
Schools/Healthy Students;
Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004

Purpose of Program: This program provides Federal financial assistance to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to implement an integrated, comprehensive community- wide plan designed to create safe and drug-free schools and promote prosocial skills and healthy childhood development in youth.

Estimated Available Funds: $42,000,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $2,000,000 per year.

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 9, 2004.

ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION
Public Law PL 107-110, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Sec. 401. 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS.
TITLE IV — 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS

PART A — SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
Sec. 4003. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Subpart 1 — State Grants

Sec. 4111. RESERVATIONS AND ALLOTMENTS.
Sec. 4112. RESERVATION OF STATE FUNDS FOR SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS.
Sec. 4113. STATE APPLICATION.
Sec. 4114. LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY PROGRAM.
Sec. 4115. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.
Sec. 4116. REPORTING.
Sec. 4117. PROGRAMS FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

Grants to States to Improve Management of Drug and Violence Prevention Programs

Emergency Planning
A one-stop website that provides school leaders with information needed to plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents, and terrorist acts.

Promoting Safe & Drug-Free Schools
A guide to creating safe and drug-free schools. Includes information on related federal legislation and programs, guns, gangs, student mental health, and preventative resources.

• Current Funding
• Grant Management System
• Other Federal Funding