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Safe Schools Healthy Students

Safe Schools Healthy Students. Uniondale Union Free School District (3-year Grant). Grant Process. Determination of need Grant writer Collaborative effort Central administration Building administration District administration Teaching Staff Outside agencies Support Staff Community

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Safe Schools Healthy Students

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  1. Safe SchoolsHealthy Students Uniondale Union Free School District (3-year Grant)

  2. Grant Process • Determination of need • Grant writer • Collaborative effort • Central administration • Building administration • District administration • Teaching Staff • Outside agencies • Support Staff • Community • Universities

  3. FocusPopulationPre-K to 12 Receive services for: • Healthy child development • Positive mental health • Safe, disciplined, alcohol and drug-free learning environment

  4. Student Selection Criteria • Students at-risk • Teacher referrals • Parent recommendations • Students in need of improvement • Administrator referrals • School-based management team referrals • Placement in alternative school • NYS Test Scores below proficiency

  5. Student Selection Criteria • Identified as gang member or family gang involvement • Substance Abuse • Students with disabilities • English Language Learners • Eligible for free and reduced lunch • Exhibit emotional disturbances • Homeless

  6. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • Provide and maintain safe school environment

  7. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • Provide and maintain a safe and drug free school environment

  8. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • Provide support and resources for at-risk youngsters, their parents and community

  9. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • To insure that students who enter kindergarten in Uniondale have skills to succeed in a safe school environment

  10. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • To provide educational reform to improve educational outcomes for Uniondale youth through community engagement

  11. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • Provide school policies that maintain order and ensure safety for the entire school community

  12. Safe SchoolsHealthyStudents • Enhance integrated community partnerships between schools, law enforcement, mental health, juvenile justice, community and faith- based organizations to build and maintain safe and drug free schools

  13. Data Sources • Recommendations from District Safety and Human Resources Committees • Surveys of PPS, parents and students • Uniondale Violence Intervention Partnership (UVIP) • Uniondale UFSD student data • Student Performance • Nassau County and Hempstead Police • 1990 and 2000 Census data • Nassau County Youth Board

  14. Research-Based The best safe school plans involve the entire community • Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, 1998 • Mulhern, 1994 • Stephens, 1998

  15. Highlights • Project director • Mental health coordinator • Data manager • Six (6) social workers • Two (2) vans for mobile social worker services • Provide LI Crisis Center services 3 p.m.-8 a.m. • After-School Program

  16. Highlights • Critical care for academics, Advanced Regents Prep & Level 2 students on the bubble • Violence Prevention programs • Staff development in: - Early intervention - Crisis intervention - Violent and suicidal behaviors - Referrals and follow-up protocol

  17. Highlights • Screening for gross motor difficulties • Youth development to resist gangs and drugs • Adopt a student • Parent Programs to build capacity to support education of their children • Adult-Child Mentoring • Translation of materials in 3 languages

  18. Highlights (continued) Security: • Four (4) part-time security officers • Interior/exterior security cameras • Fifty (50) security radios Equipment/programs: • Video management software • Digital Cameras • Laptops

  19. Monitoring and Evaluation • Program review and modification • Continual feedback • Periodic updates to community • Medial summary of data on student behavior, academic, career, personal and social development Final evaluation: Quantitative and Qualitative

  20. $1,800,000 total Renewable each year 3-year Period

  21. Safe SchoolsHealthy Students Uniondale Union Free School District (3-year Grant)

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