Bridging the Gap: Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools for a Brighter Future

1. Post Safe and Drug Free Schools: Bridging the Gap Spring Regional Educational Service Centers Tour The Future of Prevention Barbara Seitz de Martinez, PhD, MLS, CPP Indiana Prevention Resource Center April 2011

2. Overlapping Spheres of Influence Source: Risk and Protective Factor Overview, http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/spf/page.php?category=Capacity

3. The Purpose of Safe and Drug-Free Schools to foster a safe, drug-free learning environment • that supports student academic achievementthrough programs, policies and activities that: • prevent violence in and around schools; • prevent the illegal use of ATOD; • involve parents and communities; and • coordinate with related efforts and resources • Source: Title IV, 21st Century Schools, Part A, purpose (1). http://www.doe.in.gov/sdfsc/docs/TitleIV.pdf

4. To Create Safe and Orderly Schools (Title IV) • Calls for commitment and community will • Aims to create a desirable educational environment • Involves families, schools and community leaders • Adopts strategies to achieve desired goals • Assess readiness, needs and resources • Build capacity • Develop a strategic plan • Implement evidence-based strategies • Evaluate • Assure cultural competency • Achieve sustainability Based on Creating Safe and Drug Free Schools: An Action Guide, Sept, 1996 And Strategic Prevention Framework of SAMHSA, CSAP.

5. Areas of Special Concern • Preventing Drug Use and Violence • Truancy • Conflict Resolution • Mentoring • Bullying Prevention

6. Alternative Means to Achieve the Goals of SDFS • Identify untapped resources • Determine their relevancy • Learn how to best use these resources • Leverage them to obtain additional help • Join forces with appropriate others

7. Community Improvement Model • How to reach and get your message to your desired target audience, e.g., funders. • How to create a data dissemination plan Current Situation Assessment Improvement Cultural Competence Sustainability Evaluation Planning Source: Implementation

8. Types of Available Resources and Expertise • Sustainability • Data and GIS • Library resources – online and for loan • Info about E-B programs/policies/practices • Capacity building resources and training • Technical Assistance, consultation and training

9. Sustainability • Learn about grant opportunities • PREV-L announces grant opportunities • IYI web site • IPRC grantsmanship resource

12. Multiple Strategies Across Multiple Domains • Graph by BSM Families Other Schools School Community State, Nation, World

13. Multiple Strategies– to be applied appropriately across domains • Traditional media • Social Media • Events • Partnerships and Collaboration • Grants • Direct solicitation • Others

14. Multiple Strategies– School Connectedness • Adult Support • Belonging to a Positive Peer Group • Commitment to Education • School Environment Source: CDC, School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors among /youth, 2009. http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/adolescenthealth/connectedness.htm

15. The Art of Collaboration • With whom • Why – for what • How – planning • When – timing

16. Basis for Collaboration • Shared vision, mission • Common target audience, leadership • Complementary needs and assets • Etc.

17. In your opinion, what percent of your school’s potential is it currently fulfilling with regard to making use of potential collaborations to reach the goals of SDFS? 30 • 100% • 75% • 50% • 25% • Less than 25% 0

18. Joining Forces – Examples of Appropriate Others • Other Educational Agencies • Local Coordinating Councils/Coalition • Prevention Agencies and Experts • Law Enforcement Agencies • Treatment Providers • Community Businesses, Media, Government • Youth Serving Agencies • Public Libraries • State and National Agencies and Services

19. Imagine Indiana Together Vision: Healthy, safe and drug-free environment . . . nurture and assist … Indiana citizens to thrive • Source: Imagine Indiana Together, Mission: To reduce substance use and abuse across the lifespan Involves people, resources, and infrastructure.

20. Technical Assistance/Training to: • Assess (Needs, Resources and Readiness) • Build Capacity • Plan – Strategically • Create a data dissemination plan • Design and deliver key messages to targeted audiences – for readiness, prepare the field • Implement -- with Fidelity • Evaluate – for improvement as you go • Assure cultural competency and sustainability • These steps can be overlapping, concurrent and/or sequential Source:

22. Examples of Topics for TA and/or Training – Which for which? Source:

23. How to ID Collaborators • Shared goals and vision • Shared values and common principles • Shared target audience/customers • Systems support sharing information/data • Staff development/training • Joint accountability • Sustainable budgeting and funding Source: Adapted from Bea Northcott, Triple Impact, LCC, “Sustaining Collaborative Initiatives, April 1, 2010

24. TA about Collaboration • How to identify appropriate collaborators • Natural life cycle of collaborations • Developmental stages • Ground Rules • How to measure strengths and weaknesses Source: Adapted from Sidney Gardner, Beyond Collaboration to Results, and Bea Northcott, Triple Impact, LCC, “Sustaining Collaborative Initiatives, April 1, 2010

25. IPRC Data Sources Source: www.drugs.indiana.edu/spf/page.php?category=Assessment Source: See www.drugs.indiana.edu

26. Inevitably…. • There will be obstacles along the way. http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/1040516534015901341MFYhbt

27. Library --Resources/Expertise

28. IPRC Home Library – All online resources

29. Library --Resources/Expertise

30. IPRC Loan Library – All online resources

31. Loan Library DVDs, Bullying11 items found

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40. DATA --Resources/Expertise

42. IPRC Data Sources • County Profiles (data tables/maps for 92 Cos.) • Youth Risk Factor Data from IN Youth Survey • IN College Alcohol Survey • Health Condition Indicators • Assessment Tools, including Data Sources Source: See www.drugs.indiana.edu

43. IPRC Data Sources Source: See www.drugs.indiana.edu

44. www.stats.indiana.edu www.stats.indiana.edu

45. BRFSS includes: • Prevalence and Trends Data • SMART: BRFSS City and County Data, Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/

46. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/

47. BRFSS includes: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/index.asp

48. How do you think your metro area compares to the nation for health status? • Better Than • More or less the same • Worse Than 0 of 30

49. BRFSS includes: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss-smart/index.asp

50. NSDUH: https://nsduhweb.rti.org/