**U.S. Department of Education**

**Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools**

**Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative**

**Background**

Since 1999, the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human
Services, and Justice have collaborated on the Safe Schools/Healthy
Students (SS/HS) Initiative. The SS/HS Initiative is a discretionary
grant program that provides students, schools, and communities with
federal funding to implement an enhanced, coordinated, comprehensive
plan of activities, programs, and services that focus on promoting
healthy childhood development and preventing violence and alcohol and
other drug abuse. Eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) or a
consortium of LEAs, in partnership with their community's local public
mental health authority, local law enforcement agency, and local
juvenile justice entity, are able to submit a single application for
federal funds to support a variety of activities, curriculums, programs,
and services.

The SS/HS Initiative draws on the best practices of education, justice,
social services, and mental health systems to provide integrated and
comprehensive resources for prevention programs and prosocial services
for youth. To apply for SS/HS, FY 2004 grantees and their partners
proposed an integrated, comprehensive, communitywide, and
community-specific plan to address the problems of school violence and
alcohol and other drug abuse. This plan focused on six elements:

-   Element 1: Safe school environment.

-   Element 2: Alcohol and other drugs and violence prevention and early
    intervention programs.

-   Element 3: School and community mental health preventive and
    treatment intervention services.

-   Element 4: Early childhood psychosocial and emotional development
    programs.

-   Element 5: Supporting and connecting schools and communities.

-   Element 6: Safe school policies.

SS/HS grantee's comprehensive plans are designed to provide students,
schools, and families with a network of effective services, supports,
and activities that help students develop the skills and emotional
resilience necessary to promote positive mental health, engage in
prosocial behavior, and prevent violent behavior and drug use; create
schools and communities that are a safe, disciplined, and drug-free
environment; and engage parents, community organizations, and social
services agencies to help develop an infrastructure that will
institutionalize and sustain successful grant components after federal
funding has ended.

SS/HS grant applicants are eligible for 3 consecutive years of funding.
Continuation funding is subject to the availability of federal funds and
progress achieved by the grantee. The maximum yearly award for SS/HS
grants is \$1 million for rural school districts and Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) schools, \$2 million for suburban school districts, and
\$3 million for urban districts.

In making awards under this grant program, the federal SS/HS partners
may (1) take into consideration the geographic distribution and
diversity of activities addressed by the projects, in addition to the
rank order of the applicant's scores, and (2) in accordance with Section
75.217 (d) of the Education Department General Administrative
Regulations, ensure equitable distribution of grants under this
initiative among urban, suburban, rural, and BIA LEAs. Contingent on the
availability of funds, the federal SS/HS partners may make additional
awards in fiscal year (FY) 2005 from the rank-ordered list of scores of
unfunded applicants from this competition.

**Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative**

**FY 2004 New Grant Awards**

**ALASKA**

Juneau City and Borough of Juneau School District \$960,730

Contact: Peggy Cowan, Superintendent

\(907\) 363-1700

**ARIZONA**

Yuma Yuma Elementary School District \$2,627,041

Contact: Tom Rushin, Superintendent

\(928\) 502-4303

> *COPS Award \$500,000*

**ARKANSAS**

West Memphis West Memphis School District \$2,875,066

Contact: Bill Kessinger, Superintendent

\(870\) 735-1915

**CALIFORNIA**

Bakersfield Bakersfield City School District \$ 2,601,628

Contact: Dr. Jean Fuller, Superintendent

\(661\) 631-4611

Cerritos ABC Unified School District \$1,904,539

Contact: Ronald Barnes, Ed.D., Superintendent

\(562\) 926-5566

Napa Napa County Office of Education \$1,922,267

Contact: Barbara Nemko, Superintendent

\(707\) 253-6810

**GEORGIA**

Alamo Wheeler County Board of Education \$953,182

Contact: Wm. Ronny Clark

\(912\) 568-7198

**IDAHO**

Lapwai Lapwai School District \$957,789

Contact: Harold Ott, Superintendent

\(208\) 843-2622

**ILLINOIS**

Joliet Joliet Township High School District \$1,241,380

Contact: Dr. Paul Swanstrom, Superintendent

\(815\) 727-6970

Junction Gallatin County School District \$946,681

Contact: Les Oyler, Superintendent

\(618\) 272-3821

**INDIANA**

Crawfordsville Crawfordsville Community School Corporation \$953,195

Contact: Dr. Kathleen J. Steele, Superintendent

\(765\) 362-2342

**IOWA**

Lineville Lineville-Clio Community School District \$862,815

Contact: Robert McCurdy, Superintendent

\(641\) 876-5345

Waukon Allamakee Community School District \$946,919

Contact: John Speer, Superintendent

\(563\) 568-3409

**LOUISIANA**

Lafayette Lafayette Parish School System \$2,814,465

Contact: James H. Easton, Ed.D., Superintendent

\(337\) 236-6825

**MASSACHUSETTES**

Boston Boston Public Schools \$2,871,774

Contact: Thomas W. Payzant, Superintendent

\(617\) 635-9050

**MISSOURI**

Cabool Cabool R-IV School District \$957,540

Contact: Wesley L. Davis, Superintendent

\(417\) 962-3153

**NEW JERSEY**

Hackensack Bergen County Technical Schools District \$1,610,657

Contact: John Grieco, Ed.D., Superintendent

\(201\) 343-6000

> *COPS AWARD \$250,000*

**NEW YORK**

Mount Vernon Mount Vernon City School District \$1,830,804

Contact: Brenda L. Smith, Superintendent

\(914\) 665-5201

**NORTH CAROLINA**

Laurinburg Scotland County Schools \$947,980

Contact: Dr. Shirley B. Prince, Superintendent

\(910\) 276-1138

**OHIO**

Sandusky Sandusky City Schools \$915,288

Contact: William Pahl, Superintendent

\(419\) 621-2718

**SOUTH CAROLINA**

Chester Chester County School District \$956,753

Contact: Barry E. Campbell, Superintendent

\(803\) 581-9501

Manning Clarendon County School District Two \$954,017

Contact: John Tindall, Superintendent

\(803\) 435-4435

*COPS Award \$183,820*

**TENESSEE**

Franklin Franklin Special School District \$1,912,648

Contact: David L. Snowden, Ph.D., Superintendent

\(615\) 794-6624

**WASHINGTON**

Spokane Spokane School District #81 \$2,762,384

Contact: Dr. Brian L. Benzel, Superintendent

\(509\) 354-7364

Total FY 2004 New Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Grants:
\$38,287,541

# Total FY 2004 COPS Awards to Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grantees: \$933,820

**Grand Total: \$39,221,361**