Alternative Strategies grants to reduce suspensions and expulsions and ensure educational progress of suspended and expelled students. This effort will fund projects to enhance, implement and evaluate strategies to reduce the number and duration of suspensions and expulsions and ensure continued educational progress through challenging course work for students that are suspended or expelled. Determining factors include greatest need for counseling services in schools served, innovative and promising approaches and greatest potential for replication and dissemination. Life Skills seeks to prevent gateway substance abuse by impacting risk factors associated with alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use. The program spans three years and provides 15 lessons to be taught to 6th or 7th graders in the first year, with booster sessions in the second and third years.
Training is provided for project personnel all three years.
Eventually, it will allow applicants to submit proposals through the internet. Violence Prevention Resource Resources are available from the National Resource Center for School Safety. They have a variety of online resources, including Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence . A guide to selected US Department of Education grant programs and funding opportunities. The National Gardening Association welcomes applications for the 2001 Youth Garden grants.