Training will be provided to increase parental involvement throughout the school district and outreach recruitment for school volunteers will involve parents and the community in these prevention efforts. Parents will be involved in all aspects of program design and oversight. Early intervention plans are in place for middle and high schools, involving reading and literacy programs, truancy prevention, and gang interventions. The initiative will also work to integrate an existing mixture of services into an integrated continuum with strong assessment, individualized care, and a well-articulated system of referral and follow up. Crisis counseling, violence mediation, and response planning for high schools will be enhanced in the middle schools through the addition of a second crisis intervention team.
School reform is a focus throughout the planned prevention and early intervention projects.
Student-driven teams will identify environmental school security issues and oversee implementation of strategies to address them. The evaluation of this project will be conducted by the Child Services Research Group of the University of California and overseen by an Evaluation Committee, which will be a standing committee of the School Safety Oversight Council.