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What is the purpose of this program?
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 the benefit of enhanced comprehensive services. Local educational, mental health, social service, law enforcement (and sometimes juvenile justice) agency partnerships are supported by SS/HS grant funds to develop, implement, and integrate a comprehensive system of services that focuses on promoting healthy childhood development and preventing violence and alcohol and other drug abuse.
How can these funds be used?
Safe Schools/Healthy Students comprehensive plans include a variety of prevention and intervention services and activities that target the development of social skills and emotional resilience necessary for young people to avoid drug use and violent behavior. Applicants are required to address planned activities in six areas:
- Safe school environment
- Alcohol and other drug and violence prevention and early intervention programs
- School and community mental health preventive and treatment intervention services
- Early childhood psychosocial and emotional development programs
- Educational reform
- Safe school policies
What are the eligibility requirements?
Eligible applicants are LEAs.
What is the application or allocation process?
Funds from the partnering Federal agencies are transferred to ED and awarded to LEAs as direct discretionary awards.
Funding Process for Schools:
Direct discretionary grants
Total FY 2004 Funding:
$162,453,000
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
This information also appears at the US Department of Education:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpsafeschools/index.html
Authorizing Legislation:
Title IV, Part A, Subpart 2, Section 4121 of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) authorized by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994.
Name: Jane Jodgdon
Phone: (202) 260-3954
Email: Jane.Hodgdon@ed.gov
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