SCSC: Southern Minnesota Safe Schools Healthy Students Colllaborative

The Southern Minnesota Safe Schools Healthy Students Collaborative is a discretionary grant program

that provides school district members and their communities with federal funding to implement a coordinated and comprehensive plan of activities, curricula, programs, and services that focus on creating safe school environments, promoting healthy childhood development, and preventing youth violence and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use.

District members partner with local public mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies to develop and submit a community-specific SSHS comprehensive consortium plan that addresses the following five elements:

PLANNING COMMITTEE/MEMBERS

Members
LEA Enrollment for the Narrative
Research Based Interventions Listed by LEA for All Elements (Updated 02/14/09)
Private School Statement and Students and Parents Involvement
District Element’s Protective Factors (Updated 01/22/09)
Programs Under Consideration: Strategies by Element (Updated 01/07/09)
Draft Budget (Updated 02/13/09)
School Social Worker/Counselor/Research-based Program Facilitator Job Description
Narrative (February 19, 2009)
Meetings:
- February 20, 2009
  Agenda for Meeting
- February 6, 2009
  Agenda for Meeting
- January 23, 2009
  Meeting Minutes
  Agenda for Meeting
- January 9, 2009
  Meeting Minutes
  Agenda for Meeting
  Task List for Meeting
- December 5, 2008
  Agenda for Meeting
  Task List for Meeting
- November 7, 2008
  Meeting Minutes
  Agenda for Meeting
  Task List for Meeting
- October 31, 2008
  Summary of Meeting
  Agenda for Meeting

GRANT

Sample Memoranda of Agreement (Updated 02/18/09)
Grant Writing Timeline
Application
Sample Grant
APPENDIX A: History of Collaboration (Updated 02/18/09; Also available as a Microsoft Word file) and Project Logic Model (Updated 02/19/09)
APPENDIX B: Program-Specific Assurance for Competitive Preference for Novice SS/HS Applicants
APPENDIX C: NCES District Information Page and Brief Description of LEAs
APPENDIX D: Budgets
APPENDIX E: Position Descriptions and Project Timelines
APPENDIX F: Department of Education and Other Federal Administrative Requirements

FEDERAL SITE

Federal Initiative Web Site

RESOURCES

Research based program sites
http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/
http://www.modelprograms.samhsa.gov/
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
http://www.casel.org/programs/action.php

SSHS sustainability model and other grantee resources
http://www.promoteprevent.org/Resources/legacy_wheel/index.html