[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5839-5840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2824]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
[OJP(OJJDP)-1208]
RIN 1121-ZB44
Notice of Intent To Make Funds Available for School Violence
Prevention and Early Childhood Development Activities Under the Safe
Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
AGENCIES: Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); Department of Justice, Office of
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS); Department of Education,
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Safe and Drug-Free
Schools Program; Department of Health and Human Services, Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for
Mental Health Services (CMHS).
ACTION: Notice of intent to make funds available to enhance and
implement comprehensive community-wide strategies for creating safe and
drug-free schools and promoting healthy childhood development.
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SUMMARY: The Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human
Services are collaborating to provide students with enhanced
comprehensive educational, mental health, law enforcement, and as
appropriate, juvenile justice system services and activities designed
to ensure the development of the social skills and emotional resilience
necessary to avoid drug use and violent behavior and the creation of
safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools.
Through a single application process, successful applicants will
receive support for up to three years. Awards will be made to
approximately 50 sites, ranging from up to $3 million per year for
urban school districts, up to $2 million per year for suburban school
districts, and up to $1 million per year for rural school districts and
tribal schools designated as local education agencies by their states.
DATES: It is anticipated that the program solicitation and application
will be available no later than March 15, 1999.
CONTACT: Detailed information regarding the Safe Schools Healthy/
Students Initiative is available at: Internet:http://www.ed.gov/
offices/OESE/SDFS Fax-on-Demand: Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse (800)
638-8736
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority
This action is authorized under the Omnibus Consolidated and
Emergency Supplemental Appropriation Act of 1999, Public Law 105-277.
Background
The purpose of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative is to
assist schools and communities to enhance and implement comprehensive
community-wide strategies for creating safe and drug-free schools and
promoting healthy childhood development. Eligible activities may
include, but are not limited to, programs such as mentoring, conflict
resolution, after school, multisystemic therapy, functional family
therapy, social skills building, school-based probation, student
assistance, teen courts, truancy prevention, alternative education,
developing information sharing systems, staff professional development,
hiring additional school resource officers, and treatment efforts that
involve the juvenile justice system and schools. Interventions selected
must have evidence of effectiveness.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must demonstrate evidence of
a comprehensive community-wide strategy that at minimum consists of six
general topic areas: (1) School safety, (2) drug and violence
prevention and early intervention programs, (3) school and community
mental health prevention and intervention services, (4) early childhood
psychosocial and emotional development programs, (5) education reform,
and (6) safe school policies. The plan must be developed by a
partnership comprising the local education agency, local public mental
health authority, local law enforcement agency, family members,
students, and juvenile justice officials. The local education agency
will be required to submit formal written agreements signed by the
school superintendent, the head of the local public mental health
authority, and the chief law enforcement executive to be certified as
an eligible applicant. Applicants will be strongly encouraged to
demonstrate partnerships with businesses, social services, faith
communities, and other community-based organizations that support the
educational, emotional and health needs of students in the school
district.
Applicants must conduct a basic assessment of the community risks
and assets related to children and adolescents and have a plan for
continual updating of this assessment. Assessments shall include, but
are not limited to, numbers or percentages of the following: Students
engaged in alcohol and drug use and violent behavior, firearms brought
to school, incidents of serious and violent crime in schools, suicide
attempts, students suspended and/or expelled from school, students
receiving probation services, and students in juvenile justice
placements. Applicants must also provide an assessment of the community
resources available for children and adolescents, including number of
after school programs, percentage of youth served by programs to build
social skills, and number and quality of community mental health and
social service organizations available to provide services to children
and adolescents.
Applicants must develop a plan for assessing the community-wide
strategy and agree to participate in a national evaluation of this
initiative. Applicants that do not have the capability to collect
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data or develop a plan for assessing their strategy will be encouraged
to join with a local university, research organization, or other
appropriate entity to assist with these activities.
Shay Bilchik,
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Joseph E. Brann,
Director, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Gerald N. Tirozzi,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-2824 Filed 2-4-99; 8:45 am]
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