Safe and Drug Free Schools
Program Activities

Each school system of the First District RESA Safe & Drug Free Schools & Communities Program consortium, are eligible to receive a full range of services and technical assistance.  The following is a breakdown of the program activities provided through this consortium.

• Assistance to school systems in meeting the following legislative mandates:  Title IV of the No Child Left Behind, The Seventh National Educational Goals, Gun Free Schools Act of 1994, and the Pro-child Act of 1994.
• Assist school systems in conducting annual needs assessment instruments in order to target prevention activities at local levels.
  
• Provide training and staff development to implement drug prevention curriculum that is research based:
                              Mendez Too Good for Drugs II K-12
                              Botvin Life Skills - Grades 6-12
                              Positive Action - Grades K-8
                              Asset Building
                              Drug Free Workplace
                              Reasonable Suspicion for Administrators
                              Supervising the Loading of Buses
  

• Provide training and staff development to implement violence prevention programs:
                              Second Step Curriculum K-8
                              Bullying Prevention
                              School Safety Strategies
                              CPI ~ Nonviolent Crisis Prevention
                                         and Intervention Training
                              Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation
                              Crisis Management
                              Classroom Management
                              Suicide Prevention/Intervention
                              Stress Management
  

• Provide effective skill building programs or other activities which are designed to improve, enhance or change behaviors:
                              Anger Management Skills
                              Covey Habits for Teens
                              Leadership Skills for Teens
                              Student Athletic Leadership Skills
                              Peer Helpers
                              Mentoring
  
• Assist School systems in implementing and evaluating programs conducted in regards to their Schedule A's of the Consolidated Application Process and other state/federal reporting requirements.