Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program

1. Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program Mrs. Patrice Harris Intervention Supervisor

2. Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program (AKA Title IV) • The Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act is Part A of Title IV—21st Century Schools authorized under the NoChild Left Behind Act of 2001. • The No Child Left Behind Act substantially revised the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA) in a manner designed to provide all of America’s school children with the opportunity to achieve academic success.

3. Program Overview • The purpose of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) Program is to foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports academic achievement. • The SDFSC Program is a federally funded initiative which supports programs that prevent violence in and around schools; that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; that involve parents and communities; and that are coordinated with related federal, state, and community efforts and resources to foster a safe and drug-free learning environment.

4. Program Overview • SDFSC funds may be used for drug prevention and education programs (PreK-12); violence prevention; professional development for drug, alcohol, and violence prevention; implementation of strategies; drug abuse resistance education programs; program evaluations; and conflict resolution programs. • All of these efforts together form a comprehensive plan to promote peaceful resolution to conflict and to reduce the demand for and use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs by school-age children.

5. Goal of the SDFSC Program • The goal of the SDFSC Program is to ensure a comprehensive prevention and intervention program designed to create a safe, healthy, and successful academic learning environment, which will maximize students’ physical and emotional safety, and academic success.

6. Objectives of the SDFSC Program • Decrease rate of incidents related to violence • Decrease the number of students using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs • Increase student achievement and participation in extracurricular activities and organizations • Increase parent and community participation

7. Principles of Effectiveness • Provides the framework to assist states and local entities in designing, implementing, and evaluating high quality programs and achieving measurable results.

8. Principles of Effectiveness Must be based on: • An assessment of objective data regarding the incidence of violence and illegal drugs in both elementary and secondary schools, as well as the communities to be served • An established set of performance measures aimed at ensuring that schools and communities to be served have a safe, orderly, and drug-free learning environment.

9. Principles of Effectiveness • Scientifically based research demonstrating that the program to be used will reduce violence and illegal drug use • Analysis of data reasonably available at the time of the prevalence of risk factors including: • High or increasing rates of reported cases of child abuse and domestic violence; • Protective factors, buffers, assets; or • Other variables identified through scientifically based research that occur in schools and communities

10. Message and Materials • The program must convey a clear and consistent message that illegal use of drugs and acts of violence are wrong and harmful.

11. Advisory Council • As a part of the requirements from the Alabama State Department of Education in regards to each school system’s implementation of their SDFSC program, an advisory council is to be established. • This committee, which is comprised of a representative group of persons, has several different purposes.

12. Advisory Council Members’ Responsibilities • To assist with the development of the SDFSC application; • To assist in the dissemination of information regarding the Baldwin County Public School System’s drug and violence prevention programs; • To advise the Baldwin County Public School System on the coordination of SDFSC activities with other related programs and on the administration of SDFSC programs, projects, and activities; and • To review and evaluate the SDFSC goals and objectives in order to make recommendations to improve drug and violence prevention programs.

13. Advisory Council Members 2010-2011 • Mrs. Edith Atkinson, BMIS Teacher • Mrs. Wanda Fox-Pierre, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordinator, Department of Mental Health • Deputy Jeff Spaller, School Resource Officer, Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office • Mrs. Kaye Dunn, Nurse Supervisor, Baldwin County Health Department • Mr. Bill Ford, Director, Juvenile Detention Center • Mrs. Janice Hendrickson, Baldwin Youth Services • Mrs. Sonnie Coleman, RBDH Teacher

14. Advisory Council Members 2010-2011 • Dr. Joyce Woodburn, Secondary Coordinator • Mrs. Golden Gray, BMMS Teacher • Mrs. Pam Magee, Federal Programs Coordinator • Mrs. Paula Watkins, Community Volunteer • Mrs. Teresa Hunter, DPM Counselor • Mr. Richard Zitnik, Non-Public School Representative • Mrs. Ashley Milner, Parent Representative

15. Pride Surveys • Baldwin County Public Schools must comply with the No Child Left Behind legislation requiring an anonymous student survey about alcohol and drug use and violence. • The survey information assists the school system in assessing our success or failure to convince students of the health and safety value of not using alcohol or illegal drugs. • The Pride Survey is the anonymous survey that has been chosen to assist us in gathering this required information.

16. Pride Surveys • The Pride Survey provides information on the incidence and prevalence, age of onset, perception of health risk, and perception of social disapproval of drug use and violence by youth. • Results of the Pride Survey from the past five school years are available on the school system website (www.bcbe.org) under Instructional Support, School Counseling/Intervention.