CTC Progress Report

School CTC Implementation Plans

As of September, 2004, twenty-two school-based teams completed specific Implementation Plans to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors among their students. Each of these schools received funding to implement these plan during the 2003-04 school year. Of the twenty-six Seattle secondary schools that began this project, four--Roosevelt HS, Sealth HS, Meany MS, and Washington MS--withdrew from the process last year. The "School Tested Effective Implementation Program Summary" shows what happened in these schools.

Tested Effective Programs

Communities That Care emphasizes the use of tested effective programs and strategies that are proven to increase protective factors and decrease risk factors. The Safe Schools Healthy Students grant provides funding for schools to implement such programs that school teams have identified through the CTC planning process. The Tested Effective Programs in School CTC Plans table shows the twelve tested effective programs and strategies being implemented. In many cases, the program involves extensive training.

Seven schools are implementing the Olweus bullying-prevention program. Click here to see the data that has come from that program.

Project Evaluation

The Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington is the local evaluator for this project. Their interim Progress Report on Communities That Care in Seattle Schools was released in December, 2003.

Next Steps

As the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant comes to an end, Seattle Public Schools' Communities That Care office is winding down. Participating schools will continue prevention planning and implementation of tested effective programs as possible.