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.
