OVERVIEW
In October 2001, Seattle Public Schools (SPS) received a
three-year grant as part of a national initiative to reduce school
violence. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SSHS) Initiative
promotes comprehensive, integrated community-wide strategies with
the ultimate goal of fostering school safety and healthy youth
development. With its SSHS grant, SPS will implement the
Communities That Care model and expand existing drug and alcohol
intervention, truancy, security, mental health, and adult education
programs. |
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Additional program
components include partnerships to coordinate policies with the
juvenile justice system, taking steps to reduce disproportionality
in discipline, and supporting effective teen parenting. The SSHS
initiative is funded by the United States Departments of Health
& Human Services, Education, and Justice.
SSHS
grantees are required to develop goals and objects to address six
program areas; Safe School Environment, Alcohol, Drugs, &
Violence, Mental Health, Early Childhood Services, Education
Reform, and Safe School Policies. Click on the links below for more
information about what SPS is doing in each of the six goal
areas.
SSHS
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS
- Channing-Bete Company Inc.
- City of Seattle
- King County Mental Health Chemical Abuse and Dependency
Services Division
- King County – Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
- Public Health – Seattle & King County
- Seattle Police Department
- University of Washington Social Development Research Group
