Seattle Public Schools | Safe Schools Healthy Schools

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.

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