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SHARE:
Safe Healthy Attitudes Require Education
Investing in Our Children Today
for Our Community Tomorrow
Presented to:
SHARE Advisory Committee
October 26, 2009
Safe Schools / Healthy Students
Federal Grant
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$5.6 million to provide services over four years
Nine school districts in Broome County
Services will begin in September 2010
Preliminary activities and some services will
begin in spring 2010 to prepare for full
implementation in September
• Interdisciplinary Response to Intervention (IRTI)
Model
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About the National SS/HS Initiative
• A unique collaboration among the U.S.
Departments of Education, Health and Human
Services, and Justice.
• Created in 1999 in response to rising concerns
about youth violence and school safety.
• Empowers local communities to create
coordinated, comprehensive programs that
recognize the complexity of youth violence.
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Become a Local Partner in a
National Success Story…
…And Let’s Make the Investment
Together
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Goals of the SHARE Initiative
• 5 areas of focus:
– Safe school environments and violence prevention
– Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention
– Student behavioral, social, and emotional supports
– Mental health service
– Early childhood social and emotional learning
programs
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Goal 1
• Provide a safe school environment for all
students.
• Increase attendance
• Reduce incidence of physical altercations on
school property
• Reduce the number of students involved in
intimidation, harassment, and bullying
• Reduce the number of suspensions
• Policy review and revision of school safety
plans.
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Goal 2
• Decrease the rate at which our youth are using
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
• Decrease alcohol and marijuana use
• Increase parental awareness of the dangers of
alcohol and drug use among teens.
• Review and update comprehensive ATOD policy
and procedures guide.
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Goal 3
• Provide support for student behavioral, social,
and emotional growth.
• Increase the number of students who do not favor
anti-social and rebellious behavior
• Decrease the number of students who believe that
society favors anti-social behavior
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Goal 4
• Increase access to mental health services to our
students and/or their families.
• Increase the number of students receiving schoolbased mental health services
• Increase the number of students referred to and
receiving community based mental health services
• Target students who show signs of depression,
suicidal ideation, and/or who intentionally hurt
themselves
• Develop district wide policy and procedures
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Goal 5
• Increase school readiness through family
participation in early childhood intervention
programs.
• Increase the ability of parents to support early
childhood education
• Increase the performance of pre-k aged children in
the areas of social/emotional development,
language development, and literacy
• Develop and utilize common comprehensive
tools for assessing early school readiness
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Core Service Team
• BOCES
– Project Director, general oversight, coordination with
Federal Grant Officer
• Binghamton University
– Program Coordinator, direct service provision to youth
and families, professional development with school
staff, and project evaluation
• Lourdes Hospital Youth Services
– Provision of evidenced-based interventions for
targeted youth
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The Model:
Interdisciplinary Response to Intervention
• Binghamton University Center for Best Practices
in Full-Service Community Schools
• Department of Social Work
• School of Education
• Decker School of Nursing
• Lourdes Hospital Youth Services – Evidenced
Based Services
• Collaborative referrals within the IRTI model
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Three Tiered Approach
• Tier 1: Universal Supports
– School-based services to all students in partnering
districts, includes screening for those with additional
needs; Professional development of school personnel
• Tier 2: Targeted Intervention
– Small group counseling and activities for identified
youth and their families; school and community based
• Tier 3: Intensive Intervention
– Individualized, often home-based, therapy and
intervention
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Role of the Core Service Team
• Broome-Tioga BOCES
– Provide overall project leadership and management necessary to
support the achievement of program goals and objectives.
– Convene and facilitate committee meetings.
– Facilitate financial management of the project.
– Develop, maintain, and submit all necessary fiscal records and reports.
– Assist in professional development, district-wide policy development,
and support the implementation of school-based social work program.
– Assist the project evaluator with the preliminary analysis of data relating
to program services, activities, and programs.
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Role of the Core Service Team
• Binghamton University
– Professional Development of school personnel
– Individual, Group, and Family Counseling
– Health Screenings
– Youth Mentoring
– Project Evaluation
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Role of the Core Service Team
Lourdes Youth Services
• Evidence based programs/services including:
– Families and School Together (FAST)
– Parents and Children Together (PACT)
– Strengthening Families
– MH-JJ Program
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Community Partners & Stakeholders
• Along with the Core Service Team, the project
relies on the collaborative partnership of our
Community Partners and Community
Stakeholders
• Stakeholders are those who have a specific vested
interest in outcomes
• Partners assist in service provision to augment
treatment and provide services not covered by the
core services team
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Why Partnership Makes Sense
• Link security with healthy childhood
development.
• Take a school-based public health approach.
• Provide comprehensive, coordinated services
that are developmentally appropriate.
• Encourage school/law enforcement/mental
health partnerships.
• Implement science-based programs with
demonstrated outcomes.
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Community Stakeholders
• Broome County Probation Department
• Delivery and coordination of activities relative to reducing and
mitigating juvenile crime and delinquency
• Provide data on youth involved in the juvenile justice system
• Participation in staff training
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Community Stakeholders
• Broome County Sheriffs Department
• Participate in school safety audits and development of district
safety plans
• Participate in staff training
• Provide data on youth incarceration and violent behavior, as well
as youth alcohol and drug arrests and convictions
• Coordinate Student Resource Officer programs in participating
school districts.
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Community Stakeholders & Partners
• Broome County Department of Mental Health
• Provide community based counseling services for mental health
and chemical dependency for children and families
• Assist with the development of mental health policies and
procedures for referral and information sharing
• Provide data on youth who are receiving mental health treatment
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Community Partners
• Participating School Districts
– Participate in the development of district-wide policy
– Support professional development trainings
– Support the implementation of school-based social work
program
– Provide student data
– Coordinate pre-k services with Lourdes and school-based social
work initiatives.
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Community Partners
• Local mental health and social service providers
• Participate in coordinated referrals for services
beyond those which can be provided by the Core
Services Team or other Community Partners
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Advisory Committee and
Core Management Team
• Advisory Committee: Supervisory committee established
to monitor the progress, integrity, and goals of the grant.
– This committee will meet quarterly.
• Core Management Team: Oversees the management
and operations of the project, supports the project with
direct program services and coordination of activities,
and provides community leadership and communication
between partners and with other involved agencies and
organizations.
– This team will meet monthly.
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Our Successes to Date
• Key staff hired, space secured for project staff at
the Johnson City Learning Center
• Final Budget Approved by the USDOE
• Logic Model Approved by USDOE
• Memorandum of Agreement Approved by
USDOE
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Looking Down the Road
Questions/Comments from the Committee
Members.
Please take a couple minutes to write down two
questions, comments, or concerns on the index
cards provided.
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A National Success Story
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For more information:
Jessica Villecco-Frederick
Johnson City Learning Center
500 Main St.
Johnson City, NY
607-766-3755
607-763-3273
[email protected]
Lisa Blitz
Binghamton University
67 Washington Street
Binghamton, NY
607-777-9169
[email protected]
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