State Commitments
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Partnership • Review of Section 2.3 of RFA (p. 20) Local Education Agency and Local Community Required Activities
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application • Focus on – Improving collaboration across child, youth and family serving systems – Improving access to and availability of evidencebased programs that prevent violence and promote positive child and youth development
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application Selection criteria for local LEAs and Local Communities • Selection criteria – Demonstrated readiness and willingness to implement and integrated / comprehensive plan SoC + PBIS = SS-HS
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application Selection criteria for local LEAs and Local Communities
Local Commitments 1. Staffing – Project Manager • Liaison with the SS-HS Project Staff and the State Management Team • Experience in: – Working between local service systems – Expertise in the fields of education, mental health, substance abuse, or juvenile justice.
To be identified within first 3 months of the award
Local Commitments 2. Identify a core management team – Including • Education, Law Enforcement, Behavioral Health, Juvenile Justice – Should also include: • Early childhood agency & community stakeholders (e.g. faith based organizations, parents, family, advocates and youth) • Reflective of the diversity of To be identified within 3 the community months of the award
Local Commitments 3. Develop a Memorandum of Understanding – Between required partners and community stakeholders • Outlines how partners will – work with state partners in completing environmental scan & needs assessment – Development of the state comprehensive plan
To be developed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 4. Support the state in conducting a community-level needs assessment – Identifying issues and needs • Risk factors • Protective factors of students, families and communities – Collect and provide data needed by the state To be completed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 5. Support the state in conducting an environmental scan – Available resources – Systems and programs – Local funding streams
To be completed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 6. Collaborate with state to develop a process for selecting EBP – Responsive to community’s risk and protective factors – Culturally and linguistically appropriate • Populations • Sub-populations
– Local funding streams To be completed within 7 months of the award
Local Commitments 7. Collaborate with state to develop SS-HS comprehensive plan
To be completed within 8 months of the award
Local Commitments 8. Implement the comprehensive plan’s EBP and strategies – To prevent • Violence and violent behavior • Bullying • Mental and substance abuse disorders
Implementation to begin no later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 8. Implement the comprehensive plan’s EBP and strategies – To promote • • • • •
Youth development Positive school-climate School & classroom-wide behavioral interventions Truancy reduction Supportive school discipline Implementation to begin no later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 9. Collect and report all data – Required by the state – Necessary for local, ongoing quality improvement and sustainability
Baseline data must be collected not later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 10. Participate in the national multi-site evaluation – Train on • • • •
MSE protocols Data collection Management and reporting procedures Common data collection tools and measures
– Collect and report data – Participate in interviews and site evaluations
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application • Focus on – Improving collaboration across child, youth and family serving systems – Improving access to and availability of evidencebased programs that prevent violence and promote positive child and youth development
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application Selection criteria for local LEAs and Local Communities • Selection criteria – Demonstrated readiness and willingness to implement and integrated / comprehensive plan SoC + PBIS = SS-HS
Pennsylvania Safe Schools - Healthy Students Application Selection criteria for local LEAs and Local Communities
Local Commitments 1. Staffing – Project Manager • Liaison with the SS-HS Project Staff and the State Management Team • Experience in: – Working between local service systems – Expertise in the fields of education, mental health, substance abuse, or juvenile justice.
To be identified within first 3 months of the award
Local Commitments 2. Identify a core management team – Including • Education, Law Enforcement, Behavioral Health, Juvenile Justice – Should also include: • Early childhood agency & community stakeholders (e.g. faith based organizations, parents, family, advocates and youth) • Reflective of the diversity of To be identified within 3 the community months of the award
Local Commitments 3. Develop a Memorandum of Understanding – Between required partners and community stakeholders • Outlines how partners will – work with state partners in completing environmental scan & needs assessment – Development of the state comprehensive plan
To be developed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 4. Support the state in conducting a community-level needs assessment – Identifying issues and needs • Risk factors • Protective factors of students, families and communities – Collect and provide data needed by the state To be completed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 5. Support the state in conducting an environmental scan – Available resources – Systems and programs – Local funding streams
To be completed within 5 months of the award
Local Commitments 6. Collaborate with state to develop a process for selecting EBP – Responsive to community’s risk and protective factors – Culturally and linguistically appropriate • Populations • Sub-populations
– Local funding streams To be completed within 7 months of the award
Local Commitments 7. Collaborate with state to develop SS-HS comprehensive plan
To be completed within 8 months of the award
Local Commitments 8. Implement the comprehensive plan’s EBP and strategies – To prevent • Violence and violent behavior • Bullying • Mental and substance abuse disorders
Implementation to begin no later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 8. Implement the comprehensive plan’s EBP and strategies – To promote • • • • •
Youth development Positive school-climate School & classroom-wide behavioral interventions Truancy reduction Supportive school discipline Implementation to begin no later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 9. Collect and report all data – Required by the state – Necessary for local, ongoing quality improvement and sustainability
Baseline data must be collected not later than 11 months after the award
Local Commitments 10. Participate in the national multi-site evaluation – Train on • • • •
MSE protocols Data collection Management and reporting procedures Common data collection tools and measures
– Collect and report data – Participate in interviews and site evaluations
