Congratulations to Perry Central Community School Corporation!

2009 New Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Grants

More than $32.8 million in grants have been awarded to 18 states and the District of Columbia as part of a joint effort by the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice to support schools in creating safer and healthier learning environments. Following is a list of grantees and individual abstracts for the awarded programs.

Since 1999 the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice have collaboratively funded and supported the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative. The SS/HS Initiative is a discretionary grant to implement a coordinated SS/HS comprehensive plan of activities, curricula, programs, and services that focus on creating safe school environments, promoting healthy childhood development, and preventing youth violence and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use, henceforth referred to as the SS/HS comprehensive plan. An eligible applicant is a local educational agency (LEA) or a consortium of LEAs that partner with their local public mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies to develop and submit a community-specific SS/HS comprehensive plan that addresses the following five elements:

• Element One: Safe School Environments and Violence Prevention Activities.
• Element Two: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention Activities.
• Element Three: Student Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Supports.
• Element Four: Mental Health Services.
• Element Five: Early Childhood Social and Emotional Learning Programs.

The grantee’s SS/HS comprehensive plan is based on community-specific data that identifies needs and gaps related to the five SS/HS elements. The plan’s goals, objectives, activities, curricula, programs, services and staff correspond to the community-specific data, thus no two SS/HS projects are the same.

FY Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) 2009 Grantees

Perry Central Community School Corporation
Leopold, IN
Mary F. Roberson, Superintendent
$729,132

Perry Central Community School Corporation (PCCSC) was selected to receive a 2009 SS/HS grant award. The PCCSC SS/HS project is a consortium which includes the neighboring Tell City-Troy Township School Corporation. Both are located in Perry County in rural, southern Indiana. The PCCSC SS/HS project will serve nearly 3,000 students from these two districts in preschool through grade twelve and includes children served by community preschools and child care centers.

Some of the proposed activities, curricula, programs and services include: Too Good for Violence, Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies, Too Good for Drugs, school-based mental health services, Family Outreach Coordinator, and The Incredible Years. Supporting the PCCSC project are Indiana State Police, Perry County Sheriff’s Department, Tell City Police Department, Southern Hills Counseling Center, and Perry Circuit Court.

Source:  http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpsafeschools/fy2009awards.html