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The Drug Prevention and School Safety Coordinator initiative is one of several programs designed to improve youth outcomes. There are many other national and state initiatives with complementary goals and resources that can supplement your current funding. Before seeking funding from one of these programs, contact your local school district and education agency, as well as your state education and health agencies, to determine if these funds are already present in your community. If they are, find out how they are being utilized and how they might be coordinated with your school's prevention initiative.

• Coordinated School Health Programs
  http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/cshpdef.htm

  In 1992, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a new initiative to support coordinated school health programs (CSHPs) to reduce chronic disease risk factors, including poor eating habits, physical inactivity, and tobacco use. CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health currently provides CSHP funding to state education and health agencies in 20 states. When visiting the CSHP website, look for the Healthy Youth Funding Database. Formerly known as the Adolescent and School Health Funding Database, this resource contains information on federal, foundation, and state-specific funding sources for school health programs

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• Safe Schools, Healthy Students Initiative
  www.sshsac.org/

  This initiative is jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Its purpose is to fund the implementation and enhancement of comprehensive, community-wide strategies for creating safe and drug-free schools and promoting healthy childhood development. Nearly $100 million in awards includes up to $3 million for local education agencies (LEAs) in urban areas, up to $2 million for LEAs in suburban areas, and up to $1 million for LEAs in rural areas and tribal school districts.

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers
  www.ed.gov/programs/21stcclc/index.html

  The focus of this program, authorized under Title X, Part I, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is to enable schools to stay open longer and provide expanded educational and enrichment opportunities for participating children in a safe, drug-free, and supervised environment. Nearly $206 million in new 21st Century Community Learning Center grants was awarded in June 2001, bringing the total number of 21st Century Community Learning Centers grants awarded to 1,587. These grants support 6,800 centers and serve about 1.2 million children and 400,000 adults. Eligible applicants are rural and inner-city school districts working in partnership with community-based organizations.

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act/Improving America's Schools Act of 1994
  http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/toc.html

  Title I: Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards

  This title is designed to enable schools to equip students to meet state content and performance standards. Strategies to accomplish this objective include the following:

  • Providing schoolwide programs or additional services that increase the amount and quality of instructional time

  • Providing staff with opportunities for professional development

  • Offering parents meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education

  • Distributing resources to areas and schools where needs are greatest

  • Providing greater decision-making authority and flexibility to schools and teachers, improving accountability--as well as teaching and learning--by using state assessment systems

  • Coordinating services under this title with one another and with other educational, health, and social service programs

  Title IV: Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
  This title was designed to support programs to meet the seventh National Education Goal by preventing violence in and around schools and by strengthening programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, and involve parents. It provides federal assistance to states for grants to or contracts with educational agencies, community-based organizations, other public and private nonprofit agencies, and institutions of higher education. These agencies and institutions should work toward improving the quality of local drug and violence prevention activities, as well as provide effective training and technical assistance services to support these activities.

  Title XIII, Part A: Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers
  This program funds 15 grantees that provide comprehensive training and technical assistance services to states, LEAs, schools, Indian tribes, community-based organizations, and other recipients of federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). These grantees help coordinate and integrate the implementation of ESEA and other federal education programs with state and local activities so that they support federal, state, and local efforts to improve teaching and learning. Appropriations of $28 million were made each fiscal year from 1999 to 2001.

• State Tobacco Settlements
  http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/

  In November 1998, the tobacco industry settled the Medicaid lawsuits of 46 states so that the states could recover their tobacco-related health care costs. The industry committed to paying the states approximately $206 billion over the next 25 years. In addition, payments of $5 billion will be made to 14 states to compensate them for potential harm to their tobacco-producing communities. (Four states settled their tobacco lawsuits separately.) Many states have decided to apply these funds to coordinated school health programs, while others are currently determining how to make the best use of this money.

• Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities Program
  http://bphc.hrsa.gov/

  This program was established in 1994 by the Bureau of Primary Health Care to encourage the development of new, comprehensive, full-time school-based primary care programs that serve high-risk children. The program has established a number of collaborative linkages with other government agencies and private organizations. These linkages provide the Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities centers with multiple avenues for technical assistance, which subsequently improves the care they provide.

  Other options for funding school-based health centers include state and local Maternal and Child Health Block Grants, Title XX funding, State General Funds, Preventive Health & Health Services Block Grants, Tobacco Taxes, and Tobacco Settlement Agreements.