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Safe Schools/Healthy Students Grant
Dr. Phedra Brantley, Project Director, x4867
Role
The mission of Project ACT SAFE (Active Community Teaming for Safe Academic and Family Environments) project is to implement a sustainable, integrated, comprehensive, community-wide plan to create safe and drug-free schools and promote pro-social skills and healthy childhood development in youth in collaboration with the Monroe Police Department, Office of Youth Services, the Monroe Mental Health Center, and the ACT SAFE community action group composed of child and family serving entities in the City of Monroe and Ouachita Parish.
Program Goals Goal One:
| Safe school environments and violence prevention activities will provide for safe and healthy havens for student progression.
| Goal Two:
| Alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) activities will be reduced through SAMHSA approved evidence-based programs (Positive Action and Too Good For Drugs/Violence).
| | Goal Three: | Students will have increased access to behavioral, social, and emotional supports.
| Goal Four:
| Students will have access to high quality mental health services through the Center for Children and Families.
| Goal Five:
| Early childhood social and emotional learning programs will increase school readiness for Pre-K children.
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Program Services
- High-Quality Mental Health Services
- Dropout Prevention
- Prevention of Truancy
- Mentoring
- After-School and Extended-Year Programs
- Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention Activities
- Violence Prevention Activities
- Early Childhood and Emotional Learning Programs
- Student and Parent Organizations
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