Safe and DrugFree

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
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2001-2002 A Year In Review
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SDFSC Annual State Conference February 10,
2003 Karyn Gukeisen State Coordinator-SDFSC Texas
Education Agency
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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2001-2002 SDFSC Annual Evaluation and
  2002 Texas Schools Survey
• NCLB Updates
• Private School Participation
• Some Things Never Change
• New Data Collection Requirements
• Resources and Grant Winners

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2001-02 SDFSC Annual Evaluation and
  2002 Texas Schools Survey

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2001-2002 SDFSC Annual Evaluation Results!!!
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Texas Incidents on School Property SDFSC Annual
Evaluation Report 1999-00
2000-01 2001-02 Elementary 157,791
190,752 179,537 MS/JH 477,609
589,724 590,145 High School 478,240
585,422 567,482
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Texas Weapons-related Incidents SDFSC Annual
Evaluation Report 1999-00
2000-01 2001-02 Elementary
787 592 350 MS/JH
1,224 1,535 1,291 High School
1,103 1,691 3,494
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Victims SDFSC Annual Evaluation
Report Elementary
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 Students 7,284
5,940 7,665 Non-Students
598 679 622 Non-School
245 262 95 Unknown
3,844 3,125 3,351 The recipient of
a criminal act, usually used in relation to
personal crimes. (USDE)
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Victims SDFSC Annual Evaluation
Report Middle/Jr. High
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 Students 15,102
19,621 11,370 Non-Students 1,924
1,517 2,806 Non-School 628
595 257 Unknown 10,689 10,553
17,039
The recipient of a criminal act, usually used in
relation to personal crimes. (USDE)
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Victims SDFSC Annual Evaluation Report High
School 1999-00 2000-01
2001-02 Students 13,995 12,421
10,074 Non-Students 1,545 1,421
1,152 Non-School 350 595
257 Unknown 9,714 7,871 13,987
The recipient of a criminal act, usually used in
relation to personal crimes. (USDE)
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Offenders SDFSC Annual Evaluation Report
Elementary 1999-00 2000-01
2001-02 Students 73,991 100,158
96,728 Non-Students 48 99
646 Unknown 18 18
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An individual, whether student or not, involved
in committing an incident of prohibited behavior.
There may be more than one offender involved in
any single incident. (USDE)
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Offenders SDFSC Annual Evaluation
Report Middle/Jr. High 1999-00
2000-01 2001-02 Students 211,180
285,507 269,727 Non-Students 117
216 1,972 Unknown 13 46
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An individual, whether student or not, involved
in committing an incident of prohibited behavior.
There may be more than one offender involved in
any single incident. (USDE)
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Offenders SDFSC Annual Evaluation Report High
School 1999-00 2000-01
2001-02 Students 201,223 280,534
251,211 Non-Students 196 129
2,289 Unknown 57 349 697
An individual, whether student or not, involved
in committing an incident of prohibited behavior.
There may be more than one offender involved in
any single incident. (USDE)
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Comparison of Texas Gun-Free Schools Act
DataTotal Expulsions 1997-98 to 2001-02
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Texas School Survey http//www.tcada.state.tx.us/

From the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse
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Alcohol Use by Texas Secondary Students 1990-2002
Texas School Survey-2000
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Alcohol Use by Texas Elementary Students Grades
4-6
Texas School Survey-2000
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Marijuana Use by Texas Secondary
Students 1990-2002
Texas School Survey-2000
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Marijuana Use by Texas Elementary Students Grades
4-6
Texas School Survey-2000
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Tobacco Use by Texas Secondary Students 1990-2000
Texas School Survey-2000
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Tobacco Use by Texas Elementary Students Grades
4-6
Texas School Survey-2000
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Inhalant Use by Texas Secondary Students 1990-2002
Texas School Survey-2000
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Inhalant Use by Texas Elementary Students Grades
4-6
Texas School Survey-2000
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Cocaine/Crack Use by Texas Secondary
Students 1990-2002
Texas School Survey-2000
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Ecstacy Use by Texas Secondary Students 1990-2002
Texas School Survey-2000
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Steroid Use by Texas Secondary Students 1990-2000
Texas School Survey-2000
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Age of First UseTexas Secondary Students 2000
Texas School Survey-2000
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Age of First UseTexas Secondary Students 2000
Texas School Survey-2000
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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2000-01 SDFSC Annual Evaluation
• NCLB Updates

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Here Are Some of the Facts To Know
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FY 2002 Appropriation Safe and Drug-Free Schools
and Communities SDFSC State Grants 439,250,00
0 (439,250,0002000) National
Programs 205,000,000 (Includes the Safe
Schools, Healthy Students Initiative and the
Middle School Coordinators Grants) Total
644,250,000
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FY 2002 Appropriation Safe and Drug-Free Schools
and Communities Texas Allocation 36,534,992 (incr
ease of 1,537,891) Texas Education
Agency 29,227,994 (Increase of
1,230,314) Governors Office 7,306,998
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SDFSC Entitlements93 to LEAs

• NCLB
• 40 based on enrollment
• 60 based on prior year Title I, Part A, and

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SDFSC Entitlements93 to LEAs

• NCLB
• No greatest need entitlement

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New Fiscal Requirements

• Administrative Costs No more than 2 of the
  current year entitlement

Administrative costs include both direct
administrative costs and indirect costs. Indirect
administrative costs include costs associated
with human resources, budgeting, accounting,
purchasing, and other fiscal activities such as
auditing.
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New Fiscal Requirements
Salaries and benefits of staff that supervise
program staff are part of the LEAs
direct administrative costs. 34 CFR 80.3 states
administrative requirements mean those matters
common to grants in general, such as financial
management, kinds and frequency of reports,
and retention of records.
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New Fiscal Requirements
These are distinguished from programmatic
requirements, which concern matters that can be
treated only on a program-by-program or
grant-by-grant basis, such as kinds of activities
that can be supported by grants under a
particular Administration is administering
programs and activities designed to enhance
the effective and coordinated use of program
funds such as
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New Fiscal Requirements
Coordination of programs with other federal and
non-federal programs Administration of
programs Dissemination of information
regarding model programs and practices
Technical assistance and Training personnel
engaged in audit and other monitoring
activities. Title IX, Part B, Section 9201
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New Fiscal Requirements

• Supplement, Not Supplant Funds used for SDFSC
  programs and activities will be used to
  supplement State, local and other non-Federal
  funds, and in no case supplant such funds

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New Fiscal Requirements

• Security Costs
• Expanded to maximum of 40 of LEA grant, but
  only if hiring and training of security personnel
  is included
• - cap remains at 20 for security hardware,
  reporting crimes, school safety planning, etc.

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Consultation

• No SDFSC Advisory Committee for LEAs by name
  however, LEAs must conduct on-going consultation
  with people representing the following groups

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Consultation

• State and local government representatives
• Representatives of schools to be served
  (including private schools)
• Teachers and other staff
• Parents
• Students
• Community-based organizations

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Consultation

• Others with relevant and demonstrated expertise
  in drug and violence prevention activities such
  as
• Medical
• Mental health
• Law enforcement

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Areas Of On-Going Consultation

• Developing and designing a program
• Assessing or evaluating the violence and illegal
  drug use in schools
• Establishing a set of performance measures
• Ensuring programs and activities are
  scientifically based

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Areas Of On-Going Consultation

• Ensuring programs or activities are based on an
  analysis of the prevalence of risk factors,
  protective factors, or other variables
• Ensuring consultation and input from parents in
  the development of SAS and administration of the
  programs and activities

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Areas Of On-Going Consultation

• Designing and developing programs and activities
  including efforts to meet the Principles of
  Effectiveness.

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Principles Of Effectiveness

• 5

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1. Assessment

• Based on an assessment of objective data
  regarding the incidence of violence and illegal
  drug use in the schools and communities to be
  served

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Assessment

• This assessment must include an objective
  analysis of the current conditions and
  consequences regarding violence and illegal drug
  use that is based on ongoing local assessment or
  evaluation activities

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Assessment

• Analysis of the conditions and consequences must
  include delinquency and serious discipline
  problems among students who attend such schools
  (including private school students who
  participate in the drug and violence prevention
  program).

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Examples

• PEIMS 425 Record data www.tea.state.tx.us/safe.
  Click on Annual DAEP Evaluation and Discipline
  Data Reports. Then click on Data Reports
• SDFSC Evaluation results
• Gun Free Schools Report data
• Local survey data and
• Analysis of school and community risk and
  protective factors.

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2. Performance Measures

• Based on performance measures aimed at ensuring
  that these schools and communities have a safe,
  orderly, and drug-free learning environment

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Reminder!

• TEA will be releasing its State Performance
  Measures in the Spring. You may want to align
  your performance measures to these State
  measures.

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3. Scientifically-Based Research

• Grounded in scientifically based research that
  provides evidence that the program to be used
  will reduce violence and illegal drug use

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Definition of Scientifically Based Research

• Definition of Scientifically Based Research
  can be found
• Title IX General Provisions, Section 9101 of
  NCLB (www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb)

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Definition of Scientifically Based Research

• Page 12 (Q14) of the draft Guidance for SDFSC
  from the USDE (www.tea.state.tx.us/nclb. Click
  on USDE Guidance.)
• Appendix 14 of the Instructions for completing
  the SAS-A200-03 www.tea.state.tx.us/student.suppor
  t. Click on Student Support Programs. Then
  click on SAS Forms. Scroll down until you find
  Appendix 14.

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Examples of Model Programs
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• USDE Expert Panel Results
• Promising Programs
• Thirty-three Promising Programs
• Two from Texas
• Exemplary Programs
• Nine Programs
• Exemplary Promising Safe, Disciplined, and
  Drug-Free Schools Programs 2001
• 1-877-433-7827
• http//www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/expert_panel/drug-
  free.
• html

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Example of Model Programs

• SAMHSA Model Programs Model Prevention Programs
  Supporting Academic Achievement at
  http//modelprograms.samhsa.gov

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4. Prevalence of Risk Factors, Protective
Factors, Buffers, Assets, or Other Variables

• Based on an analysis (of data reasonably
  available at the time) of the prevalence of
• Risk factors, including high or increasing rates
  of reported cases of child abuse and domestic
  violence

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Prevalence of Risk Factors, Protective Factors,
Buffers, Assets, or Other Variables

• Protective factors, buffers, assets
• Or other factors identified through
  scientifically based research that occur in
  schools and communities.

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Resources on Child Abuse and Family Violence
Statistics

• Child abuse statistics per county can be found
  at www.tdprs.state.tx.us/Child_Protection/About_C
  hild_Protective_Services/childfacts.asp
• Domestic and family violence statistics can be
  found in The Texas Crime Report located at
  www.txdps.state.tx.us. Click on General
  Information, and then Crime Statistics.

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Risk and Protective Factors

• Risk factors are attitudes behaviors, beliefs,
  situations, or actions that may put a group,
  organization, individual, or community at risk
  for alcohol and drug problems.

• Protective factors are attitudes, behaviors,
  beliefs, situations, or actions that build
  resilience in a group, organization, individual,
  or community.

2000 Annual Summary Effective Prevention
Principles and Programs. Center for Substance
Abuse Prevention.
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5. Parents

• Include meaningful and ongoing consultation with
  and input from parents in the development of the
  application and administration of the program or
  activity.

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New Requirement ForAnnual SDFSC
Evaluation2002-03

• Includes a description of how parents were
  informed of, and participated in, violence and
  drug prevention efforts.

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Principles of Effectiveness Reminder!!!!

• Evaluated periodically against locally selected
  performance measures and modified over time
  (based on the evaluation) to refine, improve, and
  strengthen the program
• Shall be made available to the pubic upon request.

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Requirements in SAS due to NCLB
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Requirements InSAS

• LEAs SDFSC services must be targeted to schools
  and students with the greatest need.
• LEAs must indicate data used to determine
  greatest need.

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Greatest Need Requirement Reminder!

• LEA must provide a comprehensive drug and
  violence prevention program
• LEA does not need to allocate more or all of the
  SDFSC funds to campuses that are determined to be
  in greatest need of prevention services
• LEA must document that they have determined which
  campuses have the greatest need of prevention
  services (through a needs assessment), and that
  those needs are being addressed.

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Requirements InSAS

• LEAs must indicate the percentage of
  administrative costs budgeted for Title IV, SDFSC.

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Requirements InSAS

• LEAs must indicate the percentage of security
  costs budgeted for hiring and training security
  personnel
• LEAs will continue to indicate the percentage of
  security costs budgeted for security
  equipment/hardware, reporting criminal offenses,
  developing security plans, and supporting safe
  zones of passage.

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2000-01 SDFSC Annual Evaluation
• NCLB Updates
• Private Schools

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Private School Participation

• LEAs shall consult with private school officials
  during the design and development of their SDFSC
  programs on issues such as

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Private School Participation

• How the students needs will be identified
• What services will be offered
• How, where, and by whom the services will be
  provided
• How the services will be assessed and how the
  results of the assessment will be used to improve
  those services

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Private School Participation

• The size and scope of the equitable services to
  be provided to the eligible private school
  children, teachers, and other educational
  personnel and the amount of funds available for
  those services and

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Private School Participation

• How and when the LEA or SSA will make decisions
  about the delivery of services, including a
  thorough consideration and analysis of the views
  of the private school officials on the provision
  of contract services through potential
  third-party providers.

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Facilities for the Neglected and Delinquent

• LEAs may provide Title IV, SDFSC services to
  neglected and delinquent facilities for those
  students attending the LEA
• If those students are included in the
  comprehensive needs assessment of the district.

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2000-01 SDFSC Annual Evaluation
• NCLB Updates
• Private Schools
• Some Things Never Change

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Some Things Never Change

• Intent and purpose of Title IV SDFSC
• Comprehensive program
• Consultation with required stakeholders
• Cannot roll forward more than 25 of current year
  entitlement

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2000-01 SDFSC Annual Evaluation
• NCLB Updates
• Private Schools
• Some Things Never Change
• New Data Collection Requirements

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Evaluated Periodically

• Evaluated periodically against locally selected
  performance measures and modified over time
  (based on the evaluation) to refine, improve, and
  strengthen the program
• Shall be made available to the pubic upon request.

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Prevalence of Risk Factors, Protective Factors,
Buffers, Assets, or Other Variables

• Analysis of the prevalence of risk factors,
  protective factors, buffers, assets, or other
  variables, identified through scientifically
  based research, that exist in the schools and
  communities in the State

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New Requirement ForAnnual SDFSC
Evaluation2002-03

• Includes a description of how parents were
  informed of, and participated in, violence and
  drug prevention efforts.

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New Evaluation Requirements at the State
Level-UMIRS

• Truancy RatesTo be collected in PEIMS 425 Report
  beginning in SY2003-2004
• Types of curricula, programs and services
  provided by the Governors Office, TEA, ESCs and
  LEAs and
• Age of onset, perception of health risk and
  social disapproval of drug use and violence by
  youth in schools and communities.

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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities

• Results of 2000-01 SDFSC Annual Evaluation
• NCLB Updates
• Private Schools
• Some Things Never Change
• New Data Collection Requirements
• Resources and Grant Winners

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Publications

• What You Need To Know About Drug Testing In
  Schools (ONDCP) at www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/p
  df/drug_testing.pdf
• Threat Assessment in Schools A Guide to
  Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating
  Safe School Climates at www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/S
  DFS/threatassessmentguide.pdf

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Publications

• Wide Scope, Questionable Quality Three Reports
  From The Study On School Violence Prevention
  www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/publications.html
• Indicators Of School Crime And Safety
  www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/publications.html
• NCLB Desktop Reference www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/re
  ference.pdf
• NCLB Policy Guidance (p. 244) www.tea.state.tx.us/
  nclb Click on Policy Guidance Documents

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Informational Websites

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA) www.samhsa.gov
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
  www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html
• United States Department of Education
  www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/index.html

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Texas Grant Award Recipients Carol M. White
Physical Education

• Round Rock ISD
• Mesquite ISD
• Goodrich ISD
• Katy ISD
• Houston ISD
• Fort Worth ISD

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Texas Grant Award Recipients SDFS Mentoring
Program

• Big Brother/Big Sisters Arlington
• Communities In Schools Dallas
• Fort Worth ISD
• Families Under Urban and Social Attack Houston
• I Have a Dream-Houston

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Texas Grant Award Recipients National
Coordinator Program

• Alief ISD

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Texas Grant Award Recipients Safe
Schools/Healthy Students

• Kenedy ISD
• Hays Consolidated ISD

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Texas Grant Award Recipients Grants to Reduce
Alcohol Abuse

• Karnes City ISD
• Fort Bend ISD
• New Braunfels ISD

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