Programs & Activities:
Foster safe, healthy, supportive, and drug-free environments that support student academic achievement, including:
- Drug and violence prevention activities and programs that are evidence-based;
- Help prevent bullying and harassment;
- Improve instructional practices for developing relationship-building skills, such as effective communication, and improve safety through the recognition and prevention of coercion, violence, or abuse, including teen and dating violence, stalking, domestic abuse, and sexual violence and harassment;
- Mentoring and school counseling to all students, including children who are at risk of academic failure, dropping out of school, involvement in criminal or delinquent activities, or drug use and abuse;
- Promote the involvement of parents and families in the activity or program.
Professional Development & Training
For school, specialized instructional support personnel, and interested community members related to:
- Drug and violence prevention;
- Suicide prevention;
- Crisis management;
- Human trafficking (defined, for purposes of this subparagraph, as an act or practice described in paragraph (9) or (10) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102);
- School-based violence prevention strategies;
- Drug abuse prevention, including educating children facing substance abuse at home;
- Bullying and harassment prevention.
Personnel
Including school resource officers and/or site resource coordinators who provide a variety of services, such as:
- Establishing partnerships within the community to provide resources and support for schools;
- Ensuring that all service and community partners are aligned with the academic expectations of a community school in order to improve student success; and
- Strengthening relationships between schools and communities.
Equipment
Facilities upgrades and equipment that meet the following definitions:
- “Tangible personal property (including information technology systems) having a useful life of more than one year and a per-unit acquisition cost which equals or exceeds the lesser of the capitalization level established by the non-Federal entity for financial statement purposes, or $5,000.” 2 CFR 200.1.
- Minor remodeling refers to minor alterations in a previously completed building. The term also includes the extension of utility lines, such as water or electricity, from points beyond the confines of the space in which the minor remodeling is undertaken but within the confines of the previously completed building. The term does not include building construction, structural alteration to buildings, building maintenance, or repairs. See 34 CFR §77.1.
- Crisis alert programs/hardware
- Updated locks
- Window and door replacement to include shatterproof window/resistance
- Technology/software to implement safe monitoring and surveillance measures of students, staff, and visitors to the building
- Identification/visitor management
- School facility mapping
- Video monitoring technology
- Entry control
- Intrusion alarm systems
- Evaluation tools for readiness and emergency management for schools
- Two-way communication devices and software designed to directly interface with emergency responder radio systems
- Mass notification telephone systems equipment
- Content filtering and/or services
- Cybersecurity tools and/or services
It is recommended that school safety-related activities are in alignment with school safety plans. The fundamental requirements of Title IV, Part A also apply to these funds, including the supplement, not supplant requirement (ESEA section 4110); the maintenance of effort requirement (ESEA section 8521); and the requirement to provide equitable services to private school students and personnel (ESEA section 8501 et seq.).