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-093 Or Report Number 08 01- NW Agenda Section VI -2 SW M(-� Report Date March 7, 2008 the city that works for you Council Meeting Date March 25, 2008 REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION ITEM DESCRIPTION: Approval of Memorandum of Agreement for the Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Connections Grant r1 DEPARTMENT HEAD'S APPROVAL: Robert J. Jacobson, Director of Public Safety CITY MANAGER'S APPROVAL: No comments to supplement this report`"/Comments attached Recommendation: Approval of Memorandum of Agreement for the Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Connections Grant Legislative History: N/A Financial Impact: None Explanation: Since 1999, the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice (the Federal partners) have collaborated on the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative. The SS/HS Initiative is a discretionary grant program that provides communities with Federal funding to implement a coordinated and 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. This plan 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 Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative partners including the four district consortium of (ISD 621, 622, 623 and 624), local and public mental health, local law enforcement, and juvenile justice was chosen to receive $2,142,976 each year for four years through the Federal Safe Schools, Healthy Students Grant. The grant supports an integrated, comprehensive, communitywide, and community -specific plan to address the problems of school violence and alcohol and other drug abuse. Funding will provide students, schools, and families with a network of effective services, supports, and activities that help students develop the skills and emotional resilience necessary to promote positive mental health, engage 1\COUNCIUREPORTS\200STublic Safety\Safe Schools -Healthy Students Memorandum.doc