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Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) SRFC Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SSIHS) Connections Grant Partners of Suburban Ramsey County The local social service partners including the Northwest Youth and Family Services (NYFS), Episcopal Community Services, and Keystone Community Services currently providing school -linked and Community-based Community Social Worker (CSW) in our consortium schools and communities via SRFC since 2001 (Element 3); The Family Project, a parent support network that promotes the health, safety and success of their children, has been teaming with SRFC for over seven years, bring parents together at monthly "Family Gatherings" where they talk about issues that are important to them, help each other solve problems, and take action together on behalf of their children. (Elements 1 and 3); All of these partners have been, and will continue to be involved in the ongoing design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the comprehensive community wide plan to create safe and drug-free schools and promote healthy childhood development in Suburban Ramsey County. In addition, the following partners will join our collaboration to help us carryout the goals of the SS/HS Initiatives/Projects: The Ramsey County Attorney's Office, now in its 10th y ear, offering the Truancy Intervention Program (TIP), an early -intervention program designed to improve the attendance of students 6 to 17 years old in the four district consortium (Element 3); Ramsey County Juvenile Court Judges involving persons under 19 years of age who have been charged with a delinquent act, status or traffic violation (Elements 1, 2 and 3). Local Higher Education institutions will partner with the Suburban Ramsey Safe Schools -Healthy Students Initiative to create a "Multi -cultural Internship Program" where current bicultural University/College students engage in hands-on learning with Suburban Ramsey School -Linked services as a part of their senior level coursework. Mutual learning will take place between interns and practitioners who will develop, apply and integrate multicultural perspectives (vs. a prescriptive ethnic perspective) and research into school -linked service provision. Together, these partners will ensure effective change and access to resources, policies, programs, and services that advance the following five SS/HS 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 • Element Five: Early Childhood Social and Emotional Learning Programs All of these programs were selected because of our current relationships in providing functional school -linked programming and our need to streamline systems, cross train on research -based approaches relevant to each partner's field of service, expand services to meet increasing need and more effectively serve an increasing number of students Page 4 of 16