Safe & Drug-Free Schools
Title IV
The Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act supports programs to prevent violence in and around schools; prevent the illegal use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco by young people; and foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports academic achievement. Without a safe and orderly learning environment, teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn. Students and school personnel need a secure environment, free from the dangers and distractions of violence, drug use, and lack of discipline, in order to ensure that all children achieve to their full potential.
Brockton Public School Title IV Goals for 2009-2010
- To provide all children preschool through twelve, with age appropriate science based educational materials and student centered initiatives relating to conflict resolution and violence prevention.
- To provide all children preschool through twelve, with age appropriate science based educational materials relating to drug use prevention.
Brockton Public School Title IV Activities for 2009–2010
- Continue to support the implementation of the Second Step: Violence Prevention Program in all schools K-8
- Provide resource materials and coaching/mentoring to classrooms using the Second Step curriculum
- Continue to support the Peer Mediation program system wide
- Expand the utilization of the Peace Builders Curriculum K-6 in the afterschool peer programs
- Integrate the Steps to Respect Curriculum into the Elementary Health Curriculum
- Work with Parent Liaisons in providing schools with violence prevention/drug prevention materials
- Continue to implement the science based drug prevention programs such as: Lifeskills Program, Project Alert,
Project T.N.T.(Towards No Tobacco) - Continue to strengthen the community collaborations between the Brockton Public Schools, Brockton Police Department CMCA and Drug Free Communities in providing violence prevention and substance abuse prevention programs for students and parents.
Questions and concerns contact: Mary Ellen Kirrane, 508-894-4369
