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0 1,160 IJS�kSPaC+E Request for Council Action Item Number: 7-e Item Description: Memorandum of Understanding: Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Grant 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 (AT'OD use, henceforth referred to as the SS/HS comprehensive plan. This plan addresses the following five elements: 0 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 city attorney has reviewed the agreement and has offered the attached copy for approval. I I rill ;q� The Suburban Ramsey Family Collaborative partners including the four district consortium of (ISD 621- Mounds View, 622- North St. Paul -Maple rood- Oakdale, 623- Roseville and 624,- White Bear Lake), local and public mental health, local law enforcement, and juvenilejustice 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 in pro-social behavior, and prevent violent behavior and drug use; and create schools and communities that are a safe, disciplined, and drug-free environment; and engage parents, community organizations, and social services agencies to help develop an infrastructure that will institutionalize and sustain successful grant components after federal funding has ended. Chief Carol Sletner is a member of the SS/HS Core Management Team which is responsible for providing direction to the SS/HS Project Director and for leading and managing SS/HS project goals and collaborative processes. Key administrators from each school district, a local law enforcement representative, juvenile