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Final Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) SRFC Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SS/HS) Connections Grant Partners of Suburban Ramsey County experiencing high risk circumstances in the areas of school safety, AT OD use, behavioral, social and emotional support, mental health needs and early childhood social and emotional learning. SS/HS Project Guiding, Principals, Strategies and Goals: There are eight guiding, principals and ten main strategies that the SS/HS Partners embrace and embed throughout our logic model. All principals have been guided by the collaborative partnership who has worked together for ten years to create, develop and sustain meaningful and positive change for children, youth and families experiencing at-risk circumstances in Suburban Ramsey County. Intervention targets at the individual, family, and community levels are identified and prioritized on the basis of local needs and resource assessment that both takes into account the concerns and priorities of all sectors of the community and capitalizes on the resources and capabilities of all sectors of the community. The local intervention system targets risk and protective factors at the individual, family, and community levels that have been shown to influence school safety, violence, healthy child/youth development and social, emotional, behavioral and mental health. The most recent local needs, resources and community assessment consist of four main bodies of local research: 1) The MN Student Survey (MSS), conducted by the MN Department of Education and administered every three years to 6th, 9th and 12th graders in Minnesota. In 2004, the MSS was administered to approximately 6,650 Suburban Ramsey 6th, 9th and 12 th graders. The survey was developed as a way to monitor priority risk and protective behaviors among students. 2) The "How are the Children?" comprehensive community assessment completed in 2006; 3) The Four School District Consortium Community Mapping and Multi-Cultural Needs Assessments completed in 2006 and 4) The How Are the Children? Coalition (H.A C) strategic planning event occurred in 2006 with a broad base of multi-sector, multi - n rational community members. In addition to this most current research, our partners have worked with Dr. Michael Resnick and Dr. Pat Harrison since 2000, utilizing, the findings of the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health via the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center at the University of Minnesota, to bring best practices and current scientific evidence to the forefront of programs and policies in Suburban Ramsey County so as to promote the healthy development of young people. This theoretical framework called "Investing, In Youth" Res arch -Based Recommendations for Parents, Schools and Communities" was based on youth development theory. A companion piece to the "Investing in Youth" document for early childhood development was created in 2002 with the University of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium, under Dr. Joan Sykorra's tutelage and authored wla�