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Adams County schools receive grant
Contributed by: District 27J on 11/30/2007

The Adams County Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative has taken a big step forward with a $7.8 million federal grant. The initiative is an integrated communitywide approach to create and sustain safe, respectful, drug-free schools, and to promote pro-social skills and healthy childhood development.

The award will fund programs and services in Adams County that support safe school environments, violence-prevention activities, alcohol-abuse and other drug-prevention activities, student behavioral, social and emotional support, mental health services and early childhood social and emotional learning programs.

A consortium of partners in Adams County has been awarded the grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Justice and Health and Human Services. The multiyear, multimillion dollar grant will help the county better coordinate its resources to promote the health and wellbeing of its children.

District Attorney Don Quick said, "I am very proud that we came together as a community to support the schools' efforts to keep our kids safe and successful. When our children graduate from high school without a criminal history or substance-abuse issue, we all win."

The final initiative is the product of many meetings at which key stakeholders in Adams County were represented. Participants included education, business representatives, parents, students, law enforcement officials from the 17th Judicial District, county agencies and community members.

Partner agencies that have committed to the oversight, coordination and implementation of Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative are Adams 12 Five Start Schools, District 14, District 27J; District 50; Mapleton Public Schools; Community Reach Center, the office of the District Attorney; 17th Judicial District, law enforcement agencies from Brighton, Broomfield, Commerce City, Federal Heights, Northglenn, Thornton and Westminster; Adams County Sheriff's Office; Adams County Social Services; Adams County Youth Initiative; early Childhood Partnership of Adams County and JVA Consulting, LLC.

According to the awarding agency, the Adams County grant was the only grant awarded in Colorado. Hundreds of applicants applied for the grant and were screened down to only 27 awards across the country.

Since 1999, the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and Justice have collaborated on the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative. The initiative is a discretionary grant program that provides students, schools and communities with federal funding to implement a coordinated, comprehensive plan to promote healthy childhood development and prevent violence and alcohol and other drug abuse.


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