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Grant Elements
School Safety Program
Title IV Grant
Achievement Character Excellence
Success Through Academic Reform
Kyrene Learning Labs
Alternative to Suspension Program
Infant Development Program

Kyrene Attendance Policies
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Element One:
Safe School Environment

•Expand safety training for teachers and administrators.

Element Two:
Alcohol and Other Drug/Violence Prevention & Early Intervention

•Increase staff members’ understanding and awareness of prevention as evidenced by the number of effective prevention programs offered district-wide
•Reduce fragmentation of prevention activities and strategies
•Provide a Prevention Supervisor for each region
•Integrate the Second Step Violence Prevention
•Curriculum in six  schools per year
•Decrease number of victims of racism through the implementation of Mini-Town Diversity Workshops in the six middle schools

Element Three:
School and Community Mental Health Preventive and
Treatment Intervention Services

•Expand the level and number of mental health services available to students and families as early prevention/intervention
•Improve communication system between service providers
•Provide bully prevention, anger management, and social skills groups to students

Element Four: 
Early Childhood Psychosocial and Emotional Development Series
•Enroll children in early childhood educational programs to provide them with school readiness skills
•Provide high quality training to staff in early childhood programs
•Expand family-focused prevention and treatment services, to include   home visits, in order to reduce substance abuse, infant mortality and child abuse neglect
•Increase network of services and support to high-risk families with children ages 0-5

Element Five:
Educational Reform

•Decrease the amount of time students are off campus through the implementation of a on-campus alternative to suspension program
•Expand number of schools involved in providing after school learning opportunities and enrichment for high-risk students
•Expand on-campus suspension program to include character education component
•Provide staff with resources and training to reduce, if not eliminate, bully/victim problems among elementary and middle school children in and outside of the school setting

Element Six:
Safe School Policies

•Revise and implement emergency procedures plan to be used at all 25 schools
•Train all school staff and administrators on the emergency procedures plan


 
Partnering Agencies

•Youth ETC

•Second Step Curriculum
Committee for Children


•Mini-Town Diversity Workshops - National Conference for Community and Justice

•Jewish Family and Children Services

•Southwest Human Development

•Kyrene Infant Development Program (KID)
 
   

© Kyrene School District - Samantha Heinrich - Assistant Director (Department Phone: 480-783-4083)