Safe and Drug-Free Schools

The goal of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is to coordinate prevention and intervention plans and programs designed to help ensure the maintenance of safe and drug-free schools by using all resources effectively and efficiently so that student achievement will be improved for all students. To achieve this goal we must work cooperatively and collaboratively with school system staff, our interagency partners, community members and parents. Our objectives are to promote increased focus on behavior management through the implementation of character education and behavior management plans, to coordinate and monitor the implementation of programs designed to teach students how to make good decisions, to coordinate initiatives to help prevent, intervene with, and support students who may choose to make destructive decisions, and to monitor the use of grant funds to make sure students benefit from services provided to support them.

Listed below are some of the plans and programs that are coordinated collaboratively by the three interagency partners to keep students safe and drug-free:

• Students Against Destructive Decisions Program (SADD)
• Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (DARE)
• School Resource Officers Program (SRO)
• Maryland Student Assistance Program (MSAP)
• Juvenile Offenders In Need of Supervision Program (JOINS)
• Health Education Curriculum
• Ninth Grade Social Studies Curriculum
• The Police Department School's Unit, Grades K-7
• After-Prom Parties Program
• Parenting Programs
• Behavior Management and Emergency Management Plans
• Health and Wellness Fairs