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Safe Schools and Violence Prevention
All California Department of Education (CDE) programs have an effect on the learning
environment and therefore on school safety. The programs described below are the
primary activities that have the improvement of school safety as their principal goal.
• School Safety Block Grant. This program provides approximately $95 million
annually for a block grant to school districts serving youths in grades eight through
twelve, based primarily on student enrollment. Another $1 million is allocated to
county offices of education, also based on enrollment. These funds may be used
for all violence-prevention strategies, including implementing science-based
violence-prevention programs, hiring personnel trained in conflict resolution,
providing on-campus communication devices, establishing staff training programs,
and establishing cooperative arrangements with law enforcement.
• Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (S&DFSC). This program,
funded by the No Child Left Behind Act, provides approximately $32 million
annually for school- and community-based alcohol-, drug-, and violenceprevention
programs. The two primary elements of the program are (1) the
maintenance of a statewide leadership program operated through county
S&DFSC coordinators who provide training, technical assistance, and leadership
to school districts in the implementation of a prevention program; and (2) CDE
leadership of the statewide transition to the use of research-based prevention
programs. The program is administered by the Safe and Healthy Kids Program
Office. For more information regarding the S&DFSC, visit the Safe and Drug-Free
Schools and Communities Act Web site at http://www.cde.ca.gov/51969.
• School Community Violence Prevention (SCVP). Assembly Bill 825 of 2004
created a new school violence-prevention grant program by collapsing all previous
appropriations for school violence-prevention grants into one program. Grants are
for as much as $500,000 spread over a five-year period, and they may be used to
address any violence-prevention needs. Successful applications will have
demonstrated:
1. A strong collaborative process that includes school staff, local law
enforcement, families, students, and community members;
2. Significant school safety needs as identified by a needs analysis conducted by
the collaborative group;
3. A plan, created by the collaborative, which uses prevention programs of
demonstrated effectiveness to address the identified needs; and
4. Coordination of the SCVP grant with existing school safety activities funded by
other fund sources.
• School/Law Enforcement (S/LE) Partnership. Since 1983 the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Attorney General have unified
their efforts and resources through the S/LE partnership. The S/LE Partnership
highlights collaborative programs that involve members of the entire school
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