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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONOFFICE OF SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS STATE GRANTS COORDINATORS MEETING March 9, 2010 What’s the purpose? Overview/transition of OSDFS To update and outline “Bridge” Grants and School Climate Grants SAMSHA’s Prevention Ready Communities Presentation Order State of the Office – Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools Building State Capacity for Preventing Youth Substance Use and Violence – Christine Pinckney School Climate—Kevin Jennings Prevention Ready Communities—Kevin Jennings National Network Questions/Discussion Kevin Jennings Kevin.Jennings@ Office of the Assistant Deputy Secretary Kevin Jennings ____________________ Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary Bill Modzeleski - Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools - School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) - Emergency Management for Higher Education Policy and Cross-Cutting Programs Deb Rudy, Director - Safe Schools/Healthy Students Drug-Violence Prevention State Programs Paul Kesner, Director - Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities – State Grants/State, Local, Governors’ Grants Drug-Violence Prevention National Programs Norris Dickard, Director - Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse, - Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking and Violent Behavior - Mentoring Program Grants - Grants for School-Based Student Drug Testing Programs - Grants for Coalitions to Prevent and Reduce Alcohol Abuse (STOP Act) Health, Mental Health, Environmental Health and Physical Education Dana Carr, Director - Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program - Carol M. White Physical Education Program - Promotion of School Readiness through Early Childhood Emotional and Social Development (Foundations of Learning) - Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems Character and Civic Education Paul Kesner, Director - Partnerships in Character Education - Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Exchange Program - Internatio