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• Assist grantees with developing and implementing sustainability plans, including
but not limited to the financing/coordination of funding streams from federal,
state, and community sources.
• Assist states, local education agencies, and their respective local communities
with promoting state- and community-level systems integration and policy change
through the application of a SS/HS State Program framework that integrates
three components in the development of a SS/HS comprehensive plan: (1) the
five SS/HS Elements 3 ; (2) Strategic Approaches 4 ; and (3) Guiding Principles 5 .
• Develop a “best practices” repository of appropriate information, materials, and
resources on youth violence prevention, prevention of mental, emotional, and
behavioral health disorders, and the promotion of the healthy development of
children and youth.
• Assist states and communities with integrating educational and community-based
promotion, prevention, and treatment strategies for children, youth, and their
families, including knowledge of diverse racial and ethnic communities, if relevant
to the demographics of the community.
• In Year 1, establish a national SS/HS Mentoring Alumni program that matches
ten current and former SS/HS sites with 10 neighboring local education agencies
(LEAs). The mentors will assist the mentee LEAs with developing a
comprehensive plan based on the SS/HS model. The evidence based Good
Behavior Game will also be implemented in mentee elementary schools. [NOTE:
The Good Behavior Game is a universal program to reinforce appropriate social
and classroom behavior in elementary schools. The theory of the program is that
reducing early aggressive behavior will change the developmental trajectory
leading to multiple problems in later life. 6 ]
3 Element 1: Promoting early childhood social and emotional learning and development. Element 2:
Promoting mental, emotional, and behavioral Health. Element 3: Connecting families, schools, and
communities. Element 4: Preventing Behavioral Health Problems (incluiding substance use.) Element 5:
Creating safe and violence-free schools.
4 Capacity building; Collaboration and partnership; Policy change and development; Systems change and
integration; Technology.
5 Cultural and linguistic competency; Developmental appropriateness; Evidence-based interventions;
Resource leveraging; Services for vulnerable and at-risk populations; Sustainability; Youth guided and
family-driven.
6 National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. (2009). Preventing Mental, Emotional, and
Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities. Washington DC: The National
Academies Press. (184).
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