Safe Schools/Healthy Students

Bakersfield City School District

Funded Years : 2004

Project Director :
Vivian A. Gayles
661-631-4938
gaylesv@bcsd.com

Address :
1300 Baker Street
Bakersfield,CA 93305

Project Status :

Project Summary : Bakersfield will work with the needs of students in the two largest non-unified school districts serving the Kern High School District (KHSD) with 29,333 students, and the Bakersfield City School District (BCSD) with 28,999 students. The goals for the Initiative are to create a safe school environment conducive to learning, to reduce the incidence to truancy, violence and alcohol, tobacco and drug use, to reduce the risk and delay onset of mental health problems and increase access to mental health services, to have children psychologically , socially and physically ready to learn; to promote the social, psychological, and academic success of all students; to create school wide policies that support safe school practices across grade levels, schools and districts and to create a model program that is replicable in other communities.

Evidence-Based Programs :
Building Effective Schools Together (BEST)
Mental Health Screening and Services
Mentoring
On Site Mental Health Clinics Home Visitations
Parents as Teachers
Guiding Good Choices - Families That Care Program/Preparing for the Drug-Free Years
Safe Schools Ambassadors
Second Step
Too Good for Drugs (TGFD)
Truancy Reduction Program