SCHOOLS & POLICE
New Grant Opportunity
The Office of Policy and Management (OPM) and its Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (JJAC) are announcing funding for the Right Response CT Network. The Right Response CT Network is a new school-police-community collaboration for school safety through consistent and appropriate handling of disruptive students. Local public agencies are eligible to apply for $45,000 for the period of October 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.
Successful applicant agencies under the Right Response CT Network must undertake the following complementary activities.
A) Identify at least two contact persons who will lead the local initiative (one school contact and one community contact) and update those contacts with OPM as necessary. B) Establish a local collaboration team with appropriate school, police and community membership that will meet at least quarterly. C) Participate in at least four Network sessions including two daylong meetings for contact persons and two half day training events for members of the local collaboration team. D) Send at least 10 school staff to the JJAC’s daylong training called “Effective School Staff Interactions with Students and Police.” E) Customize, sign, and implement a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the schools and the police based upon a model that has been developed by the JJAC. F) Increase or enhance preventive and/or intervention strategies. G) Prepare, and submit to OPM for approval, a budget and budget narrative explaining how grant funds will be expended. Applications are due Friday, August 30, 2013. The full program with a Word version of the application form is available on OPM’s web site at Right Response CT Network Application.