Families and youth, INC. Proposes implementing integrated multitiered school-based systems of support in southern new mexico

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to Families & Youth Inc. to implement integrated, multi-tiered school-based systems of support to address school violence in three target schools within the Las Cruces Public Schools district. The project aims to develop comprehensive, trauma-informed, and evidence-based violence reduction strategies, including implementing multi-tiered interventions, enhancing school safety plans, and establishing collaborative case management and crisis response coordination. Key expected outcomes include improving multi-disciplinary school safety and crisis teams, reducing recidivism in school violence, and driving regular program quality improvements.

The purpose is to develop comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, trauma-informed, and best practices school-based violence reduction strategies in three target schools within LAS cruces public schools. Project activities include implementing evidence-based multi-tiered interventions to address school violence; developing and implementing school-based collaborative case management and crisis team coordination; enhancing school safety plans aligned with individualized school needs and populations. Expected outcomes include enhancing multi-disciplinary school safety and crisis teams to address the school violence needs of students in the proposed schools; provision of evidence-based interventions; reduction in recidivism in school violence; and regular program quality improvements.