Coeur d'alene school district 271 (CDA 271) respectfully requests $364,384.28 in BJA stop school violence FY22 funds to deliver evidence-based anti-violence training programs to its staff,…

The Coeur D'Alene School District 271 was awarded $364,384 by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839) to deliver evidence-based anti-violence training programs to staff, administrators, and students through September 2025. The District will implement programs focused on social-emotional learning, suicide prevention, bullying prevention, violence prevention, and emergency preparedness to increase school safety. Training will include trust-based relational interventions, crisis reality training, sources of strength, and the Salem-Keizer threat assessment model. This aims to provide age-appropriate mental health resources to struggling students and prevent violence against schools, staff, and students through a positive school climate. The award of $364,384 will support programming across the District's 17 school sites serving over 10,700 K-12 students in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

Coeur d'alene school district 271 (CDA 271) respectfully requests $364,384.28 in BJA stop school violence FY22 funds to deliver evidence-based anti-violence training programs to its staff, administrators, and students in coeur d'alene, idaho. The district serves 10,708 k-12 students across 17 school sites (eleven elementary schools and six secondary schools). Training programs will include trust-based relational interventions; making sense of your worth; sources of strength; crisis reality training; and the salem-keizer cascade model of behavioral threat assessment. This program will result in the implementation of training and identification of age-appropriate resources that can be used to help students who are struggling with mental health crises. The programming will also deliver training in the areas of social-emotional learning, suicide prevention, bullying prevention, violence prevention, and emergency preparedness. The program's objective is to increase school safety using evidence-based solutions to prevent violence against schools, staff, and students and ensure a positive school climate.