Napa county office of education and a broad consortium of school, law enforcement and community-based partners propose a project to improve the safety of napa county schools

The Napa County Office of Education (NCOE) received a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) STOP School Violence Program to improve school safety in Napa County. The funding will enable NCOE to establish a multi-disciplinary County Health and School Safety Coalition that will develop standardized emergency response practices, identify and address safety needs, and support the six school districts in Napa County to adopt a coordinated Behavioral Threat Assessment (BTA) approach. This will include developing BTA teams, providing training, and implementing a digital platform to track student data. The project aims to reduce school violence through more effective prevention and response to potential threats, such as bullying, weapon use, and self-harm. Outcomes will be measured using student discipline records, suspension data, and survey feedback, with goals of decreasing suspensions involving violence or weapons and increasing student perceptions of school safety.

The purpose is to reduce school violence in napa county by more effectively preventing and responding to potential threats, including bullying, cyberbullying, fighting, weapon use, gang violence, sexual violence and self-harm. To realize this goal, napa county office of education (ncoe) will establish a multi-disciplinary county health and school safety coalition. The coalition will develop standardized emergency response practices using common language and tools to improve communication and respond to emergencies. The coalition will also identify and address safety needs and work with community partners to provide resources to students and families. In conjunction with this work, the coalition will support each of napas 6 districts toadopt a coordinated approach to behavioral threat assessment (BTA), which will include developing and sustaining multi-disciplinary school-based teams; providing training to students, staff parents and community members; and adopting a digital platform to track student data. Outcomes will be measured using student discipline records, suspension data and california healthy kids survey data, and will include a reduction in the number of suspensions involving violence or weapons possession in napa county and an increase in student perception of their ability to speak up for school safety.