The city and county of SAN francisco will enhance the current SAN francisco school crisis support coordination project to improve SAN francisco unified school districts school climate

The City and County of San Francisco was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the STOP School Violence program (CFDA 16.839). The grant will enhance the San Francisco School Crisis Support Coordination Project to improve school climate and safety in the San Francisco Unified School District. Key activities include hiring additional staff, purchasing data collection software, developing a youth violence prevention public service announcement campaign, mobilizing a social media task force, and providing training on violence prevention and intervention for school personnel and law enforcement. Deliverables include enhanced coordination of the school violence interruption team, installation of a data platform, launch of the public service announcement campaign, implementation of the social media task force, and delivery of various training programs. The grant period runs from October 2, 2023 to October 1, 2026.

Project activities include hiring additional staff to be based in the SAN francisco unified school district; purchasing data collection software; developing a SAN francisco youth violence prevention public service announcement campaign; mobilizing a social media task force; and continued training and capacity building of school violence interrupters, school personnel, and probation officers. Deliverables include enhanced coordination of the school violence interruption team and support in the delivery of school violence interrupter response services, installation of a data platform to centralize and secure data, launch of the public service announcement campaign to uplift the support available for SAN francisco youth, implementation of the social media task force that actively monitors and tracks flagged social media accounts to prevent incidents of violence, and implementation of training on various topics aimed at preventing school violence.