Yuma, AZ – January 28, 2008

We published an article not long ago about a local event planned as part of the Safe Routes to School Program. O.C. Johnson Elementary School had a parade to promote the idea of walking or bicycling to school rather than taking the bus or being dropped off by parents. The federally-funded safe routes program has a couple of purposes. It seeks to get children to be more physically active while at the same time improving air quality and reducing traffic congestion by cutting the number of vehicles going to schools.
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Crawfordsville, IN – January 11, 2008

Montgomery County students, as well as members of the entire community, have the opportunity to learn about violence and bullying in today's school systems. All Access, which is sponsored by Montgomery County Safe Schools/Healthy Students addresses this issue through the presentation of an original, modern day musical entitled "No More Victims." The musical follows the lives of four high school students in various social roles within their school; it gives insight into their public personas and their private struggles.
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Lancaster, PA - December 30, 2007

Carlos Luciano Jr. knew the School Resource Officer Program was a success when a teacher at Wheatland Middle School came to talk to him and said, "It's a blessing you are here." Her reason had nothing to do with safety. Luciano explained, "She said, 'I've seen how you interact with kids, how you speak with them, the relationships you have with them. You are the difference between kids making a right choice and a wrong choice.' And that, said Pam Smith, the Safe Schools/Healthy Students, Project Director is exactly what the SRO initiative was intended to do.
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South Sioux City, NE - December 29, 2007

South Sioux City police officer Shawn Jensen slaps hands with young students at Lewis and Clark Elementary School as they finish lunch and head to the playground. It's just one interaction Jensen, 40, and the father of two preschoolers, cultivates in his role as the school resource officer for the six elementary schools in the South Sioux City Community Schools system. It's an assignment he requested. Just months ago he was finishing a nearly six-year stint on the Tri-State Drug Task Force where he worked with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency as the day-to-day leader in the investigation of the international Ryan Mathison drug ring.
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Olympia,WA - July 8, 2007

In a part math problem, part team-building exercise, about half a dozen students in the Komachin Middle School gym flung flying discs toward a cone, as they practiced for rounds of disc golf. “It’s a little bit of energy release and a little bit of math reinforcement, which can’t be bad,” said Komachin Middle School teacher Trent Truesdell. “The ultimate goal is for the kids to make connections to one another and to have a positive experience in a middle school setting.” About 65 students are in the second Summer Clubhouse, a North Thurston Public Schools program (paid for through the district’s three-year Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant) that encourages students from each of the district’s three middle schools to meet teachers and other students at their schools.
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