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Program Overview
Purpose: The Safe
and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act supports programs to prevent
violence in and around schools; prevent the illegal use of alcohol,
drugs, and tobacco by young people; and foster a safe and drug-free
learning environment that supports academic achievement.
School districts have been receiving funds from
the Federal Government since 1987 to support their efforts to curtail
the use of alcohol and other drugs by students and to reduce violence
in schools. Currently these funds are from Title IV-A of the No
Child Left Behind Act. These funds are given to the states to distribute
to individual school districts. Funds are allocataed to districts
by formula. Districts may use this funding for a wide range of drug
and violence prevention activities and strategies.
Ann Arbor is a part of the Livingston & Washtenaw
County Consortium which oversees the programs in each of these counties.
Funds for our programs come through the Michigan Department of Community
Health, the Office of Drug Control Policy.
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