Local Management Boards Announce School Climate Grant Projects
The Governor’s Office for Children has awarded a $10,000 School Climate Grant to each Local Management Board to support community capacity-building by supporting existing school climate activities in the jurisdictions. Funding is available to support one-time expenditures (or ongoing expenditures if a clear description of the source and sustainability of funding that will be used to continue the project/program is provided).
Below is a listing of the proposals, by jurisdiction, that have been approved by the Governor’s Office for Children for implementation. For more detail on a project(s), please contact the applicable Local Management Board. Contact information may be accessed on the Local Management Board directory.
School Climate Grant Projects
The Local Management Board of Allegany County
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| The Bully Busters Seminars | The Bully Busters seminars will be open to 750 children between the ages of 6-12 and will instill participating children with the set of skills necessary to resolve conflicts before they begin. It will also teach participants “12 ways to walk away with confidence”. | $10,000 |
Anne Arundel County Partnership for Children, Youth, and Families
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Updating School Counseling Curriculum | The Anne Arundel County Public Schools System school counseling curriculum is currently being updated to include more emphasis on assertiveness and refusal skills in order to reduce violence and prevent/mediate bullying. This grant will allow for the purchasing of “I Can Cope” and “All About Bullying” materials for elementary and middle school students. | $10,000 |
Family League of Baltimore City
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Agents of Change: Empowering Youth to Improve Climate | This initiative will begin with a youth summit, where up to 10 students from each of the 45 Community Schools in Baltimore City will come together to learn about school climate, growth mindset, and leadership skills. Students will then work with school principals and administrators to develop school-specific plans to improve school climate. | $10,000 |
Baltimore County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Bullying Prevention and Intervention Training Program/McGrath Training Systems | Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) proposes to work with McGrath Training Systems to provide a comprehensive bullying prevention and intervention training program, in a train the trainer format, for 6-8 BCPS administrators. These administrators, in turn, would provide training for appropriate staff across the system. The comprehensive training would involve bullying awareness, intervention, and investigation, among other topics. | $10,000 |
Calvert County Family Network
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Olweus Bullying Prevention | In collaboration with Calvert County Public Schools, two schools will receive Olweus bullying prevention training. Funding for this project will go towards the training itself, as well as training materials and a student questionnaire, which will allow for the collection of baseline data from students. | $7,500 |
| Make the Difference Anti-Bullying Summit | The Make the Difference Anti-Bullying Summit is a one day event for students from grades 4-11 on the Campus of the College of Southern Maryland. Students will have the opportunity to network with students from other schools and will be asked to reflect on their experiences and present a list of anti-bullying recommendations to their school administrations. | $2,500 |
Caroline Human Services Council, Inc.
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| School Climate Improvement Initiative | Funding from this grant will be used to expand Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) to the Caroline Career and Technology Center and allow the nine schools already operating PBIS to host a series of events throughout the school year. | $10,000 |
Carroll County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Multicultural Middle School Youth Empowerment Conference | This conference will include roughly 300 middle school students, allowing for a key note speaker and workshop by The Upside Down Organization. The conference will feature three tracks (Esteem/Building Friendships, Communication/Social Media, and Conflict/Mediation) and feature a call to action for participating students and schools. | $10,000 |
Cecil County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Second Steps | The Cecil County Local Management Board and Cecil County Public Schools will be purchasing Second Step curriculum kits for students in grades K-5. These kits will be used to supplement the work already going on in many schools and will be utilized by children for years to come. | $10,000 |
Dorchester Community Partnership for Children and Families
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Too Bright to Fight | Dorchester County Public Schools will implement the Second Step Bullying Prevention Program in all seven elementary schools and two secondary schools. it will be used as a prevention program with all students and an intervention program for those students found to be involved in bullying. | $10,000 |
Frederick County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Stand Together: A Student Powered Event |
This will be a follow-up to a Rachel’s Challenge event held in October 2014 and will include approximately 150 middle and high school students. Middle school students will convene in small groups to discuss their experiences with Rachel’s Challenge and develop plans for their school clubs moving forward. High school students will divide into groups before making presentations to middle school students addressing to key questions:
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$1,373.94 |
| Youth Resource Fair | The Youth Resource Fair is a free event that will provide parents and youth with information on programs and services for youth ages 5-21 in Frederick County. Programs and services to be highlighted include: afterschool programs, child and family services, dropout prevention, educational programs, hotlines and crisis, job assistance, mental health, mentoring programs, school assistance, sports and recreation, substance abuse, summer camps, volunteer opportunities, etc. | $385 |
| Frederick Keys Game/Anti-Bullying Event |
Anti-bullying will be emphasized during the pre-game at an upcoming Frederick Keys game. This will include:
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$2,305.06 |
| Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Training (PBIS) |
In an effort to sustain positive academic and behavioral success, Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) endeavors to provide ongoing training and sharing of best practices. FCPS will convene members of Positive Behavior and Support Teams from our schools to focus on:
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$5,936 |
Garrett County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| What Would You Do? | The Garrett County Local Management Board will bring in educational facilitators from “Rachel’s Challenge” to an assembly at each of Garrett County’s high schools followed by a community event open to both students and parents. These events will allow the high schools to enhance their safe and supportive learning environments and address bullying. | $10,000 |
Harford County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support | This funding will go towards the expansion of PBIS to three new schools in Harford County, as well as to maintain the quality in the 13 existing programs. | $6,000 |
| At-Promise Academy | The At-Promise Academy is a conference event for over 100 female middle and high school students from across Harford County. The event will provide anti-bullying strategies and interactive workshops for attendees. | $4,000 |
Family and Community Partnerships of Kent County
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Challenge Day – Be the Change 2015 | Challenge Day is a one day event that will bring together 100 students and 25 community members to develop leadership and social and emotional skills in students. | $4,300 |
| Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program | The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program is a community-based outreach program of Light for Life Foundation International. Yellow Ribbon offers a program that teaches about the internal nature of depression and loneliness, and two school staff will be trained through the program. | $700 |
| Second Step/Steps to Respect | Second Step is a classroom-based social skills program for children ages 4-14. The program teaches socio-emotional skills aimed at reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior while increasing social competence. Through this grant, Kent County Public Schools will make a one time only purchase of this curriculum. | $5,000 |
Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| County-wide Anti-Bullying PSA | The Collaboration Council will partner with the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights and the Montgomery County Committee on Hate Violence to develop a county-wide awareness PSA to be run at two of the largest movie theaters in Montgomery County. The 30 second ad would run for 6-8 weeks before every movie screened at both theaters. | $10,000 |
Prince George’s County Commission for Children, Youth & Families
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Should Could Dream Tour | The Should Could Dream Tour is a motivational and inspirational stage production. The show addresses issues faced by our youth and teaches them important techniques to overcome the issues and succeed in school. The show will be put on at five high schools, two middle schools, and the MNCPPC Youth Summit. | $10,000 |
Queen Anne’s County Community Partnerships for Children and Families
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Queen Anne’s County Unity Day | Unity Day is a county-wide event that brings a strong, consistent, evidence-based anti-bullying message to all schools in Queen Anne’s County. Anti-bullying t-shirts will be provided to all staff and students, and there will be events at each of the county schools. In addition, there will be follow-up throughout the year through the Olweus evidenced-based bullying-prevention curriculum. | $10,000 |
St. Mary’s County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Teaching Social Skills | Funding will go to support the expansion of three social skills instruction programs: Steps to Respect, Skillstreaming, and Check In Check Out. Steps to Respect, which provides skill and literature-based lessons to elementary school students over 12 weeks, will be expanded to 4 new schools. Skillstreaming and Check In Check Out would be expanded at the middle and high school levels. | $10,000 |
Somerset County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Anti-Bullying Program by Mitchell’s Martial Arts | The program will complement existing Positive Action and Too Good for Violence at two afterschool sites and will target students in grades 3-8. The program will include strategies to recognize and address bullying and then ask students to create their own anti-bullying campaigns. | $1,000 |
| Bowl Away Bullying | This event will be the culmination of anti-bullying activities for students in the afterschool programs, and students will receive prizes and incentives to encourage thoughtfulness in their anti-bullying campaigns. | $2,800 |
| Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) | Three officers from the Crisfield Police Department will provide a bullying awareness and training program for SADD members at the Crisfield Academy and High School. Students will then create their own anti-bullying campaign. | $2,000 |
| Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) | Two officers from the Princess Anne Police Department will supplement DARE by providing bullying awareness programs at two area elementary schools. | $2,000 |
| Community-wide Outreach Event | Will host a joint event with Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol to target the prevention of a number of negative behaviors. The event will feature a fishing derby hosted by Natural Resources Police and a number of student presentations of anti-bullying information. | $2,200 |
Talbot Family Network
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| One-Time School Climate Grants | One-time grant funding will be made available to each of the secondary schools in Talbot County to support evidence-based practices already in place. | $10,000 |
Washington County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Washington County Kindness Campaign | Washington County will be using multiple strategies to improve school climate. The first will be a Rachel’s Challenge event at Northern Middle School, where students will be introduced to “Friends of Rachel” and encouraged to plan and carry out acts of kindness initiatives throughout the school year. In addition, Washington County will bring the Second Step curriculum into three middle schools and one elementary school. | $10,000 |
Worcester County Local Management Board
| Project | Summary | Amount |
| Health Education Classes | Worcester County will purchase instructional and curricular materials for seventh and eighth grade health classes. This will include Developmental Asset and Igniting Sparks materials for seventh and eighth graders and the Great Body Shop Curriculum for nine weeks of eighth grade instruction. This will include information on social and emotional health, conflict resolution, substance abuse prevention, and other topics. | $10,000 |
Check back often! This chart will be updated frequently as proposals are approved.
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