The Buckeye Local School Student Assistance Program seeks as its goal to reduce the incidence of chemical abuse, violence, and crime by improving individual decision making regarding healthy choices thus creating a substantially improved learning environment for both students and staff as well as improving the standard of living for the community.
 

The Buckeye Local School District has been committed to providing Student Assistance services in the area of prevention programming and support in grades K-12 for close to twenty years. In addition to drug abuse prevention the district has found it necessary over the past few years to further enhance the education of its students by reducing the incidence of violence and crime. Programs such as Conflict Management and Peer Mediation as well as stronger discipline procedures have helped this endeavor. We have also continued our collaboration with various community endeavors and are using the research by the Search Institute focusing on developing Asset Building and Resiliency Skills. These endeavors, combined with existing components, have allowed the Buckeye Local School District to benefit from a fully comprehensive Student Assistance Program.

The components of the program include: curriculum infusion; awareness programming for students, staff, and parents; cooperative efforts between the Office of Student Assistance, guidance departments, school psychologists and administration for individual and family intervention of those students presenting at-risk behaviors, alternative activities to chemical use and small group support.

Collaborative efforts with the Medina County Share Cluster, Medina County Crisis Management Team, and Youth Violence Task Force provide the district with valuable support and information regarding prevention and other pertinent school related concerns in the county.

In order to accomplish the Buckeye School District goal of providing prevention/intervention services to our students (4-12) during the school year, the district utilizes funding through the Medina County Drug Abuse Commission (MCDAC), Safe Drug Free Schools Grant, and District General Fund. This support provides our district with a District Prevention Coordinator and a School Resource Officer who are both located in the High School.

Our District Prevention Coordinator provides full time administrative coordination of district prevention programming, and grant previsions as well as prevention services for the students, faculty and staff within the district.

Our School Resource Officer is a Deputy Sheriff who provides security services throughout the district. He also provides DARE classroom presentations to our 6th grade students and bullying, drug use/legal consequences, and internet safety lessons to our 8th and 10th grade students. He also helps facilitate the district safety program, parent programs and various other staff and student training activities.