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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
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