1. Extended School Day/School Violence Prevention
Lori Genito
NYSED
The After School Experience 12/2/09

2. What is Extended School Day/School Violence Prevention (ESD/SVP)?
Article 55 of the SAVE Legislation; 2814 Omnibus School Violence Prevention Program
First RFP
Applicant eligibility based on Extraordinary Needs Aid Index (ENA)
$ 5.2 Million has grown to $27.8 million
39 local educational agencies has grown to 86 local educational agencies and 58 community based organizations
2 Technical Assistance Centers (ROS and NYC)
Continuation grant for awarded programs
One will find the Omnibus School Violence Prevention Program in Article 55 of the SAVE legislation. However, the first RFP was sent out in
In , SED only had 5.2 million to award. So, SED was only able to fund 39 programs and they were all school districts. Today we are funding 88 local school districts and 58 CBOs across NYS. SED is also lucky to have technical assistance centers to provide staff development opportunities to our program coordinators and staff. Beginning in 1996, these funds have been a continuation grant, which means year to year the same programs receive the same award. Within the past 2 years the funding amount has been decreased by 6.5%.

3. Focus of Programs
Programs may include ESD activities, SVP activities or a combination
Extended School Day
support school districts with high needs to bring all students to the higher learning standard
School Violence Prevention
ensure students and school staff have a safe and secure school environment
The primary focus of the afterschool programming is to provide a balance of academic enrichment and youth development and to support the efforts of the high needs school districts to bring all students to a higher learning standard.
The focus of SVP is to ensure all school staff and students have a safe and secure learning environment

4. Extended School Day Activities
Conducted outside the regular school day
Collaboration between public school district with a not-for-profit and/or community based organization
Extra-curricular enrichment activities including:
Academic
Athletics
Art/music/drama
Mentoring
Community service/leadership development
Other activities that will increase student achievement and promote school violence prevention
Outside the regular school day, and has to work in collaboration between a school district and a not for profit OR a CBO, Some of the activities include but are not limited to ….

5. School Violence Prevention Activities
Safe corridor programs
Diversity programs
Collaborative school safety programs w/law enforcement agencies or CBOs
Metal detectors
Communication devices
Devices to increase school security and safety of school personnel and students
The activities for SVP include but are not limited to…..

6. Current Programs $27.8 Million in state funds 146 Programs
Rest of State (ROS)
53 Public Schools
30 CBOs
1 Technical Assistance Center
New York City (NYC)
33 Community School Districts
28 CBOs
Currently our ESD/SVP receive $27.8 million dollars in STATE funds
We have 146 programs statewide included in that number are our 2 TAC, 86 schools and 58 CBO .
For ROS which I am going to focus on, the lead fiscal agents consist of 53 Public school districts, 30 CBOs and 1 TAC

7. Rest of State Serving over 100,000 students
Program Activities for
53% provide both ESD and SVP
39% provide ESD Only
7% provide SVP Only
Every year the programs are required to submit an annual program report, from this documentation along with the abstract that is incorporated into the annual update, SED has analyzed the data to find that 53% of programs offer a combination of ESD and SVP, 39% offer ESD only and 7% provide SVP only. ALSO

8. Top 10 Program Activities
80% Recreation
67% AIS/Tutoring
67%Leadership Development/Community Service
62% Conflict Resolution
62% Healthy Choices
57% Enrichment
54% Social Skills
49% Social/Emotional
47% Setting Goals
46% Violence Prevention Programs
These are the top 10 activities that the programs provide to the student participants……..

9. Site Visits
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) in partnership with the New York State Center of School Safety (NYSCSS) have been conducting site visits to the ESD/SVP programs.
Since Spring of % of programs visited
Spring 2010 six additional programs will be visited
Visits will continue until all programs are seen
In 2007, the student support services department hired 2 new staff members who were both assigned to ESD/SVP. Because of this, SED has been able to devote more time and efforts to the programs, the coordinators and the student’s needs. When you have a narrative of a program in front of you, it may look wonderful or it may not look so great. In order to really understand what the program is providing for our youth, you need to see it in action. And that is what we have been doing. Since the hiring of the 2 staff, we have been able to work with our TAC at the NYS Center of School safety to conduct site visits. We come in, talk to the staff, the staff, administrators and if we are lucky some parents about what is happening. I will tell you we have been to 25 sites and we have not been disappointed once. We are seeing some great things and it has given us some insight about what is happening out there and we are able to talk to the staff to find out what help they need to make their programs better.

10. ESD/SVP Contacts NYSED: Lori Genito Audrey Almela
NYSCSS
Julliet Coxum Sheryl Post