Student Services Action Item

DATE:	Tuesday, May 19, 2015
TO:	School Board Members
FROM:	Jeff Eakins, Acting Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
Approve the Agreement for Technical Services with the C. E. Mendez Foundation, Inc. (Mendez Foundation) to Provide Professional Development to School-Based Staff in School Climate Transformation Year One Schools Utilizing the Too Good For Drugs and Too Good For Violence Curricula (Student Services Division)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With approval, this Agreement for Technical Services will continue the partnership between The School Board of Hillsborough County, Florida (HCPS) and the Mendez Foundation, which began when the Foundation’s prevention education specialists first entered our classrooms back in 1979.  The Mendez Foundation has since been an invaluable partner providing high-impact drug and violence prevention and K-12 educational presentations, as well as discussion forums for parents and students in HCPS.  As a component of the School Climate Transformation grant, one of the district awarded Now Is The Time initiatives, HCPS is expanding its partnership with the Mendez Foundation to train school-based staff at five project schools for year one in the use of Too Good for Drugs and Too Good for Violence Curricula.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
All Strategic Objectives
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted:  Yes)
Funding for this project will be paid from the School Climate Transformation Grant in the amount of $24,397.
EVALUATION
Program services are evaluated by the provider and the third-party evaluator.
SUBMITTED BY:  Nakeba Finlayson, Supervisor, MTSS-RtI

Wynne A. Tye, Assistant Superintendent		Gretchen Saunders
Student Services Division (813) 273-7033		Chief Business Officer (813) 272-4270
		A 6.03
Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20150519_692 (Board Meeting) * Section A Item# 6.03