• Safe and Drug-Free Schools Native Hawaiian Program
  Application/Competition deadline: April 21, 2008.

• Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grant Competition
  Application/Competition deadline: May 19, 2008.

• Emergency Management for Higher Education
  Application/Competition deadline: May 27, 2008.

2008

• OSDFS Announces FY 2008 Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems

2007

• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Menotring Grants

• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Awards for Emergency Response and Crisis Management Discretionary Grant Program
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• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative awards.

• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Awards for Foundations for Learning Grants

• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Awards for Grant to Reduce Alcohol Abuse

• OSDFS Announces FY 2007 Awards for the Carol M. White Physical Education Program Grants (includes contact and funding information)

Human Trafficking of Children in the United States - A Fact Sheet for Schools (August 2007)

• 2007 OSDFS National Conference
  Celebrating 20 Years of Collaboration To Make Schools Safe, Healthy, and drug Free: Reflecting on the Past and Looking Ahead was the theme of this year's conference that reflected on the past 20 years to highlight key events affecting the OSDFS and focused on how these occurences have molded the current mission today and outcomes for the future. It provided educational leaders with a valuable opportunity to explore these topics and receive information that can influence policy design and effective decisionmaking. Individual presentations from the conference will be available in the near future.

• SECRETARY'S LETTER AND OTHER INFORMATION FROM WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON SCHOOL SAFETY
  As a follow-up to the recent White House Conference on School Safety, the U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, issued a follow-up cover letter and message from the conference. The Department also held a School Safety Live Video Webcast on November 15, 2007--to review crisis planning and learn how schools can mitigate, prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from a crisis.

• Enhancing Achievement and Proficiency through Safe and Drug-Free Schools" is a report by the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Advisory Committee (June 2007) See the press release and report MS Word (156K)

• The Department's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools is organizing emergency teams of physicians and medical personnel to provide immediate mental health services to local communities. The OSDFS has established a toll-free hotline for people in crisis. By calling 1-800-273-TALK, callers will be connected to trained professionals from a network of local counseling centers that are prepared to help those suffering from emotional trauma, such as anger, grief, hopelessness, shock, and sleeplessness, as a result of the disaster. The hotline is open 24 hours a day, every day.