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STATE OF MINNESOTA JUVENILE DELINQUENCY PREVENTION ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR MINI-GRANT • JUSTICE GRANT PROGRAM PAGE 2 PROJECT TITLE: SCHOOL AWARENESS GROUPS IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: St. Anthony Village School District 4282 SPONSORING UNIT OF GOVERNMENT: City of St. Anthony Village 10.- PROGRAM SUMMARY. PROJECT PURPOSE: To provide appropriate group and individual activities for students and their families, in a small suburban community, which will model and encourage appropriate social and life skills. In recent years, our school district has been asked to assume substantially more responsibility for behavior that can be classified as pre-delinquent behavior and petitionable problem behavior. We wish to deal with this before it becomes a larger problem in our school community. Our data indicates from Grade 5 thru 12, we have had over 65 .suspensions of 1 to 5 days resulting from chemical use (smoking, • drinking, etc.) truancy excessive absences and unexcused absences (including runaways) . Through our proposed group work, we wish to strengthen the home, school, community, and peer ties to appropriately deal with problems prior to their becoming more volatile within our educational programs. 'Operating peer groups within the school base where we can address school behaviors as they result from home and community problems seems to be an appropriate and effective way to strengthen positive social and life skills. MAJOR PROGRAM FEATURES: This program will make use of peer support groups, role playing, modeling, and the provision of strategies and techniques for coping with situations that may lead to problem behaviors. Home, school, and community relationships will be strengthened through group support meetings involving parents, students, and community agency members. " PROGRAM OBJECTIVES: 1. - Provide support groups that will: (a) be made up of heterogeneous groups of students in Grades 5 thru 12. Students and their families will be provided with appropriate group and individual activities dependent upon the level of social support that they • have and the severity of their problems. (b) Deal with immediate and long range concerns of students as they relate to appropriate citizenship behaviors.