New Dawn Charter School STOP School Violence Prevention Program Grant Consortium

New Dawn Charter School (New Dawn) is the lead Local Education Agency (LEA) for a NYC Charter School Consortium for the STOP School Violence Prevention Grant, a high-quality program designed to improve K-12 school security. New Dawn’s proposed STOP grant includes the following program areas: 1) Develop and operate a technology solution; 2) Develop and implement multidisciplinary behavioral threat assessment (BTA) teams; and 3) Train school personnel and students. The Consortium includes fifteen (15) LEAs/public charter schools serving 10,976 students in grades K through 12 in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. A complete list of LEAs and schools is included in the Memorandum of Understanding. New Dawn’s STOP program will improve school climate and reduce violence through the development of comprehensive programs that include: 1) implementation of the We Tip anonymous reporting solution; 2) enhancing plans, policies, and protocols related to school safety, violence prevention, and crisis response; 3) creating trauma-informed schools; 4) enhancing Behavioral Threat Assessments Teams and the ability to conduct threat assessments for students who are at-risk for threats of harm to self or others using Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines; 5) training and technical assistance to conduct school safety audits, which includes training in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, emergency exercises/drills, and updated emergency plans; and 6) training school personnel and educating students to prevent, mitigate, respond quickly to and recover from violence and crisis using trauma-informed skills for teachers, parents and students and a suicide prevention curriculum. We will ensure that all implementation strategies, policies, and protocols created under this grant program address critical issues such as student privacy, data security, race, national origin, disability, religion and sex-based discrimination and bias. Our management plan is designed to achieve all the objectives of the proposed program on time and within budget, including clearly defined responsibilities of staff, community partners, and contracted service providers. The Consortium is seeking consideration under Priority 1A. Our proposed STOP project meaningfully contributes to greater access to services and opportunities for our community that has been historically underserved, marginalized, adversely affected by inequality, and disproportionately impacted by crime, violence, and victimization.  New Dawn’s application includes resumes for key personnel, a timeline, a Memorandum of Understanding with community partners, and goals, objectives and deliverables.