The Page County Sheriff's Office will provide a 13-week middle school G.R.E.A.T curricula to 300, 7th graders at Luray Middle School, Page County Middle School and Mt. Carmel Christian Academy.

The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program is a life-skills competency program designed to provide students with the skills they need to avoid gang pressure and youth violence. G.R.E.A.T.'s violence prevention curricula help students develop values and practice behaviors that will help them avoid destructive activities. G.R.E.A.T. program staff coordinates project activities with federal, regional, state, and local agencies, as well as individuals from community and civic groups. The goal of the program is to train criminal justice professionals to deliver a school-based curriculum that teaches life-skills competencies, gang awareness, and violence-avoidance techniques.

The Page County Sheriff's Office will use FY 2010 Bureau of Justice Assistance Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program funds to deliver the middle school component at two public schools. The G.R.E.A.T. Program is a school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum. The program's primary objective is prevention and is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership. G.R.E.A.T. lessons focus on providing life skills to students to help them avoid delinquent behavior and violence to solve problems.

The curriculum will be offered to 300 seventh graders. Grant funds will be used to pay for salaries, travel for training and conference attendance, and supplies associated with the costs of implementing the G.R.E.A.T. program in the Page County.

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