Safe and Drug Free Schools

SDFS role within the Anchorage School District

	For the past 14 years, Safe and Drug Free Schools has operated within the Anchorage School District as a catalyst, systems change agent and social/emotional R&D unit. Our goal is to help the district morph the way it does business so that both the institution and its employees will interact with children and their families in a fundamentally different manner.
	We work as a positive deviant team that strives to be congruent in our own child/person approach. We remain nimble, attuned to current developments, work through a multi-level approach and build working relationships/alliances. We put a premium on relationships as the unit of change and transformation.
	We have a proven track record over the past 14 years of helping ASD institutionalize programs, practices and policies that are improving the organizational/ social/ learning climates within schools. By most national standards, ASD is a leading pioneer in this work. Several national evaluators have attested to the radical change taking place within ASD. An increasing number of schools and staff members are implementing changes in the way they interact with families and children.
	These changes are starting to bear fruit in standard measures of reduced deficit student behavior and increased pro-social student behavior. We have seen a trend in declining student deficit behavior, i.e., alcohol use, drug use, violence, truancy, etc. We have also see an increase in the pro-social behavior of students, i.e. respecting each other, volunteerism, etc. ASD now have in place the instruments to gather and track this behavior over time, most of it down to the school level.
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