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00 CIS H 3413
TITLE: Drug Abuse
Prevention: Protecting Our Students
CIS-NO: 2000-H341-3
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Aug. 3, 1999
LENGTH:
iv+139 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-65
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477
(Full Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-24934-6.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-65. Hearing
before the Subcom on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families to review
implementation of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) program
funded under Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title IV,
the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, which provides Federal
grants to States and localities for school-based substance abuse and violence
prevention programs for youth.
Hearing was held in connection
with upcoming SDFSC program reauthorization.
Supplementary
material (p. 43-139) includes witnesses' written statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Elem and secondary public educ
substance abuse and youth violence prevention programs, extension and revision
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
EARLY CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES. HOUSE; PUBLIC SCHOOLS;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; CRIME
PREVENTION; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-EDUCATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS-EDUCATION; DRUG ABUSE AND TREATMENT; DRUGS AND YOUTH;
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT; SAFE AND DRUG-FREE
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES ACT; VIOLENCE; YOUTH
00-H341-3 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Aug. 3, 1999 p. 4-23, 47-69
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
MCCAFFREY, BARRY R. (Director, Office
of National Drug Control Policy)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Importance of youth substance abuse prevention programs,
citing extensive drug use among youth; inadequacy of current SDFSC program
funding; strategies to improve effectiveness of school-based drug use prevention
initiatives.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and
secondary public educ substance abuse and youth violence prevention programs,
extension and revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
00-H341-3 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Aug. 3, 1999 p.
24-42, 71-133
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
MODZELESKI, WILLIAM (Director, Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Program, Department of Education)
HEDRICK, THOMAS A., JR.
(Vice Chairman, Partnership for a Drug-Free America)
BOOTH, ALYSE L. (Vice President and Director,
Communications, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia
University)
SOLBERG, MARY A. (Executive Director, Troy,
Mich., Community Coalition for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse; also
representing Troy, Mich., Coalition of Healthy Communities)
LANDRY, FLORENCE G. (Coordinator, SDFSC Program, Jefferson
Parish, La., Public School System)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overall success of SDFSC program in youth substance abuse
prevention; review of Administration proposal for SDFSC program reauthorization,
focusing on drug abuse and violence prevention; strategies to prevent youth drug
abuse, including increased school, parental, and community intervention; views
on Federal funding of State and local drug abuse prevention programs.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Elem and secondary public educ
substance abuse and youth violence prevention programs, extension and revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PARTNERSHIP FOR A
DRUG-FREE AMERICA; FAMILIES; DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
LOAD-DATE: March 28, 2000 
