Safe School Grant Program Awards Quaker Valley Money

Press release from the Quaker Valley School District:

November 23, 2020

More than $84,000 will go toward school safety.

Quaker Valley has received more than $84,000 for school safety. The grant money is part of the Safe Schools Targeted Grant program.
In total, QVSD will receive a $19,800 program grant, a $24,522 equipment grant, and a $40,000 school police officer grant.

The program funding will be used for student safety programming such as ALICE training and can include creating training modules for behavioral health awareness, trauma-informed education, suicide prevention, and emergency training drills.

Equipment funding will go toward door entry security and software.

The School Police money will help offset salary costs for the QVSD Police.

This press release was produced by the Quaker Valley School District. The views expressed are the author's own.