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SAPs are designed to meet the critical need for early intervention services among youth who are experiencing problem behaviors and negative consequences often related to mental health, substance use, or other personal issues. The cost of planned services is dependent on five interrelated factors:
- Number of youths in need of service (e.g., it has been estimated that 10 - 20% of a school’s student body may benefit from SAP-type services );
- Size of the school population;
- Breadth of services to be provided;
- Use of current school staff to deliver services (e.g., Core Team model); and,
- Use of service contracts to support personnel based at the school site or with external
community-based organizations (e.g., Counselor Model).
Potential Funding Sources for SAPs
Along with existing resources that allow for school staff to be trained and assigned to SAP approaches, and additional budgetary allocations within a district, there are several state and federal funding programs that may provide resources for SAP services. These include the following:
- Safe and Drug Free Schools—No Child Left Behind, Title I, Title IV, Title V
- GRAA (Grant to Reduce Alcohol) - Federal grant
- SB 1113—Safe Schools and Violence Prevention Act
- AB1802—Counselor Resource Funding
- SB 65 or School Dropout Prevention Specialists
- General Fund
- T.U.P.E. (Tobacco Use Prevention Education)
- School Community Violence Prevention Grants
- After-school program funding
- Foster youth funding
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