The Trenton
Board of Education recognizes that a pupil’s abuse of harmful
substances seriously impedes that pupil’s education and
threatens the welfare of the entire school community. Thus, the
Board is dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse and the
rehabilitation of substance abusers. The Board has established
a comprehensive substance abuse intervention, prevention and
treatment referral program in the schools throughout the
district.
The Trenton School District Safe and
Drug Free Schools Program
is a comprehensive and integrated, joint school-community
program that provide students with prevention, intervention,
support and instructional services in an effort to reduce the
effects of substance abuse on the community as a whole.
The program consists of a team of staff who draft policy
language, design procedures, trains others and promotes program
awareness in order to identify, assess, refer, and support
students with alcohol and drug-related problems.
In short, the Trenton Safe and Drug Free Schools Program is a
system of all the things it is necessary to know, think, feel
and do in order to help students deal with all of the ways in
which they are affected by their own use of chemicals or someone
else’s. Ultimately, it is the result of the process of
recovering as individuals, systems, and as a community, from the
effects of alcohol and drug abuse.
Terri Kelly is
the district Substance Awareness Specialist. You can learn
more about her and the other Student Assistance Counselors by
clicking here.
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