The Healthy Schools Program was launched several years ago, with the approval of the NEFEC Board of Directors, to provide winning ways in which several facets of the coordinated school program components could be accomplished. Its design supports leadership, prevention, resiliency-building, character development, and youth empowerment through experiential learning. Enhanced support from partnering community agencies and coalitions allow for event planning and sponsorship that has met with huge success and has served in an exemplary role for others across the state. Our Teen Summits, School Food Services Council, School Resource Officers Network, Drug Demand Reduction Program, Youth Crime Watch efforts, Service Learning Projects, and Risk and Resiliency Initiative serve as positive links connecting our outstanding youth and personnel.

Annual middle and high school student activities are provided through Teen Summits held at Camp Blanding. Agendas and focal points for these forums are derived from our Teen Commission represented by youth from our districts. Partnering Florida National Guardsmen and women, School Resource Officers, and Bradford County School Food Service assist in sponsoring these events.

NEFEC's SRO Network meets three times a year for purposes of staff development activity as determined by the SRO Implementation Plan, and the discussion and support of safe, secure environmental concerns of all schools.

The Drug Demand Reduction Program brings classroom and school based drug prevention sessions for students and faculties along with curriculum supported by our SDFS program and Florida National Guard, Night Vision, and Freedom Calls.

For more information on these programs, contact NEFEC at (386) 329-3800.

Teen Summit

The purpose of this event is to bring together a group of students (and school sponsors) to undergo like experiences in prevention, character and leadership development. Through experiential learning, youth gain confidence and are empowered to be better students who are:

• committed to make healthier decisions;
• build healthy relationships;
• become better team players;
• experience the value of serving others;
• represent their respective districts/schools; and
• return to share information gained.

In several cases student leaders have sponsored similar events in their own school, so that more students would benefit from those experiences in the specific theme of prevention targeted, such as, prevention of drug use, violence or conflict resolution.

School Food Service

• Provides support for the School Food and Nutrition Services Supervisors Council
• Coordinates staff development training for SFS managers and all SFS employees
• NEFEC coordinates the Annual School Food Service Conference (you can see highlights from this year's conference by clicking here)and organizes and facilitates summer events that provide sessions in effective management, communication, conflict resolution, safety in the worksite, understanding the behavior of our customers, and much more!

Drug Demand Reduction

• Through our partnership with the Florida National Guard students of elementary, middle and high schools are involved in presentations by skilled prevention specialists who share drug prevention education, character education/development, mentorship and core-value-based instruction, encouraging the importance of healthy decision-making and remaining drug-free. Guardsmen support the programs of effectiveness that are provided through our Safe and Drug Free Schools Programs.
• School leaders can establish schedules for drug prevention presentations by calling the guardsman at the NEFEC office. Those sessions can be streamlined to address areas of community/school concern as discovered through School Climate Surveys, Coalition Assessment, student/adult drug surveys, or SRO Activity Reports.

• The SRO Network is comprised of 100 plus men and women representing county sheriff's offices and police departments across the NEFEC districts. Each SRO attends training provided by the State of Florida's Attorney General's Office which stresses the role of the officer and the importance of the relationship with his/her school principal. Throughout the year NEFEC hosts training opportunities that target those areas of need as determined by the SRO Advisory Council and fellow deputies and officers. Those areas include: drug prevention, understanding the law and the consequences of crime, child abuse, conflict resolution and peer mediation, service learning, internet safety, student driver education, safe school design, disaster preparedness and safe school plans, etc.
• SROs are committed to ensuring a safe environment for student learning and teacher facilitation to prepare our children for today's world. They are participant in sponsor and leadership roles at Teen Summits, coordinate and support Youth Crime Watch organizations and Sheriff's Explorer groups, athletic programs, and minigrant efforts to incorporate student activity in service learning projects.

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