{"id":43272,"date":"2023-04-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=43272"},"modified":"2023-04-06T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:00:00","slug":"monty-tech-receives-34k-for-school-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/04\/06\/monty-tech-receives-34k-for-school-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Monty Tech receives $34K for school safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><b>Staff reports<\/b><\/div>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School is one of 14 Massachusetts school districts to receive a grant to bolster school safety and enhance violence prevention efforts. The Healey-Driscoll administration has announced the award of more than $570,000 to the districts. The federal funding supports the development and operation of school threat assessments and crisis intervention teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Student, Teachers and Officers Preventing School Violence Grant Program is funded through the Department of Justice\u2019s Bureau of Justice Assistance. The grant is managed and administered in Massachusetts by the Office of Grants and Research, a state agency that is part of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security. Every agency that applied for a grant received funding. In total, $570,465 in grant funds were awarded to school districts, charter schools and educational collaboratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassachusetts remains deeply committed to working with our partners across state and local agencies to ensure our schools offer a safe and healthy learning environment for our children and educators. These grants will provide the resources that school officials need to enhance safety and mitigate potential threats,\u201d said Gov. Maura Healey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese grants underscore our dedication to providing students with a safe setting to learn and grow that is free from fear and anxiety. The STOP School Violence grants help school officials to develop a violence prevention program designed to detect vulnerabilities and act before a tragedy occurs,\u201d said Lt. Gov. Kimberley Driscoll.<\/p>\n<p>Grant recipients will use their awards to conduct threat assessments and deploy crisis intervention teams. Both tactics within their larger safety strategy will strive to identify threats before they materialize, which may include threats from individuals with mental health issues, and to train students, school personnel, and local first responders to become partners in preventing school violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreventative security measures, including risk prediction and intervention strategies, are fundamental to keeping schools safe and protecting students and educators from harm. The STOP School Violence Grant Program is part of the Commonwealth\u2019s comprehensive approach to school safety that allows our youth to thrive while providing our Massachusetts families with peace of mind,\u201d said Secretary of Public Safety and Security Terrence Reidy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re best able to ensure safe schools through partnerships between schools, first responders, and other stakeholders. I\u2019m proud of my team for their work helping create and strengthen these vital partnerships. These grants are just one of the initiatives led by the Office of Grants and Research that support the safety of our youth and communities,\u201d said OGR Executive Director Kevin Stanton.<\/p>\n<p>Monty Tech received a $34,200 STOP School Violence grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School is one of 14 Massachusetts school districts to receive a grant to bolster school safety and enhance violence prevention efforts. The Healey-Driscoll administration has announced the award of more than $570,000 to the districts. The federal funding supports the development and operation of school threat assessments and crisis intervention teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}