City administration will work with Miami Dade County Public Schools to support current student program implementation, and to identify youth drug prevention and intervention specialists to enhance parental workshop offerings through The Parent Academy at a cost not to exceed $3,000 for the 2017-18 school year to encourage parental and student participation in upcoming workshops. 

At the May 17, 2017 Commission meeting, item R9 AD provided for a discussion regarding students from Miami Beach Senior High School smoking marijuana outside the school in the morning by the Collins Canal.  The item was referred to the May 24, 2017, Neighborhood and Community Affairs Committee meeting for further discussion.   A referral was made to the Committee for Quality Education August 22, 2017 meeting, where the current status of drug and education programming was reviewed, as well as parental workshops requested by the City.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) currently has drug and alcohol education as part of the health education curriculum that is integrated into physical education classes.  All middle schools have a textbook to use when implementing the curriculum.   The below link provides curriculum resources on substance abuse prevention for grades 5 - 12:  http://pe.dadeschools.net/substanceabuseprevention.asp

Additionally, MDCPS implements a Red Ribbon Month in October and Informed Families Campaigns throughout the district.   Student Services has programs that address substance abuse through their Trust office (http://studentservices.dadeschools.net/trust/index.asp).

Current programs by grade level, although not all offered at public schools in Miami Beach, are as follows:

Elementary School

•      Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) – 5th grade curriculum Middle School

•     Drug and alcohol education is part of our health education curriculum that is integrated into physical education. All middle schools have a textbook to use when implementing the curriculum. Below is a link to all of our curriculum resources on substance abuse prevention for grades 5 - 12:

                http://pe.dadeschools.net/substanceabuseprevention.asp

•     Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) – Middle and High School High School

•     Student Services has programs that address substance abuse through their TRUST office (http://studentservices.dadeschools.net/trust/index.asp).
• Health Information Project (HIP) – High School
• Student’s Against Destructive Decision (SADD)- High School
• Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) – Middle and High School
• AAA Prom Promise Campaign- High School
• TRUST Curriculum- Middle and High School

Following discussion with MDCPS, the district will develop a Substance Abuse Prevention Parent Workshop, through The Parent Academy, for delivery during the 2017-18 school year. The curriculum will match that which is currently presented to students across the district and will include information on consequences for students as part of the materials.

The Substance Abuse Prevention Parent Workshops will be delivered at Miami Beach Senior, Nautilus Middle and Feinberg-Fisher K-8 within the first two months of the 2017-18 school year.

City administration will work with Miami Dade County Public Schools to support current student program implementation, and to identify youth drug prevention and intervention specialists to enhance parental workshop offerings through The Parent Academy at a cost not to exceed $3,000 for the 2017-18 school year to encourage parental and student participation in upcoming workshops.