Welcome to Safe Passages

Safe Passages is a Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Federal grant-funded program.

The goal of this initiative is to enhance the collaboration between the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), San Francisco (SF) Police Department, SF Juvenile Probation Department, and SF Department of Public health/Community Behavioral Health Services to promote:

• Safe School Environments
• Healthy Child and Youth Development
• Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention
• Mental Health Services for students and their families
• Academic Achievement

Participating school sites:

• Child Development Programs
• A.P. Giannini Middle School (MS)
• Francisco MS
• Hoover MS
• James Lick MS
• Visitacion Valley MS
• Civic Center Secondary County Community School
• Hilltop County Community High School

Successful Implementation of Evidence-based Programs:

• Student Mentor Program
• Safe School Ambassadors
• Youth Outreach Workers
• Second Step
• Project Alert
• Toward No Drug Abuse
• Brief Intervention Sessions