Funds shall be used to implement age-appropriate drug and violence prevention programs for preschool through Grade 12. Funds may be used for the following activities that comply with the effectiveness:

• Age appropriate and developmentally based activities that:
  • Address the consequences of violence and the illegal use of drugs, as appropriate
  • Promote a sense of individual responsibility
  • Teach students that most people do not illegally use drugs
  • Teach students to recognize social and peer pressure to use drugs illegally and the skills for resisting illegal drug use
  • Teach students about the dangers of emerging drugs
  • Engage students in the learning process
  • Incorporate activities in secondary schools that reinforce prevention activities implemented in elementary schools
• Activities that involve families, community sectors (which may include appropriately trained seniors), and a variety of drug and violence prevention providers in setting clear expectations against violence and illegal use of drugs and appropriate consequences for violence and illegal use of drugs.
• Dissemination of drug and violence prevention information to schools and the community.
• Professional development and training for, and involvement of, school personnel, pupil services personnel, parents, and interested community members in prevention, education, early identification and intervention, mentoring, or rehabilitation referral, as related to drug and violence prevention.
• Drug and violence prevention activities that may include the following: Community-wide planning and organizing activities to reduce violence and illegal drug use, which may include gang activity prevention
• Acquiring and installing metal detectors, electronic locks, surveillance cameras, or other related equipment and technologies
• Reporting criminal offenses committed on school property
• Developing and implementing comprehensive school security plans or obtaining technical assistance concerning such plans
• Supporting safe zones of passage activities that ensure that students travel safely to and from school, which may include bicycle and pedestrian safety programs
• The hiring and mandatory training, based on scientific research, of school security personnel (including school resource officers) who interact with students in support of youth drug and violence prevention activities under this part that are implemented in the school
• Expanded and improved school-based mental health services related to illegal drug use and violence, including early identification of violence and illegal drug use, assessment, and direct or group counseling services provided to students, parents, families, and school personnel by qualified school-based mental health service providers
• Conflict resolution programs, including peer mediation programs that educate and train peer mediators and a designated faculty supervisor, and youth anti-crime and anti-drug councils and activities
• Developing and implementing character education programs, as a component of drug and violence prevention programs that take into account the views of parents of the students for whom the program is intended and such students, such as a program described in subpart 3 of part D of Title V
• Establishing and maintaining a school safety hotline
• Community service, including community service performed by expelled students, and service-learning projects
• Conducting a nationwide background check of each local education agency employee regardless of when hired, and prospective employees for the purpose of determining whether the employee or prospective employee has been convicted of a crime that bears upon the employee’s fitness
• Programs to train school personnel to identify warning signs of youth suicide and to create an action plan to help youth at risk of suicide
• Programs that respond to the needs of students who are faced with domestic violence or child abuse

Funds may not be used for construction costs.
P.L. 107-110 Section 115 STAT. 1749

Funds may not be used for medical services, drug treatment, or rehabilitation, except for pupil services or referral to treatment for students who are victims of, or witness to, crime or who use alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
P.L. 107-110 Section 115 STAT. 1749