Maine Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act

School Incident Data:

Schools are now required to report incidence of prohibited behavior data directly to the MEDMS Safe & Drug-Free Schools Module. MEDMS is managed by the Maine Department of Education. You will use your MEDMS password to enter data into the MEDMS Safe & Drug Free Schools Module. MEDMS Login Page

If you need help with MEDMS please contact the MEDMS Helpdesk via email at medms.helpdesk@maine.gov or call at 624-6896.

INCIDENT (IPB) INFORMATION

Report on Incidence of Prohibited Behavior and Drug and Violence Prevention 2007-2008 Word | PDF

Note: All Documents in PDF format are available in printed format upon request: osa.ircosa@maine.gov

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SDFSCA DATA COLLECTION PROJECT: The Maine Safe and Drug-Free Schools Data Collection Project was a partnership between Maine's Department of Health and Human Services Office of Substance Abuse (OSA), the Maine Department of Education (DOE), and Research Triangle Institute (RTI). Created to enhance the state's capacity to gather school and district data on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) and violence incidence and prevalence, as well as related prevention programs; the project was funded by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's (USED) Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) Program from 1998-2000. A one-year extension of the grant allowed RTI and Maine to prepare the system for management and operation by OSA and Maine's Bureau of Information Services (BIS). Beginning in July 2001, the system became fully managed by OSA and BIS, with technical assistance provided by RTI during 2001 and 2002.

Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, schools were required to start reporting their incident data to the Maine Department of Education Data Management System (MEDMS). The 2006-07 school year data was the final incident data reported to the OSA IPB system.

Specifically, the data collection system is designed to (1) assist all local education agencies (LEAs) in providing data on youth violence, substance use, and related prevention activities; (2) improve the quality and completeness of data reported by schools and LEAs; (3) provide an integrated reporting system to meet federal reporting requirements for SDFSCA and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); and (4) address OSA's federal, state, and local data reporting and evaluation needs.

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