On March 30th, Governor Dannel Malloy visited Sarah J. Rawson School in Hartford on March 30 for a roundtable discussion and press event on the School-Based Diversion Initiative (SBDI) to reduce school-based arrests and discretionary student discipline. Rawson School reduced their court referrals 92% in the 2012-13 school year, their first year of participation in the SBDI and have continued to sustain these results. Governor Malloy was joined by Jeff Vanderploeg, along with the Hartford Mayor and School Superintendent, state agency partners and Rawson school staff to discuss the successes of the initiative. The Governor's Second Chance Society legislative package includes $1 million in each year of the biennium to expand SBDI as a promising and effective program to divert youth from the juvenile justice system and connect them with mental health services.
Click here for the Governor's press release.
Click here for the Hartford Courant article about the SBDI event.
Click here for an article in the Yale Daily News about the Governor's plan to expand SBDI.
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