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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)

Students who have been victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) face additional challenges in the school setting. Our work is informed by survivor and youth voice with the goal of providing prevention and intervention services so that no student falls through the cracks. Using trauma informed practices, all at-risk or identified CSEC students within SCUSD have access to the following services:

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Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE)

Our goal is to equip all SCUSD students - with an intentional focus on grades 6th through 12th graders – with a better understanding of the danger of tobacco use and the impact on themselves and the community.

Through our collaboration with our partners, SCUSD students have the opportunity to engage in fun and exciting activities both on their sites and within their communities:

Foster Youth Services

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Foster Youth Services (FYS) – a group of school professionals with expertise in the both educational and social service systems – joined the SSHS family in 2018.  The FYS program is designed to serve the unique educational, social and emotional needs of children in foster care by building assets that make them resilient and ultimately successful.  FYS began operating in 1973 in SCUSD.  Our program has successfully served thousands of foster youth, markedly improving their school performance and increasing their chances for success later in life.