The school Health Programs Department receives additional funding to implement special projects targeting specific grade levels and/or categorical health issues as well as to develop innovative programs related to integrated school and community health programs. The following section describes current special-funded projects.

• Funded by the California Department of Education, Office of School Safety and Violence Prevention.
• The overall goal is to establish community-based positive intervention programs for elementary through high school students to reduce gang involvement and gang violence.
• A GRIP coordinator is provided to school sites.
• Participating schools for the 1998-1999 school year are: Luther Burbank Middle School, James Lick Middle School, Horace Mann Middle School, Potrero Hill Middle School.

• The overall goal is to build capacity of middle schools to implement comprehensive school health programs with school-linked services.
• Three to five-person Healthy School Teams are established; middle schools are provided with regular nursing services; after-school physical activities for students are provided.
• Participating schools in 1998-1999 school year: All middle schools participate in the program.

• Funded by the California Department of Education, new planning and operational grants are awarded on a yearly basis.
• Coordinated through the School Health Programs Department, the overall goal is to establish school-site collaborative efforts among the District, Departments of Public Health, Social Services, Recreation and Park, and other community-based agencies to provide integrated services for students and their families.

• Funded by the Division of Adolescent and School Health of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from December 1997 through November 2002.
• The overall goals are: to increase the capacity of local education agencies to implement comprehensive school health programs to address HIV prevention and other important health problems and to provide ongoing technical assistance to Local Education Agency (LEA) teams after attending national training sessions.
• A series of trainings have been conducted for six-person teams from large urban areas. Participating teams have included: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Boston, Newark, Jersey City, New Orleans, San Francisco, Detroit and others.
• LEA teams develop an action plan for implementing a Comprehensive School Health Program to prevent HIV, STD's and other important health problems.

• Funded by the California Department of Education from January 1998 through June 2000.
• The overall goal is to provide prevention education, early intervention, and smoking cessation programs to reduce the use of tobacco among high school students.
• Tobacco Free Teams, may include a peer resource coordinator, are established at six high schools (Galileo, Lincoln, Washington, Lowell, McAteer, and Newcomer).
• Tobacco Free Teams develop school-site plans with strategies for the general student population, students at highest risk for tobacco use, and students currently using tobacco.

• TPPP is a five year grant developed to strengthen and expand school and community partnerships efforts that support students in delaying the onset of sexual activity and reducing the increase of teenage pregnancy.
• The overall goal of the TPPP is to increase the capacity of San Francisco's middle schools to provide effective teenage pregnancy prevention programs that support the promotion of academic achievement and positive youth development.
• The key components of the program include: implementing the "Human Sexuality: Values and Choices" curriculum, establishing student assistance programs, expanding Peer Resource Programs, establishing a case management system and providing support groups for students.

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