They are:

Overall Partnership: by SHARE partners working together and supporting one another to enhance learning environments that are nurturing, healthy and safe; and providing leadership training to support this. 

Element 1) SafeSchool Environment: ensuring that all schools are weapon free by reviewing all student occupied school buildings to identify safety concerns and implementing safety modifications in each of the 14 school districts starting with the high priority safety concerns. 

Element 2) Alcohol and Other Drug and Violence Prevention and Early Intervention Services: by implementing the evidence based practices of the Olweus bullying prevention, Second Step Violence Prevention, Steps to Respect, and/or Project Northland; and coordinating activities with the local tobacco coalitions in each of the four counties to develop anti-smoking campaigns in the schools. 

Element 3) School and Community Mental Health Preventive and Treatment Intervention Services: by providing training to teachers and support staff to identify children at risk of mental health issues and incorporate prevention strategies, such as the Strengthening Families Program; providing funding for mental health assessments for children who do not have another means of paying for them; offering psychiatric consultation to those who work with children that have mental health issues; and continuing implementing the System of Care and Wraparound philosophies to assist families in improving relationships, parenting skills and youth resiliency.

Element 4) Early Childhood Psychosocial and Emotional Development Services: ensuring that children enter school ready to learn by using the Preschool and Early Childhood Parent Report Screener (PECFAS) at all pre-kindergarten screenings to aid in recognition of early mental health and behavioral concerns; providing preschool scholarships for families that cannot afford the tuition; increasing the number of families receiving home visiting through an expanded model of public health, education and community based staff; expanding the Incredible Years Program in each of the four counties; and utilizing Reflective Supervision for early childhood staff.

Element 5) Educational Reform: through building partnerships to support healthy environments for learning with each consortium school implementing recommended strategies to increase parental involvement in the health and safety aspects of the schools; and placing parent/school liaisons in all 14 school districts to assist in doing this.

Element 6) Safe School Policies: by each school reviewing health and safety policies to ensure that policies address coordination of services between education, mental health, and social services; and all policies related to coordination of services will be in place by the end of the first grant year and reviewed and updated annually.

A nineteen member SHARE Coordinating Council made up of one representative from each school district, a representative from the PACT for Families Collaborative, representatives from community partners (law enforcement, juvenile justice, mental health, public health) in the four counties and a parent representative from each of the four counties will oversee the SHARE Project with the assistance of the Project Director. Each school district will have a local steering committee, made up of school staff, community partners (including social services and juvenile justice), parents, students, and law enforcement to coordinate the local SHARE efforts and coordinate those efforts with the total consortium efforts. A SHARE advisor will be in each school district to support local implementation activities.