A MULTICULTURAL FIVE-YEAR MASTER PLAN FOR THE REDUCTION OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG PROBLEMS IN SAN MATEO COUNTY
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III. County Organization
The San Mateo County Department of Social Services has responsibility for Children's Services, Income Maintenance, and In-Home Supportive Services, with the Department of Community Services being responsible for the Employment and Training program. Both of these departments are involved in the County's current reorganization plan, described above.
A number of city programs and not-for-profit agencies participate in the larger social services system in San Mateo County, utilizing state, county, and city funds to offer a variety of programs that provide emergency food, clothing, and shelter.
The public school system in San Mateo County consists of 23 school districts and the County Office of Education. The total enrollment for the 1990-91 school year was 79,013 students, consisting of 56,912 in grades K through 8, at 130 schools, and 22, 1 01 in grades 9 through 12, at 22 schools.
Private school enrollment includes an additional 1 1,029 students in grades K through 8, and 2,626 students in grades 9 through 12, for a total of 13,655 at 140 schools.
The community college system had a projected enrollment of 30,000 for the 1990-91 year, including 7,600 at Canada College, 14,400 at the College of San Mateo, and 7,900 at Skyline College.
The public school system provides the most centralized, structured, and far-reaching prevention-education program for children in grades K through 12. This program consists of three major pieces, that are joined in the 1991-92 County Application for Funding: Drug-, Alcohol-, and Tobacco-Use Prevention Programs. The three pieces are:
• Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE);
• Comprehensive Alcohol and Drug Prevention Education (CADPE); and
• Drug-Free Schools and Communities (DFSC).
The San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools has created a combined advisory committee for these programs, called the Local Coordinating Committee (LCC). It has a membership of forty-two officials, including the County Sheriff, Chiefs of Police of four cities, the Superintendent of Schools, the Director of Health Services, the County Alcohol and Drug Program Manager and Prevention Coordinator, the Chief of Public Health Education, the San Mateo County Manager, and representatives from the San Mateo County Office of Education, school district board members and superintendents, parents, a fire department, business, teachers, the Sheriff s Office, Boy Scouts of America, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, hospitals, and other agencies and individuals.
The San Mateo County Drug-, Alcohol-, and Tobacco-Use Prevention Programs application lists three major coals: addressing diversity, enhancing school-community collaboratives, and demonstrating impact.
The criminal justice system in San Mateo County consists of the District Attorney's Office, the Sheriff s Office, the Probation Department, the Municipal Court, the Superior Court, the Highway Patrol offices in San Francisco and Redwood City, the Police Departments of the several cities, the San Francisco Airport Police, the Narcotics Task Force, and Private Defenders (contracted through the Bar Association). The cities and the county maintain the Criminal Justice Council which was originally funded by LEAA, and later discontinued in most localities. This system addresses the impact of some 28,000 to 30,000 bookings per year, 10,000 to 15,000 of which are new bookings.
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