GOALS AND OUTCOMES
Goals
- Promote early identification and help for students whose personal and/or drug
problems interfere with school performance.
- Formalize an easily accessible, highly visible helping system within the school
that views student misbehavior and academic difficulty as symptoms of student
need and/or possible drug involvement.
- Increase student awareness of the school's resources and promote a school atmosphere
that encourages students to seek help.
- Teach coping skills to all students to prevent future problems.
- Increase staff awareness of the type and extent of problems currently faced by
children and youth.
- Increase staff referrals to these resources that are available within the school
for specific academic, behavioral, social, or emotional problems.
- Strengthen communication between school and parents.
- Provide educational and helping resources for parents.
- Increase interaction between school and community to provide community support and resources for youth.
- Improved attendance rates
- Decreased drop-out rates
- Decreased alcohol and other drug involvement
- Decreased disciplinary problems and suspensions
- Increased student achievement as measured by grades and achievement tests
- Increased number of students identified and assisted
- Increased staff willingness to identify and refer students
- More accurate placements in special education; reduction of special education placements
- Decreased expenditures for special education
- Increased school-parent contact and cooperation
- Increased school-community coordination of services