School-Community Collaboration
This list has 205 programs
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| The leadership Academy is a mentoring and enrichment program that focuses on providing a series of structured educational activities to young boys and girls in grades six through twelve from the DeKalb County School system. Through structured educational activities, these students learn essential pe... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Schools like AAA are challenging reform efforts like no other time in recent history. AAA and other dropout intervention and recovery schools would like to advance the notion of credit flexibility over Carnegies Units as a primary unit of measurement for credit attainment. Credit flexibility assum... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Academy of Creative Education (ACE) is a nationally recognized non-traditional non-punitive model high school that provides at-risk youth with varied options and opportunities to successfully graduate. Since 1991 (ACE) has assisted over 4,000 high school students in graduating. Educators use i... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| Accelerated Learning Academies are designed to accelerate student learning through high expectations, research-based instructional strategies and community collaboration. Accelerated Learning Academies take what is usually reserved for gifted and talented children and share it with all students.
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Many schools serve at-risk students by remediating them, which often involves less challenging curricula and lowered expectations. Accelerated Schools take the opposite approach, they offer enriched curricula and instructional programs. Members of the school community work together to transform ever... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Since 2001 ACE Learning Centers has been helping students at risk of dropping out of school become high school graduates. ACE is dedicated to achievement, commitment, and excellence. ACE is a unique, nontraditional school that has successfully helped thousands of at-risk students graduate high schoo... |
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| Prevention | Limited Evidence |
| An Achievable Dream (AAD) is a dream shared collectively by many, many individuals, organizations and businesses to help children of poverty. AAD is a nonprofit, year-round, extended day public school borne out of its founder's belief that all children can learn and succeed regardless of their socio... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Admission Possible is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping promising, low-income young people prepare for and earn admission to college. Our mission is to identify low-income high school students with the potential and motivation for college and then to provide them with four critical servi... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Launched in 1984 in one of the Children's Aid Society's (CAS) community centers in Harlem, the program practices a holistic approach aiming to empower youth, help them develop a desire for a productive future, and aid young people in improving their sexual literacy and their understanding of the con... |
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| After School Matters (ASM) is a Chicago based nonprofit organization that provides high school students with a variety of opportunities for work-based and project-based learning through paid internships in the arts, technology, sports, communications, and other fields. The mission of ASM is to... |
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| This program is an example of a district's commitment to provide targeted services to students who are at risk of not completing high school. The program in the Agua Fria High School District serves students in all four high schools: Agua Fria, Desert Edge, Millenium and Verrado. Through the grant, ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Nogales High School program targets students who have not passed the AIMS on the first attempt. Much of the funding is geared toward providing extended-time opportunities in the form of classes and/or tutoring, adult mentoring, the purchase of supplemental materials geared toward struggling stud... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The ALAS Dropout Prevention Model and ALAS Resilience Builder have been rigorously tested. These programs have been shown to increase school grades and credits. Both programs have been proven effective with special education students, English language learners and students from low-income communitie... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
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| There are thousands of high school dropouts in America, and all have the ability to graduate and earn a diploma. Alternatives Unlimited (AU) helps them "drop back in" with a program that fits their schedule and their needs. Mission Statement: To assist public school districts by providing innovativ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The America's Choice School Design is a comprehensive, research based design for grades K-12. It was developed with one goal in mind; to make sure all but the most severely handicapped students reacch an internationally benchmarked standard of achievement in ELA and mathematics by the time they grad... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| The American Diploma Project (ADP) is an Achieve initiative created to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared to face the challenges of work and college. The ADP Network includes 35 states dedicated to the same goal. ADP is designed to ensure that all states: align high school s... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Apex Learning provides a range of core curriculum for at risk students, credit recovery, alternative education, remediation/intervention, literacy, summer school, distance learning, and acceleration. Programs include digital curriculum, professional development, support, and if desired, instruction ... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center Inc. is an independent (charter) district that operates on four campuses. The AAEC schools offer a superior academic program that meets students where they are academically and socially, and prepares them for college. AAEC offers advanced coursework, comprehens... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The AT&T/JA Worldwide Job Shadow is committing 400,000 employee volunteer hours to reach 100,000 students in grades 9-12. The program will bring students into the world of business through classroom instruction followed by on-site mentoring in which students get to interact with a wide range of AT&T... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| A central feature of ATLAS is the "pathway": the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment across a preK-12 feeder pattern, from which challenging learning experiences for students emerge. The pathway represents a commitment to providing continuity for students from preschool to high scho... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Indian Oasis program coordinates multiple services for students before, during, and after the regular school day, six days a week. Students attend regular high school classes during the day, then participate in clubs, after-school tutoring, the MESA science program, career and personal counselin... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Bath County Graduation Success Academy, GSA, is a program developed by Superintendent, DPP, and the Bath County Board of Education. The program was developed to target at-risk students in the Bath County School District in grades 7-12. In the 2007-08 school year Bath County had upwards of 30 s... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Insufficient Evidence |
| BeauCARE believes the future and progress of our community parallels that of our families. We provide opportunities in personal growth and development through recreational educational and advocacy programs for resident of all ages in the Beauregard Parish area of southwest Louisiana. BeauCARE believ... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. We believe that in order to sustain successful schools ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Big Picture Learning's mission is to lead vital changes in education, both in the United States and internationally, by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of the greater community. We believe that in order to sustain successful schools ... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| In the world of high school education, Boston Day and Evening Academy is truly extraordinary. An alternative public charter high school located in Roxbury, BDEA is open 12 hours a day in order to serve any Boston Public School student who is overage for high school, who has had trouble with attenda... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Boulder Preparatory High School is currently being evaluated based on: Academic Achievement, Academic Growth, Post-Secondary Readiness and Student Engagement. Over the last 15 years, 100% of our graduates have been accepted to college with over 60% matriculation rate. The graduating classes have ave... |
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| Currently Box Elder School offers after school tutoring 5 nights per week. Certified teachers are available for students to get help in any subject or students can arrange to make up credit during this time. Elementary tutoring is focused on reading and math. 2 nights per week the shop is open f... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Brooklyn Generation School is a unique school, in its second year of operation. It is the first school to put the Generation Schools' model into practice. This very positive partnership allows students to benefit greatly from small-group instruction and a longer academic year. Students enter the... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Buena High School Alternative Learning Center offers an array of educational programs to high school students. Its mission is to reduce the number of students that drop out of school prior to graduation. The center is located on the campus of Buena High School in a new facility designed to creat... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| The California Mentor Foundation (CMF) was founded in 1998 to provide a unified, collective voice for California's youth mentoring programs. CMF focuses on four critical areas essential to the success of each youth mentoring program: building public awareness of mentoring; securing financial support... |
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| Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| A Career Academy is a school within a school that links students with peers, teachers, and community partners in a disciplined environment, fostering academic success and mental and emotional health. Originally created to help inner-city students stay in school and obtain meaningful occupational exp... |
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| Career Choices is an academically-based curriculum repackaged in a thematic format to address the developmental needs of the early adolescent. Designed for use in a semester or year-long Freshman Transition course in either the 8th or 9th grade, students learn a critical decision-making process that... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| Our Career Pathing Breakthrough program is a comprehensive system that provides a step-by-step process and proven methods for developing a clear career path for the teenage population. The self-exploration modules will provide the opportunity to determine specific elements of the student's ideal ca... |
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| Mentoring Children of Prisoners: Caregiver's Choice is designed to assist children faced with the challenge of having an incarcerated parent by providing access to mentoring relationships. Mentoring benefits both children and their families. Many families report that mentoring - when added to core s... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| CASASTART brings together three important institutions - a social service or health agency, the local law enforcement department and local schools - in order to foster healthy development among high-risk, 8-13 year-old youth and their families, and to help reduce the sale of illegal drugs and relate... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Our mission is to deliver unparalleled academic excellence through character development and leadership. This is done by successfully engaging parent and community involvement and utilizing the best available teaching methods and strategies. Special focus is placed on those geared toward the urban c... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| The Acceleration Program has operated since 2004-05 to provide alternative learning environments for students who have been retained and as a result, are now older than normal for their grade level. During 2006-07 and 2007-08, the Acceleration Program has consisted of three levels: the Primary Grade... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Chugach School District (CSD) is a turn-around story, emerging from crisis to success. Challenged with serving children/families in a large geographic area with vast expanses, they have emerged a leader in education reform. CSD's innovative "Voyage to Excellence" (VTE) Program has an established re... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| A growing national network of afterschool education programs for students in the middle grades. The programs complement classroom learning by engaging students in hands on learning projects led by adult volunteers and supported by staff of professional educators.... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Clark Pleasant Academy (CPA) is the first school of its kind in Johnson County. Located just west of Whiteland Community High School, CPA offers a fresh alternative for students on their educational path towards graduation. CPA utilizes the PLATO Learning Network to accomplish mastery of required... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| This is an alternative high school separate from the traditional high school, but on the high school/middle school campus. It serves predominately students from Clarke Community (95% +) which has a total enrollment of about 350 at-risk students in grades 9-12. There are the equivalent of two full-... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Co-nect helps schools work through a structured process of school improvement, the ultimate focus of which is high quality teaching and learning. Co-nect's training and consulting services are supported by a suite of diagnostic tools, on-line learning modules, and other teaching resources.
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. Its integrated focus on academics, health and social services, youth and community development and community engagement leads to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier c... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The fundamental philosophy of CES is that each school community determines how best to implement 10 common principles in their school. These principles are: learning to use one's mind well, less is more, depth over coverage, goals apply to all students, personalization, student as worker, teacher as... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Ponderosa High School and Tse' Yatto' High School (referred to in this report in conjunction with Ponderosa) are regional accommodation schools under the direction of the Coconino County School Superintendent. The program provides an alternative path to a high school diploma to students who would ot... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The mission of Colorado Youth for a Change is to solve the dropout crisis in Colorado. By incorporating national research and local data analysis, CYC is charting a path to fulfill the Governor's challenge of cutting the dropout rate in half in Colorado by 2017. CYC works collaboratively with scho... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Come Back Kids is a program that offers prevention/intervention services to students of all ages who wish to re-enroll in an educational program. Studente high school graduation requirements/credits Prepare for the General Educational Development (G.E.D.) Earn high school and college crs who have fa... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership offers a variety of programs aimed at bringing together parents, teachers, community members, and school administrators for training, information, and experiences that help them work as partners to raise student achievement. The purpose of CIPL is to:... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Communities and Schools for Success (CS²) is a Massachusetts-based educational initiative that seeks to transform the educational experience for those young people who are most under-served and disconnected from traditional educational and career paths. Started in 1993, CS² is managed by Commonwealt... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| In the span of a little more than 30 years, Communities In Schools has become one of the nation's leading dropout prevention organization. We have a unique model that positions a coordinator inside schools to assess needs and deliver necessary resources that remove barriers to success. Our mission i... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| School is not the only place where students learn. They learn in a variety of environments, including libraries, museums, workplaces, and their homes. Community for Learning links the school to these and other institutions, including health, social services, and law enforcement agencies.
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| Prevention | Limited Evidence |
| Complete High School Maize, the alternative learning program for USD 266, began in 1999. The mission of this program is to serve those students who need a different learning environment than the traditional school setting. Because of the size of this program, where sixty students are served by eig... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Connect program located in Horry County Schools in South Carolina, makes it possible for over-age, at-risk students to graduate from high school in three years with the marketable skills that employers are seeking. These students meet the same diploma requirements and take the same standardized ... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Coordinated Career Academic Education (CCAE) and Project Success (PS) are support services designed for students from special populations as identified in the Federal Carl D. Perkins legislation. Through participation in a CCAE and/or PS program, students who are identified as at-risk of dropping ou... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| Coping and Support Training (CAST) is a school-based prevention program that targets young people in either middle school or high school. CAST is a 12-session, small group skills training intervention designed to enhance personal competencies and social support resources. CAST may be implemented a... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Many people say that knowledge is changing so fast that what students learn today will soon be outdated. While current events and technology are constantly changing, there is nevertheless a body of lasting knowledge that should form the core of a Preschool-Grade 8 curriculum. Such solid knowledge in... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Creating Lasting Family Connections is a program designed for parents and youth which offers training modules for both audiences. The program is designed to: improve communication and conflict resolution skills; build coping mechanisms to resist negative social influences; practice effective refusal... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| CUNY Prep is committed to developing life-long learners who have the academic, personal, and social skills necessary for higher education, expanded life opportunities, and active participation in community and civic affairs. The program offers out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 18 an opp... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Daylight/Twilight Program serves overage students ages 16 and older who are under-credited and have academic, behavioral, social, or personal problems. The program offers a flexible schedule that allows students to attend school in 4-hour sessions from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The program focus... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Pascagoula School District's DESTINATION GRADUATION! program is part of the district's five-year strategic plan to raise high school graduation rates to 100 percent. The district has an extensive community awareness campaign that includes commercial, billboards, yard signs, bumper stickers, butt... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Detroit City High School was established in 1991 as an extended year alternative school for students who exhibited drop-out behaviors or had dropped out. Our mission is to educate and empower students and their families. Top priorities for the school include: Providing academic foundations on whi... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Diploma Plus (DP) schools are small alternative high schools that integrate dropout recovery and prevention programs with college- and career-readiness initiatives. As stated by the program's mission statement, Diploma Plus seeks to create small high schools that "incorporate a supportive scho... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed teaching tasks. It is based on the theory that clear instruction eliminating misinterpretations can greatly improv... |
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| Dobbins Dollar Attendance Incentive Program is to provide an incentive for students who missed 15 or more days the previous school year. The students are given a Dobbin Dollar each day they attend school. At the beginning of the following month, the students can attend the Dobbins Dollar Market and ... |
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| Prevention | Limited Evidence |
| The Henderson is a small elementary school serving children from early childhood through Grade 5. Our students are from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and ability backgrounds. We are an inclusive school. Students who have disabilities learn in general education classrooms with their non disabled pee... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Dubuque's Reengagement Center reaches out to all drop-outs in our community. We target over-age/under-credit students and connect them with our GED program. Students who have credits in place and can achieve a diploma prior to aging out are also targeted for placement back into a diploma program. Ou... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The program has a three-pronged approach. Prong one is the Freshman Academy, which served a subset of the freshman students in years one and two of the grant. The goal of the program is to catch students as they enter high school and create a positive, supportive and challenging experience for them ... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| An initiative of the American Honda Education Corporation, a 501(c)3, a nonprofit subsidiary of the American Honda Motor Company. A full-scholarship high school for students and a low-cost professional development center for adults. Located in the mountain resort community of Estes Park, Colorado, ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| Early College High Schools (ECHS) are small schools that aim to directly connect all students with a college experience and allow them to earn high school and college credits simultaneously. They offer all students the chance to earn both a high school diploma and an associate's degree, or com... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The EOS program is intended to serve the needs of three distinct groups of at risk high school students by providing a highly structured and supportive alternative instructional setting, an alternative instructional delivery system (on-line), and tiered (based on the degree of student needs) support... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Nationally accredited high school completion program that can be completed online or through correspondence. Online preparation courses in all subject matter.
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Student-Owned Enterprises offer at-risk youth the opportunities of entrepreneurship with the responsibilities of business ownership. A learning community of enterprising practice creates the context for real business ownership. A class or club invests in, operates and manages a simple retail b... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| FAST is an award-winning prevention/early intervention after-school program that has dramatically changed the learning climate at schools and communities all over the world. The program was founded by researcher and social worker, Dr. Lynn McDonald in 1988 and has been implemented in over 2000 commu... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| The mission of Families4Change, Inc. is to provide direct services to youth at-risk and their families. In addition it provides professional training for communities interested in implementing the Family Solutions Program as an approach in resolving problems of youth.
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| Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| The Family Solutions Program (FSP) is a family therapy program that employs a multiple-family group intervention (MFGI) format. The format is similar to an individual or family intervention in that it targets specific risk factors for change. But the MFGI format has an additional dimension in that t... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Family & Community Partnership Office of the Federal Way School District was established to give family members more district, school and state level opportunities to partner, support, design and help monitor the effectiveness of the district's efforts to raise student achievement through a comm... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Forest Lake Area Learning Center (ALC)is a Minnesota State Approved Alternative Program within the Forest Lake Area Schools. Student served are from the Forest Lake district as well as surrounding area, are in grades K-12+ and meet one of 11 state 'at risk' criteria. The ALC has programs runnin... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Gateway Academy is a voluntary alternative school that provides opportunities toward academic completion of a high school diploma. GAHS serves students of the Mayfield City and Graves County School Districts and qualified candidates of Western Kentucky. Our goal is to work with students and their fa... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The mission of Good Shepherd Services is to surround at-risk New York City youth and their families with a web of supports that promote a safe passage to self-sufficiency. To achieve our mission, we lead in the development of innovative youth development programs; provide quality, effective service... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The High School Graduation Coach initiative, championed by Governor Sonny Perdue during the 2006 legislative session, allows each of Georgia's high schools and middle schools to employ a coach. This is the first program of its kind to be implemented statewide. The coach's primary responsibility is t... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Graduation Odyssey Dropout Intervention/Prevention Program offers an organized, relationship based approach to drop out prevention that ensures all students graduate from high school with the knowledge and twenty first century skills to be both college and career ready. Using the Check and Conne... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| We believe that all students can learn and succeed in high school. With early identification of students at risk for academic failure, interventions are put into place to reduce the number of future dropouts. Students are provided many options and interventions to meet their individual educational n... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Puente Project is a national award-winning program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally underrepresented students. Its mission is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in four-year c... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| High Schools That Work is an effort-based school improvement initiative founded on the conviction that students can master rigorous academic and career/technical studies if school leaders and teachers create an environment that motivates students to make the effort to succeed. It is the nation's ... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| HighScope Educational Research Foundation is an independent nonprofit research, development, training, and public outreach organization with headquarters in Ypsilanti, Michigan. HighScope's mission is to lift lives through education. We envision a world in which all educational settings use active p... |
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| Prevention | Insufficient Evidence |
| The HighScope preschool curriculum is a coordinated set of educational ideas and practices based on the development of young children, initially developed by David P. Weikart and his colleagues in the 1960s. The HighScope Educational Research Foundation continues to develop and apply the model throu... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection is a nationally-recognized youth development program that provides students at-risk of dropping out of school with 360-degree support, at home, at school, and on-the-job. Professional, year-round, full-time, school-based Youth Advocates are paired with students g... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Summer Hoop of Learning program is designed to provide Native American 9th through 12th grade students the opportunity to earn college credits while in high school. The program will consist of a five week summer session offering one orientation course, an academic course and one elective course... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| The mission of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation - Los Angeles is to help underprivileged children become productive citizens by providing a long-term program of academic enhancement, mentoring, and cultural enrichment with an assured opportunity for higher education. The "Have a Dream" movement be... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Internship Quest is a comprehensive program that enables young people to develop the skills and competencies required for the 21st century workforce. Internship Quest can expedite the time-consuming, labor-intensive process of building an internship program by offering schools a complete package of ... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Although nearly half (45%) of Ira Harbison students are English language learners who speak Spanish or Tagalog as their first language, students routinely test above California state averages. A key element in the school's success appears to be its intensive English language instruction, which embed... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Job Corps is a free education and training program that helps young people learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED, and find and keep a good job. For eligible youth at least 16 years of age, Job Corps provides the all-around skills needed to succeed in a career and in life.
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| Prevention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Career Plus makes it possible for students to attend the Career Technical Center all day. Students are transported from their home high school to the CTE Centers where they take their academics one-half the day and enroll into a Technical Program the other half of the day. Lunch is provided and tra... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Kane County Regional Office of Education offers a variety of programs designed to reduce the number of dropouts as well as dropout retrieval. Programs include truancy intervention/prevention, regional safe schools, homeless and the school program in juvenile detention facility. The truancy/int... |
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| The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a national network of free, open enrollment public schools. KIPP schools emphasize a rigorous academic curriculum and a culture of high expectations and college-going. KIPP aims to provide students "the knowledge, skills, and character needed to succeed... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Students attending Riverside take courses that are approved by the Board of Education, leading to a L'Anse Creuse diploma. New high school course expectations, as outlined by the State of Michigan, have been integrated into Riverside's course offerings. These courses, taught using alternative teac... |
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| LA's BEST - Better Educated Students for Tomorrow - is a nationally recognized after school education, enrichment and recreation program serving more than 28,000 children with the greatest needs and fewest resources throughout the City of Los Angeles. LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program provid... |
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| Lamar Academy is home to a diverse group of at-risk students who have assumed a greater responsibility for their education by choosing to attend an accelerated, self-paced alternative school that offers flexible scheduling. Our student body is composed of Options High School and the 8th grade Trans... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP) is a school- and community-based program for high school students (ages 14 to 19) that enhances youths' internal strengths and resiliency while preventing involvement in substance use and violence. The program includes resiliency groups that are held durin... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School (LMACS) is a public school catering to students who have left school prior to graduation and those at risk of dropping out. LMACS generally enrolls students 16 to 21 years of age. Graduates of the school must take and pass the 10th grade MCAS exams in math, E... |
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| The Marlboro County HS Army JROTC programs mission statement is to Motivate Students to be Better Citizens. We fulfill this mission by the use of our United States Army JROTC curriculum: Leadership Education and Training. In conjunction with after school programs, peer mentoring, and service lear... |
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| Maritime and Science Technology Academy, commonly referred to as MAST Academy is a public high school in Miami, Florida. MAST Academy is a magnet school under the governance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools . The school principal is Thomas C. Fisher II, appointed in September 2006. The academ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Mavericks High School Model is designed to provide superior timely student analytics and real-time continuous monitoring of student performance. Comprehensive data are gathered during the student admissions process and on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to better inform educational and... |
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| For more than a decade, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership has been working to expand the world of quality mentoring. MENTOR believes that, with the help and guidance of an adult mentor, each child can discover how to unlock and achieve his or her potential. MENTOR is widely acknowledged as the n... |
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| The OnTrack program was initiated in 2002 by a MPS district administrator who recognized the need to coordinate existing services to reach students who were not taking advantage of these services (evening school, credit recovery, summer school.) The design of the program was adjusted to meet the req... |
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| Middle College High Schools are secondary schools, authorized to grant diplomas in their own name, located on college campuses across the nation. The Middle Colleges are small, with usually 100 or fewer students per grade level and they provide a rigorous academic curriculum within a supportive and ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The LBC program is impacting students, teachers and parents alike. The positive environment surrounding the program is helping youth put a priority on education and personal goals for success. Students are comfortable working with certified teachers and youth experts aimed as helping them improve ... |
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| The Midwestern Prevention Project (MPP), also known as Project STAR, is a comprehensive, community-based, multifaceted program for adolescent drug abuse prevention that targets the entire population of middle school students. Its ultimate goal is to prevent or reduce gateway substance use (alcohol, ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Migrant Education Advisor Program (MEAP) is a collaborative advising program in its thirteenth year of existence, between the Office of Migrant Education, the Masters in Counseling Program at Sonoma State University, and participating school districts. MEAP was modeled after a similar program... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| MECHS is an evening, self-paced, public, high school that grants regular Georgia High School Diplomas. In addition to our full-time students, we serve a population of students who take a class or classes with us part time and transfer the completed credit(s) back to the high school in which they ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| We are a nontraditional state chartered special school whose mission is to work with nontraditional students in an evening setting, with individualized instruction and positive reinforcement. High School graduation is the goal for all students.... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, a preventive rather than remedial at-risk youth program, targets participants who are unemployed, drug-free and law-free high-school dropouts, 16 to 18 years of age. The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program is a community-based program that leads, train... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) is a comprehensive and flexible family-based program for substance-abusing adolescents or those at high risk for substance use and other problem behaviors. MDFT is a multicomponent and multilevel intervention system. There is also a substance abuse prevention ... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) is a cost effective alternative to group or residential treatment, incarceration, and hospitalization for adolescents who have problems with chronic antisocial behavior, emotional disturbance, and delinquency. MFTC is based on the Social Learning Theory ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| New Visions for Public Schools, founded in 1989, is the largest education reform organization dedicated to improving the quality of education children receive in New York City's public schools. Working with the public and private sectors, New Visions develops programs and policies to energize teachi... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Nogales High School designed its AIMS IDP project to leverage the grant funds to extend and expand existing programs and activities while providing additional support for students at risk, thus planning for sustainability. Therefore, the grant intersects with other programs and activities at the sch... |
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| Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) provides first-time, low-income mothers of any age with comprehensive home visitation services from public health nurses during pregnancy and the first two years after the birth of the child. Program delivery is primarily through home visitation, but also depends on a ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The first phase of this program included training and facilitating school based Dropout Prevention Teams at the selected middle/high school, reviewing both district and school level policies, collecting and analyzing data. The second phase employed data driven decisions to select target areas,and a... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| In 1982, the Oklahoma State Department of Education began pilot programs to address a growing concern for the number of high school student leaving without a diploma. By 1992, the state increased funding to alternative education programs across the state and established an evaluation requirement. ... |
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| The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is a comprehensive research-based school program designed to prevent and reduce bully/victim problems among students in elementary, middle, and junior high schools (grades 3-10). School staff members are largely responsible for introducing and implementing the ... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Ombudsman is an alternative education program for at-risk students. Ombudsman gives middle and high students who are at risk of not graduating an accredited alternate route to earn a high school diploma. Ombudsman partners with public school districts to educate students in grades six through 12 who... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Opportunity School was recognized as a School of Promising Practices by Ohio's Governor Strickland in the commissioned report, "Supporting Student Success: A New Learning Day in Ohio," in August 2008. The Opportunity School program was developed in 1997 and served students in grades 7-10 that w... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Wokini's goal and purpose is to promote educational credit recovery, through character building, for students who have barriers to education. The objectives of the program are: 1) facilitate credit recovery and academic success, 2) explore educational opportunities for all students, 3) promote posit... |
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| Prevention | Limited Evidence |
| ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop 21st century skills. It includes the following: a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a compe... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Dropout Assessment and Prevention System (DAPS) is a comprehensive, module based system. It contains three components: the prediction and needs assessment of potential dropouts; consulting and training support to develop a multi-tiered intervention solution for the students who have been ident... |
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| PIQE was founded on two main principles; that every parent loves their child and wants a better future for them; and, that every child can learn and learning is a natural process. Our sixteen years of service, dialogue and learning from parents has reinforced and confirmed these important principles... |
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| PLTI has these goals: Help parents become the leaders they would like to be for children and families; Expand the capacity of parents as change agents for children and families; Develop communities of parents within regions of the state that will support one another in skills development and suc... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| PLL combines group therapy and family therapy to treat children and adolescents who have severe emotional and behavioral problems.
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Positive Action, a K-12 program, aims to promote character development, academic achievement, and social-emotional skills and to reduce disruptive and problem behavior. The program is based on the philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you think and do positive actions, and there is alway... |
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| PPP offers Implementation Training to schools on creating and implementing a parent involvement plan; home visiting; Transition to Kindergarten; Parent Involvement in the School Care site. We also offer staff development workshops on parent involvement including reaching the hard to reach, recruiti... |
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| In partnership with schools, colleges, companies, and community-based organizations, Preservation LINK provides a family of media arts education programs to foster critical thinking, academic engagement, and college/career exploration. These programs include Point of View, an elementary school photo... |
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| Prevention Not Suspension is an alternative high school program for high-risk youth grade 9-12. We aim to help youth on suspension and those in danger of suspension continue their education. We provide both academic support as well as social/emotional learning.
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Mission Statement for The Technology Academy: To provide an educational and career opportunity for middle and high school students, ages 13 to 21, who are out of high school without having earned a diploma, and/or who have decided they cannot succeed in a regular high school setting after attempting... |
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| The Pro-Vision All Male HISD Middle Charter School is an innovative single-sex middle school that targets young men in grades 5 through 8 who are experiencing academic difficulty, behavioral challenges, and other issues that have not allowed them to have success in a traditional school setting. Sinc... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Process Communication Model(R) shows educators how to reach and teach every student, how to communicate with each of six different personality types in their perceptions and preferred channels of communication. It gives educators a blueprint to individualize instruction to meet each student's m... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The program shows teachers, mentors and parents how to individualize the way they communicate with, motivate, and establish relationships with every student. When they do this, students are more interested in school, are more motivated to learn, study, and stop their disruptive behaviors. They feel... |
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| Project COFFEE (Co-Operative Federation For Educational Experience) was created in 1979 in Massachusetts with the purpose of meeting the academic, occupational, social, emotional, and employability needs of high school students considered at-risk. It is typically described as an alternative occupati... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Project Discovery Transition System is a series of hands-on kits designed to provide middle, high school and young adults with a realistic approach to career education. Students of all levels experience over 72 career areas and over 3,000 specific validated job tasks with real tools of the trad... |
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| Project GRAD is a comprehensive dropout prevention and college attendance program that works with high schools and their feeder schools to implement multiple reforms. Interventions are implemented that focus on classroom management, student performance, parent involvement, and graduation and college... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Project Reconnect was recognized by the National Center for School Engagement in its "21 Ways to Engage Students in School". The Project Reconnect program is designed to decrease truancy and increase graduation rates. The implementation of Project Reconnect has resulted in 68% reduction in truancy... |
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| Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) is an interactive school-based program designed to help high school youth resist substance use. The program teaches participants increased coping and self-control skills by making them aware of misleading information that facilitates drug use. The program motivate... |
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| Project Towards No Tobacco Use (Project TNT) is a comprehensive, classroom-based curriculum designed to prevent or reduce tobacco use in 5th through 9th grade youth. It is designed to counteract several different causes of tobacco use simultaneously, because the behavior is determined by multiple ca... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Puente Project is a national award-winning program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally underrepresented students. Its mission is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in four-year c... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) is designed to help at-risk youth make a "quantum leap" up the ladder of opportunity through academic, developmental, and community service activities, coupled with a sustained relationship with a peer group and a caring adult, offered to them over their four ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Reconnecting Youth (RY) is a proven, award-winning program that helps high-risk youth achieve in school and decrease drug use, anger, depression, and suicidal behavior. Designed for students aged 14-18, RY is a high school-based curriculum that uses small group skills training to enhance personal co... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Reconnection Services is a collaborative effort of many departments in Portland Public Schools, the Police Department, and an emerging group of community based social services. Reconnection Services is a streamlined referral process for students who are trying to reengage with their education. R... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| RENEW is designed to specifically address the needs of youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, including the need for self-determined planning and service provision, employment and other real-world experiences linked to learning, flexible service provision based on each students' needs, men... |
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| The Responsive Classroom is an approach to elementary teaching that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. The goal is to enable optimal student learning. Created by classroom teachers and backed by evidence from independent research, the Responsive ... |
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| River Cities High School (RCHS) is an alternative school for students identified as at-risk to fail to graduate from High School. Success at RCHS is based on the concept that students need to make individual changes to improve their lives. Students work through a process of change as part of the cur... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| In 2005-06, the school began a CTE program focusing on medical careers and added ninth and tenth grades. The ADE grant helped them to transition into the CTE program. The philosophy behind the change was connecting a diploma with a career and future earnings. Their focus now is to help students thin... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The dropout prevention grant at S.T.A.R. supplements its many ongoing activities and its purpose is twofold. The first is to provide research-based strategies for students in the S.T.A.R. Alternative High School to improve academic achievement and reduce dropout rates among young people with signifi... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| SafeMeasures is a student-led collaborative action research process that has been used in K-12 schools across the country to help schools lower dropout rates, reduce bullying, improve school safety, prevent violence, encourage inspired teaching, and enhance student leadership and learning. The Safe ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The mission of the Sarah Pyle Academy for Academy Intensity is to provide a select student population with an innovative, challenging and technologically advanced non-traditional high school environment that will assist each student to achieve the ultimate goal of earning a high school diploma and b... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children) is a community- and school-based program that helps families manage educational and child development in inner-city communities where children are at high risk for substance abuse and other problem behaviors. The program aims to help children m... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| Select Media is producer, publisher distributor of award-winning and evidence-based programs. Our mission is to create and disseminate materials effective in promoting positive health behaviors among communities at-risk. Our curriculum and media materials are based on extensive research conducted by... |
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| Our staff at Sierra Vista Academy (an alternative school) is committed to maintaining a proactive environment in which students who have not achieved success in the traditional environment feel valued, secure, and self confident. We serve students who have a documented history of disruptive behavior... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Simon Youth Foundation has established joint ventures with public school districts, resulting in 25 Education Resource Centers (ERCs) operating in 13 states throughout the nation. Most of the ERCs are located in Simon malls, although a few are in other facilities such as malls formerly owned by Sim... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Fast Forward Center primarily serves youth, ages 16-21, who have previously dropped out of, or are not regularly attending high school. The goal of the Fast Forward Center is to return the youth to high school, help them achieve proficiency, earn a high school diploma, and have a positive place... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| SMARTteam is a multimedia program designed for universal prevention with students in grades 5-9. Its primary setting of use is in schools, with students using the software independently, either alone or in pairs. The modules can be used in sequence or independently, because key concepts are reinf... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Skills, Opportunity, and Recognition (SOAR) program has its roots in the Social Development Model, which posits that positive social bonds can reduce antisocial behavior and delinquency. It is a multidimensional intervention designed for the general population and high-risk children who are atte... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Southern Dropout Prevention Alliance has been instrumental in helping at-risk students graduate from high school and assisting schools with increasing graduation rates. Since 2005 85% of the 1024 students selected for our program were admitted to college. The other 13% were able to gain employme... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| The Star Academy Program is a school-within-a-school for disengaged students (typically overage 8th/9th grade students) who have previously failed one or more grades. Students engage in non-traditional instructional methods to complete two grades in one year. The program employs standards-based c... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The Steubenville School District was once located in a thriving city, but due to unemployment and losing population has one of the highest populations of low- income and minority students in the state. This has led to changes in its operating system during the past 10 years. All of the elementary sc... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| Unique to our program is our dedication and approach to the dropout problem. Street School is the only alternative education school of choice in the Tulsa metropolitan area. Our comprehensive program includes both education and counseling; two critical ingredients for success that turn students ar... |
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| The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a family skills training program that involves weekly classes for children ages 3-5, 6-11, and 12-16 and their families. The program uses family systems and cognitive behavioral approaches to increase resilience and reduce risk factors. It seeks to improve... |
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| The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP 10-14) is an adaptation of the Strengthening Families Program. The video-based program aims to reduce substance use and behavior problems during adolescence through improved skills in nurturing and child management by parents and im... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| SAVE'S MISSION AND GOALS SAVE is coordinated by a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit organization, the National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere, but it is still led by students, for students. The National Association of Students Against Violence Everywhere (National SAVE) strives to dec... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The SUCCESS Program is a school-based youth services program offered year-round in Des Moines Public Schools and has been offered since the Fall of 1990. The program is predicated on the belief that students are best served when their social, emotional, and behavioral needs are met as well as their... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| Rutgers Transitional Education and Employment Management (T.E.E.M.) Gateway is a "one-stop center" that provides education and employment assistance, juvenile mentoring, and referral/support services to the most disconnected youth of New Jersey. Key target areas include Essex, Mercer, Ocean, Passaic... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| Since 1995, Take Stock in Children (TSIC) has sought to provide an effective means to end the vicious cycle of poverty, educational failure and delinquency that can lead to juvenile delinquency, youth violence, and gang activity faced by many of Florida's at-risk children. TSIC provides a comprehens... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| The Talent Development Middle Grades program provides ongoing, grade- and subject-specificteacher support and professional development; standards-based, research-based curriculum in four core subject areas; integrated extra help for students; more productive relationships through small learnin... |
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| Target New Transitions (TNT) is an on-site high school freshmen intervention that reduces Chicago's escalating drop out statistics while simultaneously providing meaningful community-based employment for highly qualified college students. TNT pairs bright college students, who are professionally tra... |
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| Prevention | Moderate Evidence |
| Wyman's Teen Outreach Program (TOP) is an evidence-based, national youth development program designed to prevent adolescent problem behaviors by helping adolescents age twelve through eighteen develop healthy behaviors, life skills, and a sense of purpose. TOP uses volunteer community service to red... |
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| The Academy is an alternative high school centrally located on the campus of the Charlotte Technical Center in Charlotte County, Florida. It serves students district wide that would otherwise not complete their high school experience. The motto for The Academy is "Whatever it Takes" for students to ... |
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| Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Academy located at Hickory Hollow is a Simon Youth Academy. It is a non-traditional school for students 17-21 who would like to earn a high school diploma. The Academy is a school with a rigorous and accelerated curriculum. Students who attend the school may earn up to 2 high school credits or m... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The purpose of the Classrooms for the Future (CFF) initiative is to transform Pennsylvania's high schools, making them more engaging and more responsive to the economic challenges presented by globalization. This high school reform initiative is designed to: enhance teaching and learning, enha... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| Corps are state and local programs engaging primarily youth and young adults (ages 16-25) in service. The majority of Corpsmembers come to Corps looking for a second chance to succeed in life. In return for their efforts, Corpsmembers receive guidance by adult leaders who serve as mentors ... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The Georgetown School is an alternative education center that provides a supportive educational environment for students (in grades 6 through 12) that are at-risk for academic failure due to issues of truancy, discipline, and poor decision making skills. The Georgetown School utilizes strong communi... |
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| The JASON Project connects students with great explorers and great events to inspire and motivate them to learn science. Our award winning curricula: Embed cutting-edge research from NASA, NOAA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Geographic Society and other leading organizations. A... |
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| The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation was created to help educators, community leaders and other interested groups reduce the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate through the creation of relevant and effective tools and resources such as the powerful InsideOut documentary and toolkit; The Choice... |
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| The National CARES Mentoring Movement has one purpose: to end the state of emergency in Black America by connecting you and other caring adults in your network to the mentoring opportunities presently in your community. The goal of National CARES is to recruit dedicated men and women who will commit... |
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| The National Network of Youth Ministries is a coalition of the nation's leading Christian youth-serving organizations and denominations collectively serving more than 100,000 churches, 250,000 adult youth workers/mentors and more than 3,000,000 teenagers. This coalition is represented in virtually e... |
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| The Odyssey School is a dynamic Expeditionary Learning community dedicated to fostering each child's unique potential and spirit of adventure through exemplary standards of character, intellectual achievement, and social responsibility. The Odyssey School is chartered by Denver Public Schools. As a ... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| The Parent-Child Home Program is a research-based and research-validated school readiness, early literacy and parenting program, which for forty years has been successfully utilizing intensive home visiting to help families challenged by poverty, limited education, homelessness, recent immigration, ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| The Partnership for Results is an innovative quasi-governmental entity dedicated to promoting the positive social, emotional, and educational development of youth and their families. Directed by leaders of public education, mental health, social services, health, and law enforcement agencies in Cayu... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| The School Archive Project is simple, inexpensive ($2 per 8th grade student), and helps focus students in a credible manner onto their own futures. We now have it at both the middle school and high school level. The high school involved is setting historic graduation records due to this effort and ... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| The SEED Foundation is a national nonprofit that partners with urban communities to provide innovative educational opportunities that prepare under-served students for success in college and beyond. The SEED Foundation is a catalyst for change in urban education: it developed the SEED boarding sch... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| TLC @ Neshaminy a public alternative school serving Neshaminy School District.The program is relationship based. Students generally exhibit one or more at-risk factors. Approximately 15% of the students have IEPS. Several Once identified and after RTI has been implemented, the social worker presen... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| In New York City, there are nearly 140,000 young people who have dropped out or are significantly off-track for graduation. Good Shepherd Services' transfer high schools offer these young people a second chance to complete their educations. Based on more than 25 years of work with this population,... |
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| Intervention | Moderate Evidence |
| Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral (TF-CBT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention designed to help children, youth, and their parents overcome the negative effects of traumatic life events such as child sexual or physical abuse; traumatic loss of a loved one; domestic, school, or community violence; ... |
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| Prevention | Strong Evidence |
| Triple P draws on social learning, cognitive-behavioral and developmental theory, as well as research into risk and protective factors associated with the development of social and behavioral problems in children. The program's multi-level framework aims to tailor information, advice and prof... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| TASC is a research-based, early identification, rapid assessment, and intensive intervention truancy reduction program for at-risk children in grades K to 5, currently in 21 sites state-wide. TASC addresses the underlying causes of the truancy, which can include educational, behavioral, medical, men... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| Union Alternative School serves 120 at-risk students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is completely voluntary, and students must be willing to consistently abide by a student contract in order to maintain their positions in the program. It is not a punishment program. Instead, it is intended to... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| This program is basically designed to aid the young men and encourage academics, positive behavior and attendance through incentives, Paine College student involvement and many other contributing factors. The Judge Not Program sponsored by area Judges like Judges Caryle Overstreet, Carl Brown, Willi... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Limited Evidence |
| The University at Buffalo Liberty Partnerships Program is a premier provider of drop-out prevention services and opportunities in Buffalo and Erie County for young people enrolled in grades 5 - 12 who are at-risk of dropping out of school. Situated in the Graduate School of Education's Office For Un... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Strong Evidence |
| The Washington State Achievers (WSA) program was created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a model that integrates high school reform, early college awareness, and college advising, mentoring, scholarships, and student supports. This program targeted 16 high schools in Washington State... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| Our program serves 210 students including teen parents, adjudicated youth, credit deficient youth, youth with mental health, and youth with AODA issues. 60+% of our students are minority, 95+% receive free or reduced lunch. We offer programs for credit recovery, service learning, community outreach,... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| A team approach is the key to this positive program. Organizational change with systematic changes occurring within the existing system. A team meets every Monday morning and reviews every students' attendance, students who have withdrawn, students who have had discipline referrals. Key Question:... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Limited Evidence |
| The Wings Academy at Flagstaff High School (FHS) targets entering freshmen who are academically at risk. The program offers academic and behavioral interventions during part of the school day, while maintaining the students' freedom to explore a wide range of course offerings outside the Academy. Fl... |
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| Prevention Intervention | Strong Evidence |
| WAVE In Schools is for students in grades 9-12 who would benefit from a more supportive classroom, experiential instruction, and content relevant to success in school, careers, and life. Schools can operate a distinct WAVE class, use the advisory period, or infuse WAVE into academic classes. The... |
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| Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Moderate Evidence |
| YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high sch... |
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| Prevention Intervention Recovery/Reentry | Insufficient Evidence |
| YMC's proven group and 1:1 mentoring, extensive staff monitoring, life skills workshops, and parental involvement produces exemplary outcomes for our youth, such as improvement in school grades, graduating from high school, problem solving and communication skills, self-esteem, and staying away from... |
