DROPOUT PREVENTION:

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• DROPOUT PREVENTION
• School-wide positive behavioral interventions and
  supports
• Intensive individualized school-to-career
  supports and services

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Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success
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1-5
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80-90
80-90
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Operating Principles

• Focus on behavioral competence
• Work smarter
• Use the team approach
• Use data to drive decisions
• Work to change the environment, not the people
• (Sugai Horner, 2003)

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We know that.

• The school-wide, universal system must be in
  place before you address the needs of the most
  at-risk students
• Problems seem larger than life if you dont use
  data to make your decisions
• Let the students drive the decision-making
• (their investment in succeeding will be greater
  as a result)

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SWIS DATA - FRANKLIN HIGH
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Project RENEWConceptual Framework
Interagency Collaboration
School-to Career
Youth, Family, RENEW
Self-Determination
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Goals

• High School Completion
• Employment
• Post-secondary Education
• Positive Social/Community Connections

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RENEW Strategies

• Personal Futures Planning
• Wraparound services and supports
• Flexible education services such as IEP
  planning, credit for internships, independent
  study, post-secondary courses, community service,
  and work-based learning experiences.

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Strategies (cont.)

• Interagency collaboration
• Positive social skills building through typical
  academic settings, group meetings and work-based
  learning experiences
• Mentoring
• Naturally supported employment and workplace
  mentoring

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RENEW OUTCOMES

• 100 of participants moved on a grade level or
  graduated with diploma or GED
• 92 job attainment for more than 3 months
• 67 participants involved in post-high school
  education
• 83 reduction in police involvement

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APEX RENEW Achievements

• A total of 74 students enrolled-
• Red Zone Intensive Services from RENEW

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APEX RENEW Demographics

• Total of 43 active students.
• Central has 21 active students.
• Franklin has 22 active students.
• Eleven of the 43 students officially dropped out
  of school.
• An additional 7 were disengaged in school- absent
  10 successive days or more.
• Remainder identified by school teams.

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Individual Intensive Services Included

• 47 community based or independent in school
  education programs individually designed for
  students.
• 49 Students obtained and maintained jobs for at
  least 3 months.
• 15 young people obtained their drivers licenses
• 21 received housing support
• 21 received additional counseling
• 32 received court assistance
• 23 received medical assistance
• 12 were enrolled in financial assistance
  programs.

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Student Successes

• Eight students graduated from High School, 6 of
  those in 2004.
• Ten young people obtained a GED
• Two graduates enrolled in post-secondary
  education programs for the fall of 2004.
• Twenty-eight students advanced to the next grade
  level,
• Fifteen maintained the same grade level and
  stayed enrolled in their schools.

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Alliance For Community Supports Menu of Services
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ACS Menu of Services

• RENEW intensive Case Management
• Functional Behavioral Assessments
• Wrap Around Facilitation
• Futures Planning

• Individualized Services
• Technical Assistance
• Professional development trainings in intensive
  case management services