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Students
RISKline (565-7475)
—Established in 1988, the RISKline is a
24-hour service where students, parents and patrons
can access guidance and referrals for counseling
support. The program has been expanded to include
anonymous referrals for threats of violence or
the threat of weapons in the schools.
Anger Management/Self
Discipline
—The Appeals Committee requires these classes
for students troubled by inappropriate responses
to anger. During four sessions, students and their
parents learn to identify anger triggers and how
to access new response strategies to anger.
First Offenders
—Students who violate the Drug and Alcohol
Policy are required to attend eight hours of instruction
which includes:
• Laws and
Consequences
• Harmful
Effects of Drugs
• Communication
• New Strategies
for Avoiding Future Problems With Substances
• 1998-99
Statistics
• First Offenders:
252
• Second Offenders:
70
• Third Offenders:
6
Gang Prevention
Intervention
—New legislative funding available since
1994 is specifically targeted to students exhibiting
or at risk for gang involvement.
• Individual
tracking
• Mentoring
• Small group
or daily class group work
Pathfinders
—This program involves individual or small
group interaction with gang involved young women.
The goal of the program is to:
• Increase
School Attendance
• Establishing
a Positive Adult/Student Relationship
• Promote
Positive Life Skills
Sixth Sense/Living
Skills
—This project, in cooperation with Cornerstone
Counseling, provides students in fifth and sixth
grade additional instruction in positive outcome
skills to avoid violence, drugs and alcohol.
Service Learning
—Service learning has been adopted by the
USOE to help at-risk students begin to establish
positive connections with their own communities.
—Projects are designed to help students
learn:
• Lifelong
skills
• Participate
in service projects for the homeless, the aging
or others in the community who need support.
Crisis Intervention
—This counseling may include individual,
small or large groups of students when a traumatic
event disrupts the student or school.
SHOCAP (Serious
Habitual Offenders Comprehensive Action Program)
—SHOCAP is a cooperative project between
the schools, the police agencies and the legal
system. Juveniles who have been adjudicated on
multiple offenses or serious crimes are referred
to this program. This program more closely monitors
and enhances the inter-agency services for serious
habitually offending youth.
DARE
—Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education (DARE)
is provided by local law enforcement agencies.
Fifth and sixth grade students participate in
DARE training and graduation.
Teachers
Inservice Classes
—Bully Proofing Your School
—Prejudice Reduction
—Lying, Cheating and Stealing in the Classroom
—Preventing Sexual Harassment
Helping Hands
—This newsletter is published for all school
employees and offers helpful and instructional
articles on the current at-risk issues. The RISKline
is also advertised.
Second Step
—This is a new violence prevention curriculum
being placed in the media centers of all elementary
schools. The curriculum includes videos and materials
appropriate for grades 1-3 and 4-6.
Resources for
Better Schools
—These kits have been purchased for middle
schools. When a child is placed in In-School Suspension
(ISS), materials are available by topic (fighting,
tardiness, etc.) so that the student works on
materials intended to eliminate the problem that
caused his/her suspension.
Parents
Jordan Family
Education Center
—Classes
—Intake Evaluations for At-Risk Students
—Counseling Services
—Referrals to Outside Agencies
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