Sustaining Your Prevention Initiative-- Pg 9

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			Dropout Prevention

			Special Education

			Civil Rights

			English Language Acquisition


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	Financial Aid for Postsecondary Students

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Sustaining Your Prevention Initiative

Supporting Materials: Preliminary Assessment of Taft Middle School Prevention Activities

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Preliminary Assessment of Taft M.S. Prevention Activities
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Prevention Activities	Current Status	Next Steps
Classroom-based efforts:
1. Social skills program for students in grades 6-8	1. Implementers are trained and supportive of the program, the program has been easily integrated into the school day, and students are engaged. However, implementation varies across teachers.	1.
2. Classroom restructuring	2. Classroom restructuring on hold until training is completed.	2.
Schoolwide efforts:
1. Information and referral service	1. Teachers are well-educated about warning signs and available services, yet many students and families are choosing not to follow through with their referrals.	1
2. Walk Safely program	2. Students feel safer, there are fewer incidents of peer harassment to and from school, and parents feel good about their involvement. However, this effort could benefit from increased parent involvement.	2.
Family involvement efforts:
1. Walk Safely program	1. See above.	1.
2. Social skills program for parents	2. The few parents in attendance are engaged. However, implementation varies across teachers, and the program could benefit from increased parent involvement.	2.
Community involvement efforts:
Information and referral service	See above.
Policy development and enforcement:
1. Harassment policy	1. A clear policy statement has been written and adopted by the school, but it still needs to be communicated to the entire school community. Enforcement efforts need to be increased and better documented.	1.
2. Tobacco policy	2. The tobacco policy statement has been revised. Communication efforts need to be continued. Enforcement efforts need to be increased and better documented.	2.
Links to education reform:
Connect prevention activities to whole-school reform efforts	Prevention Planning Team members are collaborating with the School Improvement Team to identify ways to link prevention activities to ongoing reform efforts.
Professional development:
1. Training for student social skills program	1. All implementers received high-quality training, but some teachers may require additional mentoring to improve implementation fidelity.	1.
2. Training for parent social skills program	2. Same as above.	2.
3. Coaching/program implementation meetings	3. A coaching initiative has been started to provide ongoing support to program implementers and to increase implementation quality. Follow-up meetings are also being held every other week to further these goals.	3.