Check & Connect: A Tier 2 PBIS Intervention

Check & Connect is a model of sustained intervention for promoting students’ engagement with school and learning. Demonstrated outcomes include:

• decrease in truancy,
• decrease in dropout rates,
• increase in accrual of credits,
• increase in school completion, and
• impact on literacy.

Check & Connect is data-driven and grounded in research on resiliency and home-school collaboration. Student referral criteria include alterable warning signs of school withdrawal – primarily attendance indices (absences, tardies, or skipping class)—in the context of academic performance and emotional or behavioral problems.

Check & Connect is implemented by a person referred to as a monitor or mentor. The person is a cross between a mentor, an advocate, and a service coordinator whose primary goal is to keep education a salient issue for disengaged students and their teachers and family members. The monitor/mentor works with a caseload of students and families over time (at least two years) and follows their caseload from program to program and school to school.

Check & Connect is structured to maximize personal contact and opportunities to build trusting relationships. Student levels of engagement (such as attendance, grades, suspensions) are “checked” regularly and used to guide the monitors’ efforts to increase and maintain students’ “connection” with school.

Upcoming Check & Connect Training

Cost: $100.00, includes contenental breakfast and lunch

Location: Drivers’ Village, 5885 East Circle Dr. # 350 Cicero, NY 13039

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This training on the Check & Connect model will provide you with practical tools for helping students reconnect to school and get on track to graduation. Participants in this program will learn:

• Strategies or engaging students in school
• How dropout risk factors may be altered
• The difference between basic and intensive dropout prevention programs
• The essential skills of an effective Check & Connect monitor
• How the Check & Connect monitor works with students, families, and school staff
• Resources for supporting students with academic, social and behavioral issues