Support Program for Parents of Suspended Youth (From Transitional Services for Troubled Youth, P 34-36, Bruce Wolford, Cynthia J. Miller, et al, eds. -- see NCJ-123481)

• NCJ Number: 123994
• Author(s): J E Smith
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 3 pages
• Sale Source: Eastern Kentucky University
• Publication Type: Program Description (Model)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

The Parent Support Program at Tulsa County Alternative School (TCAS), which serves students suspended from their home schools, offers support services and training in parenting skills including better communication skills, assertive discipline types, drug and alcohol use, and support in coping with other difficult problems.

Abstract

The counselor works directly with students identified as high-risk individuals, setting long-term and immediate goals, and helps parents understand the patterns of actions and reactions in their families. Students are identified as high-risk on the basis of attendance, failure notices, social difficulties, and emotional problems. Classwork progress and current and past probation also provide a referral basis. During the first few years of the program, the parent support counselor develops a library, expands the topics covered with parents, becomes involved in student discipline, formalizes the agenda and brings speakers to the Parent Support meetings, and develops "brief topic folders" on subjects of interest. Future developments will include basing the program in the school superintendent's office rather than in TCAS, providing staff development programs in other schools, making the program available to parents of students on probation, and working more closely with the county dropout/truancy program. 1 table. (Author abstract modified)