1. School-Based Efforts: A Plan to Support At-Risk Youth
Week 4 Assignment
EDU 644
Andrea Ward
September 28, 2015
Dr. Linda Marsh

2. Introduction
As the role of a social worker, I am presenting information as it pertains to at- risk youth. Because there is such a large amount of at-risk youth in world today, it is my duty to bring awareness. This presentation is directed to those involved in helping students in creating positive and helpful learning environments, motivating and encouraging communal efforts, increasing the involvement of parents, teachers, and staff, and ensuring that our youth is given the help they need in order to be successful.

3. Youth At Risk Eight Indicators of Youth At Risk
Students with Learning Disabilities (NCSE, n.d.)
Mental Illness
Homeless
Abused sexually, physically or emotionally (NCSE, n.d.)
Ineffective parenting/abuse (NDPC, 2015)
Lack of community support services or response (NDPC, 2015)
Alcohol/Drug abuse
Involved with delinquent peers (NCSE, n.d.)

4. Effects and Implications
Long-term implications of behaviors on a student’s ability to achieve academic success
Behaviors associated with being at-risk
Short-term implications of behaviors on a student’s ability to achieve academic success 
According to NCSE, n.d., these factors are behaviors:
Running away
Skipping school
Drinking under age
Engaging in sexual behavior
Displaying disruptive behavior
Bullying/Harassment
Fighting
Committing acts of vandalism
Dropping Out/Truancy (NDPC, 2015) 
Dropping out
Health Issues
Depression
Randoms acts of disruptive behavior
Failing grades
Anger
Anxiety
Stress
Violence
Long-term health problems
Low-paying jobs
Unemployment
Selling Drugs
Low levels of Education
Imprisonment
Suicide

5. Solutions

6. Create a Framework
According to the NCSE, n.d., these factors will ensure development and growth among students who are at- risk:
Student Attendance
Student Attachment
Student Achievement
Engagement, education, and development are interventions and strategies that can help students make improvements (NDPC, 2015).

7. Integrating a Framework
It is critical to the development of students that we create a strategy and developmental approach in order to support youth at risk
“Total integration of the framework encompasses staffing, policies, communications, and community outreach” (NCSE, n.d.)
Basic Core Strategies; involving mentoring/tutoring, alternative schooling, service-learning, and after- school activities or opportunities (NDPC, 2015)

8. Participant Activity
Construct an engaging activity that encourages the audience for the presentation to provide feedback regarding their own respective, potential role in supporting a school’s efforts to create and integrate a framework for students at risk, that encourages ideas for potential solutions, and states how participants will interact, collaborate, and share ideas to all in attendance
Activity:
Have all participants fill out a summary card to learn the changes that they would like to see in the overall design and approach to learning and supporting at-risk youth.
Have all participants partake in a school-based survey that would allow them to access a basic questionnaire regarding the overall experience and learning for their child or student.

9. References
National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). Serving at-risk youth. Retrieved from services/at-risk-youth 
National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). At-risk youth. Retrieved from m/At-risk%20Youth 
National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.).  Parental involvement in schools. Retrieved from m/index.cfm/Parental%20Involvement%20in%20Schools
National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). Truancy. Retrieved from m/index.cfm/Truancy 
National Center for School Engagement. (n.d.). Youth development. Retrieved from m/index.cfm/Youth%20Development  
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network. (2015). Situations that put youth at risk. Retrieved from ns-that-put-youth-at-risk/