This webinar dives deeply into the Caring Adult Relationships platform area. We explore lessons from communities, researchers, and a young person on how to sustainably increase the number and quality of caring adults, and the impact of these relationships on a student’s life.

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Achieving a 90 percent Graduation Rate:
Unlocking the Untapped Potential of
Caring Adult Relationships
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
3:00 – 4:00pm EST

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Introduction
Center for Promise: Web of Support Research
A Youth’s Perspective on Caring Adult Relationships
Communities in Schools: How Site Coordinators Are Caring
Adults
Colorado Panel: Colorado School Counselor Corps Program
Questions and Answers
Agenda

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 Caring adult relationships promote positive
academic, behavioral, and psychological
development so that youth can succeed in
school and life.
 Partnering with AmeriCorps and other direct
service providers leverages outside resources
to bring more caring adults into schools.
GradNation Action Platform:
Increasing the number and quality of caring adult relationships in
students’ lives.

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Defining Webs of Support: A New Framework to Advance
Understanding of Relationships and Youth Development
Shannon Varga, P.h.D
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Promise

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Relationships are the foundation upon which
all youth development rests
Mentoring
Parent-child
Teacher-student
Bus driver Custodian

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Relational Resources
Social Support:
Informational
Instrumental
Emotional
Affirmation
Social Capital
Bridging
Bonding

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Web of Support Youth are active agents in their
own development
All adults have the potential to
provide at least one or more
support to youth
Interconnectivity amongst
actors in the web is important
for resilience
Webs are dynamic and
change over time depending
on need
Varga & Zaff, 2017

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The Case of School Choice

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Q&A
Alexis Creamer
America’s Promise Alliance Youth
Trustee

11. Michael Huang
Vice President, National Resource
Center & Connections
Communities In Schools

12. Outline
1 About Communities In Schools
2 About the CIS Model
What is the site coordinator’s role in executing the CIS Model?
3
Our Approach to Building Relationships (Case
Management)
4
Our Evolving Understanding of Relationships
Developmental Relationships with Search Institute
5 Results of Case-Managed Students

13. Our Students at a Glance*
*Data collected based on case-managed students

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15. Site Coordinators In Schools
A trained professional who works with school administrators to assess needs, develop a plan
and build a team to provide supports to schools and students..
School-based coordinators remove barriers for vulnerable students by leveraging evidence,
relationships and local resources to drive results.
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16. Data Collected
• Referral + Parent Consent Form
• Student Demographics
• Student Attributes, Assets and Risk Factors
• Student Baseline Data (Attendance, Behavior, Course
Performance) + Case Management Intensity
Data Sources
• Developmental Assets
• Standard Student Metrics
Tools
• Student Referral Form
• Student Assets, Risk Factors, Attributes Inventory
1
Student Needs Assessment
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17. • Site coordinators continuously monitor student and school
progress and adjusts supports to optimize results.
• Once the school support team has identified needs and put a
plan in place, they continue to meet with students, families,
teachers, and providers to make sure the supports are
working.
• By setting goals with students and the school, they are able
to monitor progress and adjust support accordingly.
4
Monitoring & Adjusting (Web of
Support)
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18. Power of Relationships Increase
postsecondary
enrollment,
persistence,
and completion
Develop
relationships
with caring
adults and
others
Develop social,
emotional, and
academic
competencies
Improve
attendance,
behavior, and
coursework
Reduce
dropout
rates
Increase
graduation
rates
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19. Developmental Relationships Framework
Copyright © 2016 by Search Institute®, 3001 Broadway Street NE, Suite 310, Minneapolis MN 55413; 800-888-7828;
www.search-institute.org. Used with permission.

20. How to build a developmental relationship: An example

21. Consistent Annual Outcomes for Case Managed Students
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Colorado Panelists
Rhonda Haniford, P.h.D
Assistant Superintendent, Secondary
Schools
Greeley-Evans Weld County District 6
Eva Pugh
Colorado School Counselor
Coordinator
CO Department of Education
Christina Cloyes
Lead Counselor
Greeley Central High
School

23. Colorado School Counselor Corps Grant
Goals
• Decrease student/counselor ratio
• Increase graduation rate
• Decrease dropout rate
• Decrease remediation rate
• Increase postsecondary matriculation rate
• Student connections w/ supportive adult
• Licensed school counselors
• Implement ASCA Model Source: 22-91, C.R.S.

24. Cohort 1-7
Colorado School Counselor Corps Districts
Cohort 7 indicated in blue

25. Colorado School Counselor Corps Grant Program
Milestones
• Over the nine-year history of the Counselor Corps Grant Program, 365 secondary
schools in 98 of 178 districts have participated, representing all regions
throughout Colorado.
• More than 270 licensed school counselors have served Colorado students, schools,
districts and BOCES through the grant.
• SCCGP funded schools provide additional opportunities to attend career fairs,
visit colleges and university campuses across the state.
• The average School Counselor Corps Grant Program funded school student-to-
counselor ratio is below the ASCA best practice recommendation of 250-to-1.

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Questions
&
Answers

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The GradNation campaign:
http://gradnation.americaspromise.org/
Communities In Schools
https://www.communitiesinschools.org/
Colorado School Counselor Corps Grant Program
https://www.cde.state.co.us/postsecondary/schoolcounselorcorps
Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6
https://www.greeleyschools.org/
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