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ALAS: Providing Support and Follow-up to Students at Risk of Dropping Out

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Intervention Details

Subject

Non-Academic Area

Academic Programs

N/A

Duration

Multiple years

Grade

9

Personnel

Other

Intervention Summary

ALAS (Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success) is a program intended to target students identified as at risk of dropping out of school due to low academic performance and behavior problems. ALAS provides students with support and follow-up across multiple years of program participation. The program consists of six related strategies: monitoring attendance, improving student social and task-related problem-solving skills, connecting students and families with community services, providing follow-up instruction on behavior change, and delivering the ALAS Resilience Builder curriculum. ALAS is delivered on the school campus by a team of supervisors, counselors/mentors, volunteers, and clerical staff.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on staying in school

Positive effect on progressing in school

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Achievement for Latinos through Academic Success (ALAS). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/322.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.