Check & Connect
Check & Connect is an intervention program in the USA . The aim of the program is to help students with learning problems, behavior problems and emotional problems graduate from school .
Students work with a mentor who will talk to them about life choices that could stand in the way of graduation (such as drug use, participating in criminal activities, choosing to be a parent).
The mentors meet with the students once a week to once a month for at least two years, as required.
Evaluation of the program
Sinclair et al. compared a group of 206 students who had learning or behavioral or emotional problems who participated in the program with a group of students who had the same problems but who did not participate in the program. In both groups, 84% of students were male, 64% were African-American, and 70% were poor (as measured by free school lunch eligibility)
The results were as follows:
- The students in the Check & Connect group went to school more regularly than the students in the control group. 30% of the students from the Check & Connect group, but 41% from the control group, were often absent from school
- 61% of the students from the Check & Connect group, but only 43% from the control group, graduated from high school
credentials
- ↑ Sinclair, Mary F., Sandra L. Christenson, and Martha L. Thurow. "Promoting School Completion of Urban Secondary Youth With Emotional or Behavioral Disabilities." Exceptional Children. Vol. 71, no. 4, 2005, pp. 465-482.