Pima Prevention Partnership

The site is an alternative school which supports students who are both on-track with graduation, and students lacking graduation credits (which is the norm). To ensure that students have opportunities to make-up loss of instructional time, the school offers credit recovery classes both online and in-person. There is a School Counselor and a SEL/Community Liaison that works to reach out to families and students to help with social emotional needs, attendance, academics, and online learning if the student needs to attend online classes. The site offers summer school and after-school tutoring with experienced teachers that target low-income families, Hispanic/Latino students, EL students, SPED students, YOTO/homeless students and students in foster care. All students have access to the the SEL Coordinator/Community Liaison who provides supportive services around social emotional learning to students, staff, and families utilizing social emotional learning practices, implementing SEL curriculum (SEL Newsela, MTSS), and works collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team. The SEL/Liaison coordinates training for teachers in the following areas: Trauma informed care, diversity training, social sexual harassment, and how to behavioral and mental support for students who have anxiety and family loss due to COVID, and with coming back to school in person. The position also provides for students 1 on 1 counseling, group meetings, addresses attendance issues, trauma and grieving, conflict resolution, and coping strategies for at school and at home. Family meetings center around communication, coping strategies with teens, solving attendance issues, and links to resources for conflict resolution. The site is connected to COPE which provides trauma, suicide prevention, and mental health training. Evidence-based programs that will be used after school and summer school are: Curriculum SAVVAS (formerly Pearson) that is research-based and aligns on the Arizona State Standards for English (myPerspectives) and Math (enVisionmath2.0) grades 6-12, Achieve3000, which is ESEA approved, is used for the EL students, Edmentum (Courseware) is used for online credit recovery classes. Instructional resources provided for tutoring for math and ELA to support student growth.