Design a drop out prevention program for high school students. Be sure to include activities and

programs focusing on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and identify them as such in
your answer.

What will be an ideal response?

For primary prevention efforts, an orientation to the high school with students and parents
would happen every summer for entering freshmen. It would be stressed that there is support for all
students and their families. A homework hotline would be established and efforts to engage students
and parents in school activities would be addressed. Students likely to drop out of high school include
those with a history of school failure, are aggressive, involved in risky behavior such as early sex,
drug and alcohol abuse.
For secondary efforts, students with such risk factors would be identified in middle school and offered
assistance as they transition into a new environment. Activities specifically designed to engage these
students would be planned. In order to do this, theywould be given a survey of the type of activities
they would like to see at the school and the school would try and involve them in these. Peer mentors
would be assigned to students who need themfor academic as well as emotional support.
Tertiary efforts would include truancy officers contacting parents when students are absent, meeting
with students who are chronically absent, late or having difficulties in school and following up with a
return plan for students who are suspended from school that includes counseling sessions and peer
support.