Intervention Programs
Intervention Programs on West High School Campus
Aggression Replacement Training (ART)
Aggression Replacement Training is a comprehensive cognitive behavioral intervention for aggressive youth. It provides up to 10 weeks of group training sessions for each of coordinated and integrated components: Social Skills Training, Anger Control Training, and Moral Reasoning.
Forward Thinking/Interactive Journaling
Interactive Journaling is a structured and experiential writing process that motivates and guides youth toward positive life change. This cognitive behavioral curriculum has nine different journals that offer a variety of strategies for facilitating one-to-one and group sessions.
Brief Intervention
Brief intervention is designed to motivate individuals at risk of substance abuse and related health problems to reduce and change their behavior by helping them understand how their substance use puts them at risk. It is given into three sessions.
Small Groups
Tier 2 Interventionists are trained in small group facilitation. Small groups teach teamwork ability, improves self-directed learning, enhances student-faculty and peer-peer interaction, develops self-motivation, allows students to test their thinking, and helps with acceptance of personal responsibility for own progress. Examples of our small groups:
- Coping Skills
- Social Skills
- Grief Group
- Young Parenting Group
- Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Identity Group
Restorative Practices
Group which utilizes the principles found in Restorative Practices more specifically restorative circles. Restorative circles/practices fosters safe learning environments through community building and constructive conflict resolution.
Check In-Check Out (CICO)
CICO is standardized monitoring intervention that increases positive adult contact while providing frequent feedback, daily home-school communication, and positive reinforcement contingent on meeting behavioral goals.
Why Try
Why try is a strength based approach to helping youth to overcome their challenges and to improve truancy, behavior, and academics outcomes. It is based on solution focused brief therapy and multisensory learning.
Family Engagement/Home Visits
Family engagement/home visits allow access to difficult-to-reach families, minimize barriers to support, and gain an understanding of a family’s ecological context while emphasizing the importance of the family’s role in their student’s academic success.
Conflict Mediation
Conflict mediation is aimed at teaching students more constructive means of handling conflict. I-statements, ground rules and a mediator are imperative to, exploring possible solution options, selecting solution options, and reaching an agreement.
Informal Restorative Mediation Conference
A formal response to incidents that occur. The intention of the conference is to repair the harm of all parties involved through a systematic approach.
On Campus Intervention
Is a pilot program at West High School which is designed to be an alternative to suspension. Students referred to the OCI program will receive targeted intervention lessons on specific behaviors. The Dean of Students determines students recommended for OCI based upon their discipline.