Community Strategic Plan: Decrease High School Drop-out Rate

Community Wellbeing: Decrease High School Drop Out Rate

Strategy	Action Steps	Done by Whom?
Address the risk factors that promote drop out.	Research the reasons why kids drop out of school. E.g. Quality of Life issues for kids such as domestic violence, teen pregnancy, drug use, etc.	Superintendent, guidance counselors, Amy Schubert, Hearshell VanLuven, Brita Merkel
	Assess where parents are involved in the school system.
	Assess what the school needs.
Strategy	Action Steps	Done by Whom?
Create mentoring / educational programs.	Support Partnership for Promises’ efforts to develop a youth mentoring program.	Shelee Warner with the Partnership for Promise, Emily Adams
	Expanding the parenting classes and family resource center to include the middle and high school.	Alyssa Lindsay with the Family Resource Center
Strategy	Action Steps	Done by Whom?
Utilize Law Enforcement, Judicial Courts and Public Assistance to decrease drop out rate.	Provide training to the police about juvenile crimes and how to identify truancy.	Curt Myhre
	Explore the option of tying in welfare (bonus or penalty based on your child’s school attendance) like in Canada.	Ray Trumpower, OPA, Curt Myhre
	Judicial sentencing to parenting classes.	Judge Mohr and Ray Trumpower