A new program in the Allentown School District is taking aim at dropouts..
The initiative, implemented in partnership with Communities in Schools, Lehigh Valley, kicked off this week at Allen and Dieruff high schools.
The nationwide organization has worked with the ASD for the past 25 years in providing support to students who need it most, via after school programming and alternative education.
This week, CIS kicked off a program called "Graduate Allentown," in which workers will work one-on-one with at-risk students, along with connecting students and, if needed, their families, to appropriate resources.
"A lot of times, these students need all kinds of support, academic and non-academic. Sometimes, there's a home situation that we can be of help. It might be housing, it might be an employment issue, it might be just a student who doesn't have the kind of stability,” said Timothy Mulligan, president and CEO of CISLV.
Mulligan added he and district officials are thinking of adding a second phase to the program, which would focus on re-engaging kids who've already dropped out of high school.
"Right now, we're working on preventative measures, the kids who are still in school but struggling, but we also have visions of working with the kids who have already dropped out and bringing them back," he said.
Just last year, Mulligan said CIS implemented a similar program at Easton Area High School, where all 22 at-risk seniors they worked with graduated.
"Our success is because we create those caring one-to-one relationship with these kids and we tell them we believe in them, and you can do this and we're going to be there to support you," he said.
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