ALL PRIMARY & SECONDARY GRADES

After-School Programs
In conjunction with participating school districts and community-based organizations, the Partnership supports and operates after-school programs in elementary, middle, and high schools. Partnership after-school programs are modeled on established best practices, such as those articulated by The After-School Corporation. Additional information

Educational Karate Program (EKP)
The Educational Karate Program (EKP) helps students learn respect, self-control, violence prevention strategies, as well as anti-abduction techniques. EKP promotes non-violent problem solving by exploring the idea of peace with oneself and others and by emphasizing the importance of both physical and mental well-being. Validated by the NYS Education Department, this program has been widely replicated in school districts across New York. EKP was developed by nationally recognized physical fitness and martial arts expert Hidy Ochiai. Additional information

Every Person Influences Children (EPIC)
EPIC is an evidence-based community- and school-based workshop program designed to enhance parental involvement in the educational lives of their children. Participants meet in supportive discussion groups that address parents' concerns and help improve parenting skills and communication among children, their parents, and school personnel. By exploring parenting issues and sharing concerns, participants increase their knowledge and become more self-confident as parents. Additional information

Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP)
The Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) is a federally validated program that provides intensive mentoring for youth at risk of academic failure, dropping out of school, or involvement in delinquent activities such as gangs and/or drug abuse. This program focuses on the importance of providing children with additional support and structure. All the School Resource Officers (SROs) and selected community volunteers are trained in JUMP techniques. Additional information

Mobile Outreach Services Team (MOST)
The Mobile Outreach Services Team (MOST) is comprised of clinicians trained to assess across mental health, substance abuse and other areas (using the Partnership’s Well-Being Assessment Instrument) in order to provide appropriate preventive and intervention treatment, to integrate services comprehensively (with the aid of the Partnership’s inter-agency database, CHARI), and to plan for follow-up services. Serving children and youth, the MOST clinicians are available during and after school hours and throughout the summer. Additional information

School Resource Officers (SROs)
The SROs are police officers who engage in school-based community-oriented policing that prevents violent, criminal and delinquent behavior in and around campuses. SROs are rigorously trained to identify children who have problems at home, school and with inter-personal relationships and to mentor them. The SROs are present in the schools as positive role models who promote a safe school environment. The Partnership has organized the SRO training program, which includes training on mental health referrals, preventive policing, anger management techniques, juvenile mentoring, and a wide range of school-based initiatives sponsored by the Partnership. SRO training is ongoing. Additional information

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PRE-SCHOOL & ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ACCELERATE (Auburn-Cayuga County Emotional LEarning & ReAdiness To Excel Program)
The Partnership's ACCELERATE program provides an innovative continuum of evidence-based programs and services in Auburn's center-based child care centers. The goals of this continuum are to: enhance the capacity of pre-school program educators to support at-risk children; introduce school- and family-based prevention programs that effectively promote the social, emotional, and behavioral competency skills of children; effectively address the service needs of children with developmental deficits by implementing validated child- and family-focused programs that occur in natural settings; and improve access to community services. ACCELERATE's core programs include child-centered play therapy, Child Parent Relationships (CPR), Pre-School Second Step, and EPIC (Every Person Influences Children) Parenting Skills workshops. Click on one of the four links below for more information:

Play therapy  •  Second Step   •  EPIC

Guiding Good Choices (GGC)
GGC is a research-based program that provides parents of children in grades 4 through 8 with crucial skills to reduce the risk that their children will develop drug problems. Parents are offered specific strategies for setting family guidelines, managing conflict, develop refusal skills and strengthening family bonds. In controlled studies GGC has been shown to substantially reduce alcohol and marijuana use as well as the progression to more serious substance abuse. Additional information

Opportunity for Academic Success in School (OASIS)
OASIS is a validated early intervention summer program for elementary students. As implemented by the Partnership, OASIS will serve students entering grades 1 through 4 who are experiencing difficulties in reading and math. This 5-week intensive program emphasizes mastery of language and math skills needed for the next grade level. Parental involvement is encouraged through learning kits for use at home. OASIS students have shown significant gains in their reading, language and math ability, as well as a decrease in grade level retentions. The OASIS program was implemented by the Partnership in the summer of 2000 for 50 students, and currently serves over 250 students annually. Additional information

Resilience Project
The Resilience Project is a school-based prevention program. It is offered for students attending Kindergarten through 3rd grade. The Resilience Project helps to reduce social, emotional, and behavioral problems experienced by many children in their early years at school. Highly trained staff work one-on-one to help children strengthen their coping skills at school and at home. The goal is to promote academic success and positive child development. Additional information

Second Step Violence Prevention Program
Second Step is a validated school-based program that teaches students to change attitudes and behaviors that contribute to violence. The curriculum teaches social skills to enhance empathy and tolerance, to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children, and to increase levels of social competence. This program is implemented by the Partnership in elementary and middle schools. Additional information

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MIDDLE SCHOOL

Guiding Good Choices (GGC)
GGC is a research-based program that provides parents of children in grades 4 through 8 with crucial skills to reduce the risk that their children will develop drug problems. Parents are offered specific strategies for setting family guidelines, managing conflict, develop refusal skills and strengthening family bonds. In controlled studies GGC has been shown to substantially reduce alcohol and marijuana use as well as the progression to more serious substance abuse. Additional information

Second Step Violence Prevention Program
Second Step is a validated school-based program that teaches students to change attitudes and behaviors that contribute to violence. The curriculum teaches social skills to enhance empathy and tolerance, to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children, and to increase levels of social competence. This program is implemented by the Partnership in elementary and middle schools. Additional information

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HIGH SCHOOL

Building Relationships in Greater Harmony Together (BRIGHT)
BRIGHT is an evidence-based program developed by psychologists from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The primary objective of this program is to help teens develop a model of healthy strategies for handling anger and conflict in dating relationships. While the curriculum focuses on coercive behavior between dating partners, the issues raised in this curriculum lend themselves to other important topics such as peer aggression, sexual coercion, conflict resolution, and anger management. The Partnership has integrated into high school health curricula at several sites. Additional information

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ENHANCED CRISIS MANAGEMENT AT ALL GRADE LEVELS

School Crisis Intervention Unit (SCIU)
The School Crisis Intervention Unit (SCIU) is skilled in crisis management techniques and post-critical incident debriefing and will be called upon should the need arise. The team will include various school staff, Mobile Outreach Services Team (MOST) counselors, and School Resource Officers (SROs).

Tactical School Police Response Unit
The Tactical School Police Response Unit is a specialized team of law enforcement officers drawn from the Auburn Police Department, the Cayuga County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in the region. The Unit is trained and equipped by the Partnership to control serious incidents in the schools, along with other law enforcement agencies in the region.

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EARLY INTERVENTION

Nurse-Family Partnership
Nurse-Family Partnership (N-FP) is proven program to enhance parent-child attachment and parenting skills for young at-risk mothers. It substantially reduces the chances of child abuse and neglect, increases the likelihood of families' self-sufficiency, and lowers the rates of subsequent substance abuse and criminal behavior by parent and child alike. The program involves frequent home visits by registered nurses which begin during pregnancy and continue up to the child's second birthday. N-FP is not currently offered in Cayuga County. Additional information

Therapeutic Day Care
The Partnership’s Therapeutic Day Care Program employs a wide range of best early childhood policies and practices to fashion a more effective and efficient delivery system. The Program uses a validated assessment process and appropriate, early mental health interventions that maximize the therapeutic impact of art and play therapy in natural settings and that enhance the capacity and skills of day care staff. The Therapeutic Day Care Program is currently being offered in center-based child care programs in a collaboration with the Cayuga County Community Mental Health Center. Additional information

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FAMILY STRENGTHENING

Family Group Conferencing
Family Group Conferencing is a validated intervention designed to support and guide families, including extended family members, to provide their own resolutions when there is a risk of out of home placement. The model focuses on a family's strengths, resources, culture and relationships to encourage family members to assume more responsibility in providing care and protection for their children. Additional information

Functional Family Therapy (FFT)
Functional Family Therapy is a validated, strength-based program designed to improve problem-solving skills for families with adolescent children. This in-home program decreases at-risk behaviors and bolsters mental health for both students and parents. Additional information

Lifelong Independence for Families on TANF (LIFT)
The Partnership for Results, Inc. in conjunction with Cayuga County Health and Human Services is offering an intensive case services program for certain families receiving Temporary Assistance for Need Families (TANF). The LIFT program provides assessment, case management, and coordinated service plans for all family members to promote self-sufficiency.

Multidimensional Family Support Program (MFS)
MFS is provided by the Partnership in collaboration with Cayuga County Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It offers an intensive, clinically based program for families involved with HHS who have children that are: at risk of removal from their home to a higher level of care; at risk of removal from their current foster home to a higher level of care; transitioning out of custody back to their homes; transitioning from residential placement to home/foster home; needing support during their post adoption transitions. Each family is assigned a master’s level clinician from the Partnership. The clinician and family collaborate to determine the best intervention and services that will support the family and allow the child to maintain his/her current placement. The clinician, who is trained in home-based interventions and multi-disciplinary family assessment, provides clinical intervention.

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JUVENILE JUSTICE

Intensive Supervision/Conditional Discharge Program (ISCD)
The Intensive Supervision/Conditional Discharge program is a therapeutic, community-based alternative program for children under the age of 16 who are at risk of placement in a youth detention facility or foster care. A team of mental health professionals and caseworkers uses evidence-based therapeutic and case management services to assist the identified youth and their families to meet the goal of reintegration into pro-social settings at school, home and the community.

PINS Prevention and Treatment (PPT)
PINS Prevention and Treatment (PPT) is designed to prevent court involvement and placement outside the home. PPT youth are typically referred by their home schools or Family Court for a range of status offenses (such as truancy and chronic behavior problems). They are provided intensive mental health and case management services for one to four months. Treatment planning focuses on all aspects effecting the functioning and well being of youth and their families including mental health, substance use, learning disabilities, homelessness, and physical health. Additional information

School Resource Officers (SROs)
The SROs are police officers who engage in school-based community-oriented policing that prevents violent, criminal and delinquent behavior in and around campuses. SROs are rigorously trained to identify children who have problems at home, school and with inter-personal relationships and to mentor them. The SROs are present in the schools as positive role models who promote a safe school environment. The Partnership has organized the SRO training program, which includes training on mental health referrals, preventive policing, anger management techniques, juvenile mentoring, and a wide range of school-based initiatives sponsored by the Partnership. SRO training is ongoing. Additional information

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PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

Every Person Influences Children (EPIC)
EPIC is an evidence-based community- and school-based workshop program designed to enhance parental involvement in the educational lives of their children. Participants meet in supportive discussion groups that address parents' concerns and help improve parenting skills and communication among children, their parents, and school personnel. By exploring parenting issues and sharing concerns, participants increase their knowledge and become more self-confident as parents. Additional information

Guiding Good Choices (GGC)
GGC is a research-based program that provides parents of children in grades 4 through 8 with crucial skills to reduce the risk that their children will develop drug problems. Parents are offered specific strategies for setting family guidelines, managing conflict, develop refusal skills and strengthening family bonds. In controlled studies GGC has been shown to substantially reduce alcohol and marijuana use as well as the progression to more serious substance abuse. Additional information

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COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Community Advisory Board (CAB)
The Partnership has organized and acted in close consultation with a Community Advisory Board (CAB) comprised of over 75 parents, students, and representatives of local community-based organizations. The CAB, which has met monthly since April, 2000, assists the Partnership in systematically communicating the Partnership's activities throughout the target area and recruiting community participants for project activities.

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