Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory

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1 Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory Illinois State Board of Education Special Education and Support Services Division Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program (TAOEP) Sally Veach, Principal Education Consultant V. Sue Taylor, Principal Education Consultant Joni Deems, Professional Development Director

2 Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory Volume 16 December 2015 Prepared in Partnership with: Regional Office of Education # S. Lafayette - Suite 200 Macomb IL Phone: (309) Fax: (309) Web site: Illinois State Board of Education 100 North First Street Springfield IL Phone: (217) Fax: (217) Web site: Publication Designed By: Joni Deems

3 Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory Table of Contents Introduction College Programs Black Hawk College - Optional Education Program John A. Logan College - Adult Secondary Education Kishwaukee College, District Right To Succeed Program and Restart Program Lake Land College - Pathways Lewis and Clark Community College - Enriched GED Program Regional Office of Education Programs ROE #1 Adams/Brown/Cass/Morgan/Pike/Scott - Abolish Chronic Truancy Program (ACT) ROE #3 Bond/Christian/Fayette/Effingham/Montgomery - Alternative Education Programs ROE #4 Boone/Winnebago - Regional Attendance Coop/Regional Learning Center ROE #6 West Cook - West 40 TAOEP ROE #8 Carroll/JoDaviess/Stephenson - TAOEP Program ROE #9 Champaign-Ford - Attendance Improvement Program ROE #11 Clark/Cumberland/Coles/Douglas/Edgar/Moultrie/Shelby - A.I.M ROE #12 Clay/Crawford/Jasper/Lawrence/Richland - TAOEP ROE #13 Clinton/Jefferson/Marion/Washington - TAOEP Program ROE #16 DeKalb - Truancy Intervention Program ROE #17 DeWitt/Livingston/Logan/McLean - TAOEP ROE #19 DuPage County - TAOEP ROE #20 Edward/Gallatin/Hamilton/Hardin/Pope/Saline/Wabash/Wayne/White - Learning Alternative Branch ROE #24 Grundy/Kendall - TAOEP ROE #26 Fulton/Hancock/McDonough/Schuyler - STAY-IN ROE #26 Fulton/Hancock/McDonough/Schuyler - TAOEP Professional Development ROE #28 Bureau/Henry/Stark - Assisting Children in Education (ACE) ROE #30 Alexander/Jackson/Perry/Pulaski/Union - TAOEP Program ROE #31 Kane - Truancy Prevention Program

4 Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory Table of Contents ROE #32 Iroquois/Kankakee - I-KAN Attendance Assistance Program ROE #33 Henderson/Knox/Mercer/Warren - Project ADEPT ROE #34 Lake - PASS ROE #35 LaSalle/Marshall/Putnam Attendance Awareness and Optional Education ROE #39 Macon/Piatt - Futures Unlimited ROE #40 Calhoun/Greene/Jersey/Macoupin - TAOEP ROE #41 Madison - Madison County TAP ROE #45 Monroe/Randolph - Right Track Truancy Prevention ROE #47 Lee/Ogle/Whiteside - Dropout Intervention System ROE #48 Peoria - Project Target ROE #49 Rock Island - Prevention Services Program ROE #50 St. Clair - St. Clair County TAOEP ROE #51 Menard/Sangamon- Sangamon County Learning Academy ROE #53 Mason/Tazewell/Woodford - Truancy and Credit Recovery Program ROE #54 Vermilion - Vermilion County TAOEP Program ROE #56 Will - TAOEP Program District Programs Alton Community Unit School District #11 - Alton Success Academy Aurora East School District #131 - The Advantage Program Belleville High School District #201 - Alternative Education Bloom High School District #206 - TAOEP Program Cahokia CUSD #187 - CHS Alternative Education Program Cairo USD #1 - Cairo Truancy/Intervention/Supplemental Services Program (CTISP) Carbondale Community High School District #165 - Rebound Carlinville CUSD #1 - TAOEP Century CUSD #100 - PACE Cooperative Champaign CUSD #4 - TAOEP Program Chicago Public Schools #299 - Attendance Improvement & Truancy Intervention Community High School District #218 - Delta Learning Center Decatur Public School District #61 - TAOEP Program East Richland Community Unit School District #1 - TAOEP Program East St. Louis School District #189 - Education & Truancy Intervention Program

5 Table of Contents Illinois Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program Directory Table of Contents Edwards County CUSD #1 - TAOEP Program Eldorado Unit #4 - TAOEP Program Evanston CCSD #65 - TAOEP Program Galesburg Community Unit District #205 - TAOEP Program Gallatin County Community Unit School District #7 - TAOEP Program Hamilton County Community Unit School District #10 - TAOEP Program Jersey Community Unit School District #100 - TAOEP Program LaSalle-Peru Township High School District #120 - Attendance Advocacy Program Lincoln Community High School District #404 - Project Lift Mt. Vernon Township High School District #201 - TAOEP Program PORTA Community Unit District #202 - TAOEP Program Quincy School District #172 - TAOEP Program Rockford Public Schools District #205 - Rockford Attendance Initiative Round Lake Area Unit School District #116 - TAOEP Program Thornton Fractional District #215 - TAOEP Program Thornton Township High School District #205 - TAOEP Urbana School District #116 - Urban Adult Education Waukegan Community Unit School District #60 - Alternative Optional Education Center

6 Introduction What is the Truants Alternative and Optional Education Program? Section of the School Code (105 ILCS 5/2-3.66) authorizes the State Board of Education to provide grants for the establishment of pilot Truants Alternative and Optional Education Programs (TAOEP). These programs serve students with attendance problems and/or dropouts up to and including those who are 21 years of age and provide truancy prevention and intervention services to students and their parents and/or serve as part-time or full-time options to regular school attendance. Programs, which primarily provide truancy prevention and intervention services, integrate resources of the school and community to meet the needs of the students and parents. Optional education programs, on the other hand, serve as part-time or full-time options to regular school attendance and offer modified instructional programs or other services designed to prevent students from dropping out of school. What are the Services? TAOEP services include prevention and/or intervention and optional education programs designed to prevent students from dropping out of school. Services include: Counseling Tutoring Mentoring Childcare Transportation Summer school Evening school, and Alternative school The primary goals of the program are to reduce student truancy and dropout rates. What are the Requirements? All projects in this program are required to develop a community-based program plan. Comprehensive community-based program planning results in the development of the program goals and objectives and a strategic plan. The development of the strategic plan should be supported by an analysis of social, human services and academic needs of students within the context of school improvement. The development of program goals and objectives as well as the process of identifying local/community resources in support of program services should evolve from collaborative discussion among a group of program stakeholders and/or partners, such as, but not limited to, the business community, government agencies, parents, local school administrators, teachers and students. Using in part the results of a comprehensive community-based program planning process, each TAOEP project must make use of the services available from schools, social service agencies, businesses, and other regional and local community entities. Projects should work to coordinate their efforts with those of others concerned with the welfare of children, including school district personnel, social service and community agencies, businesses, parents or guardians, court representatives, and staff advisory groups. An individualized optional education plan (IOEP) or service plan must be developed for each 1

7 student served in the TAOEP. This plan is developed with the participation of school officials, the student, and/or the student s parents or legal guardians (if the student is less than 18 years old). Plans should outline an individual student s academic, social and/or vocational skill needs as well as goals, objectives, and various educational experiences needed to reach those goals and objectives. In development of the IOEP, consideration must be given to results of diagnostic procedures conducted for the student. These diagnostic procedures shall include, but need not be limited to, teachers observations test/assessment scores, an interview with the youth, consultation with the youth s parent(s) or guardian(s), a review of the youth s academic history and current educational functioning, and an assessment of the youth s learning environment. The assessment may also include consideration of the student s need for mental health and social services. The individualized optional education or service plan developed for each student must specifically include: (1) Learning objectives or individual outcomes, such as increased school attendance, course credit, graduation, gains in achievement level or employment; (2) The basis on which the student is referred to the program; (3) The services that will be provided in relation to the student s educational needs to achieve learning objectives or individual outcomes; (4) Assessment procedures to determine the degree to which the student is achieving his or her learning objectives or individual outcomes; and (5) Appropriate time period during which the student is expected to achieve those objectives or outcomes. Eligible Applicants Public school districts, regional offices of education, community college districts, charter schools, area vocational centers, and public university laboratory schools approved by the State Board of Education are eligible to apply for either or both programs. Joint applications for funds may be submitted. However, in each case an administrative agent must be designated, and the joint proposal must have the signature of each superintendent or the official authorized to submit the proposal. 2

8 College Programs Black Hawk College John A. Logan College Kishwaukee College Lake Land College Lewis and Clark Community College 3

9 Black Hawk College - Optional Education Program Black Hawk College th Avenue Moline IL Phone: (309) Website: Glenda Nicke 301 Avenue of the Cities East Moline, IL Phone: (309) nickeg@bhc.edu Counties Served: Rock Island, Henry and Mercer The Optional Education Program has functioned as a collaborative effort between Black Hawk College and the six ROE #49 school districts that serve high school youth for over thirty years. The program is a key component in the region s continuum of educational options available for dropouts and potential dropouts. Distinguishing elements include: variable entry/exit at three-week intervals, individualized instruction, student choice, and focus on social and career as well as academic development. Academic services include both high school and high school equivalency instruction during the academic year and summer school. Non-academic courtrelated, life skills, monitoring, parenting, referral, mentoring, and family support services are also offered through TAOEP funds. Leveraged funds from other sources expand the number of academic classes and provide tutoring, career and work experience, college classes, and transportation support. Student outcomes will include one or more of the following: earned high school credit, earned high school diploma, readiness for high school equivalency testing, completion of one or more equivalency tests, earned high school equivalency credential, increase in Reading or Math scores, return to traditional school, completion of a career plan, passing score in a life skills curriculum, and/or improved attendance. Type of Service Offered: Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout and Dropout Grade of Students Served: 9-12 Age of Students Served: Program Sites: Black Hawk College Outreach Center & Black Hawk College Adult Learning Center 4

10 John A. Logan College - Adult Secondary Education (ASE) John A. Logan Community College 700 Logan College Road Carterville IL Phone: (618) Website: Crystal Hosselton 700 Logan College Road Carterville IL Phone: (618) Ext crystalhosselton@jalc.edu Counties Served: Williamson and Franklin - Jackson and Perry (In lieu of expulsion only) The Adult Secondary Education (ASE) program at John A. Logan College provides intervention services through: 1) an optional learning opportunity to dropout and potential dropout youth and 2) a credit recovery opportunity to potential dropout youth with academic problems associated with attendance issues. The following services are provided through the ASE programming: 1. An intensive, comprehensive, full-day educational program for dropout and potential dropout youth that includes education (academic instruction), academic and personal counseling, support services, community internships, workplace readiness, and volunteer activities. 2. A supportive educational summer and evening program that allows potential dropout youth with truancy issues the opportunity to earn high school credit and remain on track for high school graduation. 3. A supportive program of counseling and communication for students, parents, and staff facilitated by on-staff counselors and licensed social workers/counselors. 4. A program of assessment and counseling in academic, vocational, and life skill areas. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout and Dropout Grade of Students Served: 9-12 Age of Students Served: Program Sites: John A. Logan College 5

11 Kishwaukee College Right To Succeed Program and Restart Program Kishwaukee College Malta Road Malta IL Phone: (815) Website: Joanne Kantner Malta Road Malta IL Phone: (815) Ext Counties Served: DeKalb, Ogle, and Lee Counties within Kishwaukee College District 523 The TAOEP program provides educational and support services to re-enrolled high school dropouts age 16-21, as well as truants, chronic truants, and potential dropouts in grades The Right to Succeed Program at Kishwaukee College assists students who have dropped from school obtain a high school equivalency certificate. It provides academic counseling services, case management, and support services to assist students in meeting their educational and career goals. The Phoenix Program at Kishwaukee Education Consortium is an in-school program that provides counseling and truancy court/social work services for truants/chronic truants/potential dropouts and retrieved dropouts. All day remedial math and reading classes as well as other core curricular subjects are provided through the alternative school program. These programs utilize community resources and services and promote partnerships with business and industry. Referrals to community and employment services are coordinated to develop opportunities and career pathways for students as they prepare for a productive future. Program objectives reflect increased attendance and academic achievement. Skills for student success, such as respect, responsibility, critical thinking/problem solving, teamwork, community involvement, and lifelong learning are emphasized to prepare them for further education and employment. Type of Service Offered: Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: 6-12 Age of Students Served: Program Sites: Kishwaukee College, Kishwaukee Education Consortium 6

12 Lake Land College - Pathways to the Future Lake Land College 5001 Lake Land Blvd. Mattoon IL Phone: (217) Website: Dirk Muffler 305 Richmond E Mattoon IL Phone: (217) dmuffler@lakeland.cc.il.us Counties Served: Shelby, Moultrie, Douglas, Coles, Cumberland, Clark, Edgar and Effingham With cooperation from ROE #3 and #11, Pathways to the Future will be provided in the Lake Land College District for the 26th year. Pathways will continue to offer services to students between the ages of years who have either dropped out of high school or are at risk of doing so. Students entering into the Pathways program will either receive instruction toward the completion of their high school diploma or GED certificate. Courses included within their instruction will include parenting education, life skills training, vocational education, and job-seeking and keeping skills. Pathways will also offer tutoring, mentoring, and service learning opportunities throughout the year. Students will also be afforded the opportunity to ear dual-credits through our relationship with Lake Land College. Instruction, including those for students with credit deficiencies, will satisfy ISBE State Goals for Learning and those of local high schools and boards. Pathways will be offered in five communities utilizing Lake Land College facilities in Mattoon and Effingham. Pathways will also be offered in Casey, Marshall and Shelbyville as well. Classes will be held full-time, six hours a day at each site. Each site will be staged by a certified teacher and classroom assistant. Type of Service Offered: Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout and Dropout Grade of Students Served: 9-12 Age of Students Served: Program Sites: Effingham, Casey, Shelbyville, Mattoon and Marshall. 7

13 Lewis and Clark Community College - Enriched GED Program Lewis and Clark Community College 5800 Godfrey Rd. Godfrey IL Phone: (618) Website: Valorie K. Harris 5800 Godfrey Rd. Godfrey IL Phone: (618) vharris@lc.edu Counties Served: Madison, Macoupin, Jersey, Greene and Calhoun For the past 26 years, there has been consensus between LCCC and area high schools to transition high school aged youth who have officially dropped out of high school by enrolling them in LCCC s GED program. LCCC s Enriched GED program will provide an optional education program for 75 youth enrolled in GED classes at five locations. Many of these youth have also dropped from alternative schools for them, this program is often the last resort to earn certification for secondary learning. The purpose of enriched GED is to enhance the experience of students through ABE/GED instruction by adding structure and support to improve prospects of successful transitions through the GED program to college or work. Students attend a comprehensive orientation where they set goals and are given assessments. Based on the results, they are either placed concurrently into career development and GED preparation, where they focus on getting their GED while creating a transition plan that will lead to college and/or work, or they are placed into Evidence-based Reading Instruction to focus on improving reading skills and transitioning to GED-level coursework. Students complete an IOEP with a counselor and receive intense counseling services. Through these interventions, students will improve basic skills, receive GEDs, and develop an understanding of themselves that will serve as a foundation for their next step to college and/or work. Type of Service Offered: Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Dropout Grade of Students Served: Age of Students Served: Program Sites: Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey, LC Scott Bibb Center in Alton 8

14 Regional Office of Education Programs ROE #1 ROE #3 ROE #4 ROE #6 ROE #8 ROE #9 ROE #11 ROE #12 ROE #13 ROE #16 ROE #17 ROE #19 ROE #20 ROE #24 ROE #26 ROE #28 ROE #30 ROE #31 ROE #32 ROE #33 ROE #34 ROE #35 ROE #39 ROE #40 ROE #41 ROE #45 ROE #47 ROE #48 ROE #49 ROE #50 ROE #51 ROE #53 ROE #54 ROE #56 9

15 ROE #1 Adams/Brown/Cass/Morgan/Pike/Scott - Abolish Chronic Truancy Program (ACT) ROE #1 Adams/Brown/Cass/Morgan/Pike/Scott Jill Reis, Regional Supt. 507 Vermont Street Quincy IL Phone: (217) jreis@roe1.net Website: Wayne Hummel 507 Vermont Street Quincy IL Phone: (217) whummel@roe1.net Counties Served: Adams, Brown, Cass, Morgan, Pike and Scott The goal of the newly consolidated ROE #1 TAOEP program takes a holistic approach to truancy by providing intervention services and educational opportunities that improve school attendance, enhance academic performance, and encourage positive attitudes towards education. TAOEP staff will develop a professional relationship with students and families based on caring, trust, and respect while providing interactions such as home visits, phone contacts, and one-on-one counseling with the student, family, and school, as they provide curriculum and/or monitor school attendance. An Individualized Attendance Plan is created for each student based on the individual s attendance, needs, and potential. Services will be implemented to attain attendance goals set. TAOEP intervention programming initially provides supportive intervention to students age 6-17 at four days of truancy with additional, ongoing supports offered throughout the year but specifically at seven and nine day intervals of truancy. The optional education component for TAOEP at ROE #1 offers an alternative educational opportunity to at-risk students grade 9-12 at the Lafayette School in Jacksonville. The academy not only offers a classroom setting to students in need but also counseling and support to help the students become educated, literate, and employable upon high school graduation. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-21 Program Sites: Quincy, Pittsfield, Beardstown and Jacksonville 10

16 ROE #3 Bond/Christian/Effingham/Fayette/Montgomery - Alternative Education Programs ROE #3 Bond/Christian/Effingham/Fayette/Montgomery Julie Wollerman, Regional Supt. 300 South 7th Street Vandalia IL Phone: (618) juliewollerman@roe3.org Website: Contact Persons: Julie Wollerman 300 South 7th Street Vandalia, IL Phone: juliewollerman@roe3.org Counties Served: Bond, Christian, Effingham, Fayette and Montgomery The goals of the ROE #3 are to provide an alternative/optional education program in grades 9-12 for high school dropouts, truants and chronic truants, as well as provide truancy intervention/prevention services at the K-9 level to students with irregular attendance. The first goal will be achieved through New Approach and Aspire Alternative High Schools. The two high schools will provide a setting where credits can be generated toward graduation. 20 school districts in the five-county area will partner and provide the necessary educational components and social services needed for student success. Credit recovery classes will target truant and credit-deficient students. The alternative high schools will provide students with the opportunity to successfully return to their home school and/or graduate while focusing highly on transition to the post secondary level. The second goal will be met through the Regular Attendance Program (RAP). Truancy intervention/prevention services will be provided at the kindergarten through ninth grade levels to promote regular school attendance. Networking between RAP, other agencies, and the home school will be performed by the RAP attendance specialist to ensure success for the student and his/her family. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-21 Program Sites: Effingham and Vandalia 11

17 ROE #4 Boone/Winnebago - Regional Attendance Coop/Regional Learning Center ROE #4 Boone/Winnebago Dr. Lori Fanello, Regional Supt. 300 Heart Boulevard Loves Park IL Phone: (815) lfanello@kidsroe.org Website: Harold Sweeney 5949 Safford Rd Rockford IL Phone: (815) hsweeney@kidsroe.org Counties Served: Boone and Winnebago The Regional Attendance Cooperative (RAC) is the only program to provide support to the school districts of Boone and Winnebago Counties, excluding Rockford District #205, with truancy intervention efforts. The RAC realizes the district is responsible for primary intervention, but when the district s efforts fail to improve attendance, students will be referred to the TAOEP program. Upon referral, an individual plan is established with the input of the student and parents/guardians which will effectively use program and community resources to address the root cause of the truancy and assist the student/family to have a successful school experience. By the philosophy of the program, should intervention efforts fail to correct the truancy problem, and we file a petition for truancy or educational neglect with the States Attorney, we have failed in our efforts of intervention. The Regional Learning Center (RLC) provides Alternative/Optional Education to students ages 16 to 21 years old who reside in Boone or Winnebago County and have experienced school failure which has led to a decision to drop out of school and now seek to return to complete their education. The RLC accesses community resources to meet the needs of our students to become successful participants and productive citizens upon completion of the program. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional/Alternative Education Students Served: Retrieved Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-21 Program Sites: Rockford and Belvidere 12

18 ROE #6 West Cook West 40 TAOEP West 40 ISC #2 Dr. Mark Klaisner, Exec. Director 4413 Roosevelt Rd Suite 104 Hillside, IL Phone: (708) Website: Dana McLeod 4412 Roosevelt Rd. Suite 104 Hillside, IL Phone: (708) Counties Served: West Cook West 40 TAOEP will re-establish truancy services for School Districts 209 and 89 by offering a combination of intervention and remediation services. The three main components are: 1. Educate parents and school districts regarding truancy in West Cook County and seek their involvement in truancy reduction. Outreach Counselors will connect with community resources that will be utilized when assisting students. 2. Outreach Counselors will work with school officials to identify the needs and numbers of chronic truants and students at-risk of dropping out of school. 3. Outreach Counselors will interact with students to identify barriers to attending school. They will provide personal counseling and/or connect them with community resources to address their truancy and help them get back into school. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Chronic Truants Grade of Students Served: 6-12 Age of Students Served: Program Sites: School District 209 and School District 89 13

19 ROE #8 Carroll/Jo Daviess/Stephenson - TAOEP Program ROE #8 Carroll/Jo Daviess/Stephenson Aaron Mercier, Regional Supt. 27 S. State Ave., Ste 101 Freeport IL Phone: (815) amercier@roe8.com Website: Brandy Howard 27 S. State Ave., Ste 101 Freeport IL Phone: (815) Ext bhoward@roe8.com Counties Served: Carroll, Jo Daviess and Stephenson Regional Office of Education #8 will provide a truancy intervention/prevention program to at-risk youth in our threecounty region. The program will provide at-risk youth in grades K-12 with services designed to improve attendance and build self-esteem, academics, and life skills. Need for services is determined using FY14 End of Year Reports, FY 14 School Report Cards, meetings with local administrators, and past experiences of our TAOEP Program. The two components of the program will be case management and credit recovery. The case management component will be provided to districts with high numbers of truants and chronic truants. Truancy Specialists (case managers) will conduct regular home visits, provide one-on-one informal counseling to truant youth, and facilitate referral and linkage to school and community services. Credit recovery coursework will be available to all districts and will be provided primarily via online instruction, academic progress and attendance will be monitored weekly. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Potential Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-17 Program Sites: 14

20 ROE #9 Champaign/Ford - Attendance Improvement Program ROE #9 Champaign/Ford Jane Quinlan, Regional Supt. 200 South Fredrick Rantoul IL Phone: (217) jquinlan@roe9.k12.il.us Website: Regina Parnell 200 S. Frederick Champaign IL Phone: (217) parnellr@roe9.k12.il.us Counties Served: Champaign and Ford The program provides supplemental truancy intervention services to 14 schools districts in east central Illinois. Services include home visits, school visits, career services, academic counseling, health-related services, referrals to social services agencies, support services for parents, credit recovery programs, court services and summer programs. The program also provides a Truancy Review Board (TRB) serving chronic truants to determine final efforts needed to avoid court. We have diverted many truants from court through this process as well as improving their school attendance. The goal of our program is to provide and coordinate services for students who are experiencing attendance problems in order to maximize each student s potential to achieve academic success. Program objectives include increasing school attendance, reducing the number of chronic truants and providing summer school for secondary students in order to allow them to advance to the next grade level. We collaborate with other TAOEP Programs in our region, Champaign and Urbana, as well as various community agencies to help us ensure a continuum of services to students. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Potential Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-17 Program Sites: Champaign 15

21 ROE #11 Clark/Cumberland/Coles/Douglas/Edgar/ Moultrie/Shelby - Attendance Improvement Matters (A.I.M.) ROE #11 Clark/Cumberland/Coles/Douglas/Edgar/Moultrie/Shelby Dr. Bobbi Mattingly, Regional Supt th Street Charleston IL Phone: (217) bmattingly@roe11.org Website: Kyle Thompson 730 7th Street Charleston IL Phone: (217) kthompson@roe11.org Counties Served: Clark, Cumberland, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Moultrie and Shelby AIM (Attendance Improvement Matters) is the name for ROE #11 s supplementary TAOEP services. The purpose of AIM is to provide direct services to students that will assist them in overcoming barriers that interfere with school attendance. Priority will be given to economically challenged students because their numbers are growing in ROE #11 and they tend to require additional services to help them overcome barriers to school attendance caused by economic factors. The attendance specialists develop positive relationships with truant students and their families through home visits, school/classroom visits, incentive programs, mentoring, monitoring, and any other activities that are relevant to the intervention process. Flexibility in the design of the service plan ensures that individual needs are met. Beacons is the name of the alternative (optional) education component of ROE #11 s TAOEP services. Beacons is a self-contained classroom designed for chronic truants below the age of seventeen who wish to catch up to grade level or retrieve credits missed because of poor school attendance. Besides improving daily school attendance, another major outcome of both programs is getting or keeping students on track for high school graduation. Attendance improvement strategies are evidenced-based, flexible, sustainable, and coordinated with the classroom teacher, school district, and social service agencies. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-17 Program Sites: Optional Education Program in Lerna and Paris 16

22 ROE #12 Clay/Crawford/Jasper/Lawrence/Richland - TAOEP Program ROE #12 Clay/Crawford/Jasper/Lawrence/Richland Monte Newlin, Regional Supt. 103 West Main Street Olney IL Phone: (618) mnewlin@roe12.org Website: Travis Titsworth, Program Director 213 Cumberland St. P.O. Box 77 Willow Hill IL Phone: (618) ttitsworth@roe12.org Counties Served: Clay, Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence and Richland This program provides for a variety of comprehensive services to specifically identified truant, chronic truant, dropout and potential dropout students ages Efforts will be focused on students with attendance problems and potential dropouts. Chronic truants, potential dropouts, and retrieved dropouts will have priority status for placement and services. Each student served will have an Individualized Optional Education Plan (IOEP) and/or Service Plan developed with the involvement of the student, the student s parents/guardians, the Local Education Agency (LEA), and other entities as indicated by individual circumstances. The students served may receive a variety of services that can include remediation, intervention, support services and an academic component. The academic educational component s curriculum consists of general junior high school curriculum, Edgenuity online courses, and high school courses, some including work site experiences, as identified by the LEA and Truant Alternative Optional Education Program (TAOEP) Staff. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-21 Program Sites: Willow Hill 17

23 ROE #13 Clinton/Jefferson/Marion/Washington - TAOEP Program ROE #13 Clinton/Jefferson/Marion/Washington Ron Daniels, Regional Supt. 200 East Schwartz St. Salem IL Phone: (618) rdaniels@roe13.org Website: Lynette Baity 200 Schwartz St. Salem IL Phone: (618) lbaity@roe13.org Counties Served: Clinton, Jefferson, Marion, and Washington The ROE #13 Truant Alternative and Optional Education Program serves students and families of Clinton, Jefferson, Marion and Washington Counties. The program is designed to provide comprehensive truancy intervention and optional education for students age 7 to 12th grade from 49 school districts. The ROE #13 truancy program provides positive truancy prevention and intervention services that are designed to help students and their families become aware of the importance of consistent school attendance. The truancy advocate works with students, their families, the school district and social services to provide solutions to the obstacles that prevent regular school attendance. The ROE chronic truancy program offers support for students who have experienced nine or more days of unexcused absences. These efforts include communication with parents, home visits, juvenile court, educational support services, and an active truancy review board composed of members of local social, legal and educational agencies. ROE #13 also offers comprehensive educational programs at the Mt. Vernon Alternative Learning Center and the Centralia Alternative Learning Academy. Junior and high school students are referred from the districts to the schools. Academic and behavior modification programs are tailored to meet our students needs and attendance is closely monitored. Administrative staff and licensed teachers assist students in meeting their academic and personal goals. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 7-21 Program Sites: Alternative Learning Academy, Centralia, IL; Mt Vernon Alternative Center, Mt. Vernon, IL 18

24 ROE #16 DeKalb - Truancy Intervention Program ROE #16 DeKalb Amanda Christensen, Regional Supt North Annie Glidden Rd. - Suite C DeKalb IL Phone: (815) achristensen@kidsroe.org Website: Jeff Smith 2500 North Annie Glidden Rd. - Suite C DeKalb IL Phone: (815) jesmith@kidsroe.org Counties Served: DeKalb The DeKalb County Truancy Intervention Program (DCTIP) offers a combination of intervention and remediation services to all public school districts in DeKalb County. There are 8 school districts comprising a total student population of 17,000. Intervention services are aimed at identifying truants, chronic truants and potential dropouts in K-12 and providing them with effective resources. Services are largely rendered by truancy outreach workers (caseworkers) and include: parent education, absentee recovery, tutoring, monitoring, mentoring, counseling, home visits, and referrals to social service agencies. Remediation services allow students who have fallen behind the opportunity to recover lost course credits through online credit recovery (6-12). These students receive academic support and tutoring so they may achieve academically and rejoin classmates on the road to graduation. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Potential Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-20 Program Sites: DeKalb County Regional Office of Education 19

25 ROE #17 DeWitt/Livingston/Logan/McLean - TAOEP Program ROE #17 DeWitt/Livingston/Logan/McLean Mark E. Jontry, Regional Supt. 200 W. Front St, Suite 500D Bloomington, IL Phone: (309) jontrym@roe17.org Website: Glen Hoffmann 408 W. Washington Bloomington IL Phone: (309) ghoffmann@rasblm.org Website: Counties Served: DeWitt, Livingston, Logan and McLean The DeWitt/Livingston/Logan/McLean TAOEP program provides supplemental services to the traditional school that facilitates improvement in academic achievement and ultimate graduation of students that have been identified as at-risk due to truancy and/or potential dropout status. Credit recovery style programming includes: single credit, virtual schooling, and a summer session. These programs are open to any current 9-12th grade student in the region enrolled in school, who meet TAOEP requirements, and are at risk of dropping out due to credit deficiencies. In addition the summer session is open to grades 6-8 who are in need of a grade remediation program. A K-12 prevention/intervention program provides outreach services for school personnel to improve student attendance patterns and parent awareness of attendance requirements. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Potential Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-21 Program Sites: 408 W. Washington, Bloomington 20

26 ROE #19 DuPage - TAOEP Program DuPage ROE Dr. Darlene Ruscitti, Regional Supt. 421 N. County Farm Rd. Wheaton, IL Phone: (630) druscitti@dupageroe.org Website: Dr. Joseph Gust 421 N. County Farm Rd. Wheaton, IL Phone: (630) jgust@dupage.k12.il.us Counties Served: DuPage The DuPage County TAEOP is a coordinated collaborative effort between all of the local school districts in the county, local governmental agencies, community agencies, and the Regional Office of Education. The DuPage ROE received referrals from our local schools. Each individual case receives multiple program options that include, but are not limited to, Youth Outreach services (school visits, home visits, educational monitoring, advocacy, individual counseling, family counseling, community agency referrals, parent education) case management, court liaison, and prevention/education services. All grade levels (K-12) are served with intensive intervention/prevention services targeting chronic truants. An individual Optional Education Plan is developed and includes a diagnostic profile highlighting student needs, case management, goal setting, connection to the community resources and services advocacy, supportive parental involvement including home visits, individual, family and group counseling and continual reinforcement to meet the challenges and provide successful outcomes. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) Students Served: Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 6-17 Program Sites: DuPage County 21

27 ROE #20 Edward/Gallatin/Hamilton/Hardin/Pope/Saline/ Wabash/Wayne/White - Learning Alternative Branch ROE #20 Edward/Gallatin/Hamilton/Hardin/ Pope/Saline/Wabash/Wayne/White Lawrence Fillingim, Regional Supt. 512 North Main Street Harrisburg IL Phone: (618) lfillingim@roe20.org Website: Jim Taylor 307 E. Cherry Street Carmi IL Phone: (618) jtaylor@roe20.org Counties Served: Edward, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Pope, Saline, Wabash, Wayne and White ROE #20 has worked with a strategic planning group to study the needs of at-risk adolescents in Edwards, Gallatin, Hardin, Pop, Saline, Wabash, Wayne and White Counties. Five strategic goals have been identified for this project: (1) Delivering two comprehensive optional education programs in the northern (Mill Shoals) and southern (Harrisburg) tiers of the ROE #20 area; (2) Providing specialized intervention services to at-risk adolescents in high school and to elementary students needing individual attention; (3) Formulating a region-wide group to address the needs of elementary-level at-risk adolescents likely to exhibit behaviors requiring pre-high school remediation; (4) Collaborating with the region s social service agencies to provide comprehensive community-based interventions for at-risk adolescents with problems not being met through the region s schools; and (5) Establishing a region-wide feasibility task force to explore bringing all of the region s at-risk youth together in one school complex. Several initiatives have been identified for the ROE #20 TAOEP. These initiatives will be: utilize the PBIS network and the three-tier Response to Intervention model, establish two intensive learning centers, employ life coaches, and increase the number of interventionists. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-21 Program Sites: Mills Shoals Learning Alternative Branch School and Harrisburg Learning Alternative Branch School 22

28 ROE #24 Grundy/Kendall - TAOEP Program ROE #24 Grundy/Kendall Christopher Mehochko, Regional Supt Union Street Morris IL Phone: (815) cmehochko@roe24.org Website: Meghan Martin 7700 Ashley Rd Morris IL Phone: (815) , ext mmartin@roe24.org Counties Served: Grundy, Kendall The Grundy/Kendall Regional Office of Education provides supplemental and optional education services to the students enrolled in the 18 school districts within Grundy and Kendall counties. Major emphasis is placed on connecting the student to the school community, as well as the community at large, and to increase positive interaction between truant youth and trusted adults. Program staff has worked to foster a truly collaborative relationship between students, their families, school personnel, and existing community institutions. The supplemental services portion of the grant employs two caseworkers who work directly with school personnel to identify and support youth that remain truant despite numerous school-based interventions. Caseworkers provide a variety of attendance interventions to referred youth. Over the past three decades, these measures have demonstrated effectiveness through increased student attendance rates. The optional education portion of the grant employs a teacher, a classroom aide, a mental health counselor, and an employment coordinator. Referred youth will attend Premier Academy, the alternative school. They will benefit from a full day academic program, life skills training, mental health groups and individual counseling, career building, college planning, and other services as needed. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services), Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Chronic Truant, Truant, Potential Dropout and Dropout Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-21 Program Sites: Premier Academy, Morris Campus 23

29 ROE #26 Fulton/Hancock/McDonough/Schuyler - STAY-IN ROE #26 Fulton/Hancock/McDonough/Schuyler John Meixner, Regional Supt. 130 S. Lafayette - Suite 200 Macomb IL Phone: (309) jmeixner@roe26.net Website: Lori Bilbrey 130 S. Lafayette - Suite 200 Macomb IL Phone: (309) , ext lbilbrey@roe26.net Counties Served: Fulton, Hancock, McDonough, and Schuyler The newly consolidated Regional Office of Education #26 provides a truancy prevention/intervention and alternative education program to the 18 school districts in Fulton, Hancock, McDonough, and Schuyler Counties. Our goal is to provide a truancy intervention and alternative education program designed to reduce the dropout and absenteeism rates and increase overall academic performance. Services provided through our truancy intervention component include truancy casework for underachieving students referred for high rates of absenteeism. An optional education program is offered to grades 9-12 through four alternative schools. These four alternative high schools provide a setting where credits can be generated toward graduation. Students attaining credit may graduate from their home district. A credit recovery option, utilizing the TAOEP statewide curriculum (Edgenuity) is also offered, allowing students to earn academic credit. Program staff work cooperatively with school staff, students, and parents/guardians to prepare an Individualized Optional Education Plan (IOEP) for each student participating in the program. Outcome-based learning objectives address an increase in attendance and goals that show gains in achievement level, grade promotion, improvement in academic grades, credits earned and/or completed, grade promotion, and standardized test score increases that are compatible with the home school district s local learning outcomes. Type of Service Offered: Truant Intervention (Supplemental Services) and Optional Education/Alternative Students Served: Potential Dropout, Dropout, Truant and Chronic Truant Grade of Students Served: K-12 Age of Students Served: 5-21 Program Sites: Academy for Secondary Education, Macomb; Hancock County Academy, Carthage; Spoon River Academy, Canton; McCall Academy, Canton 24