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The monitoring component is critical to helping
young people gain awareness of their need for behavior change
and for charting their progress toward success. The additional
school and parent reinforcement components foster the development
of a broader network of support and social activities for helping
high-risk youth achieve the desired behavioral changes. Thereby,
they assist in program goal achievement and in preventing relapse
of problem behaviors.
Reconnecting
Youth combines four key program components. It involves
and encourages both the support of parents and the larger school
system in goal achievement for its at-risk youth participants.
It is a partnership among the parents, the Reconnecting Youth
group leaders, school personnel, and the students themselves
for:
• Support and Caring-to enhance a feeling
of acceptance and belonging
• Skills Training-to enhance protective
factors and greater resiliency
• Monitoring-of school achievement and attendance,
drug involvement, and moods to help establish and maintain control
• School and Parent Reinforcements-to enhance
goal achievement and prevent relapse
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