An Analysis of Student Assistance Programs: Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Gleason Milgram

A questionnaire, designed to determine the process for identifying and providing assistance to students who demonstrate a variety of problem behaviors that interfere with learning or co-curricular performance in school, was mailed to school superintendents ( N = 1526) in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Four hundred and fifty-one responses (29.6%A) were received; the majority (84.7%) indicated that a formal written policy exists for helping students and most (82.5%) also have a formal written procedure. The assistance program, most frequently called student assistance, is predominantly found at high school level. A full-time student assistance counselor paid by the school district (43.2%) or a grant funded position (18.9%) conducts the program. Students in the three states use the services of the program for alcohol problems, drug problems, family problems, school behavior problems, academic problems, etc. The major referral sources to the assistance programs are teachers, guidance counselors, and the students themselves. The survey findings indicate that assistance programs for students in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York play a significant role in helping students who are experiencing problems and also positively impact on the school and the community.

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Gleason Milgram

A half-time Student Assistance Program (i.e., 20 hours per week) was designed and implemented for two semesters in an urban high school in New Jersey. The findings indicate that the proportion of the students who used the SAP increased with time. In both time periods, males outnumbered the females in use of the SAP and the most frequently cited of the presenting problems for both males and females were alcohol and drug issues and problems. Educators were the primary source of referral to the SAP.


1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Foote ◽  
John C Erfurt

Discussion of alcohol-focused us. comprehensive programs leads to the conclusion that the primary difference between the two program models is not the disease focus but the program structure. Programs focused on alcohol problems tend to emphasize the role of supervisors in identification and confrontation; programs focused more broadly tend to emphasize the role of the employee assistance program. Data relevant to these issues suggest that supervisors are no more likely than others within industrial organizations to identify employees having alcohol problems, although confrontation by a supervisor may have a greater impact. The EAP model was found to be more prevalent among larger plants than smaller ones. Programs that saw primarily alcoholics did not in general see more alcoholics than programs that provided services for a wider variety of problems, as long as at least one-third of the client group had alcohol problems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
Robert Schulte

NJ Studies is pleased to present the teaching unit that won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance (NJSAA) 2018 Teaching Award. Per NJSAA, Robert Schulte’s award “recognizes the innovative nature of this unit about federalism and the government response to the disaster of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The lesson is intended for students at the high school level, but can easily be modified for the middle school as well. Also, teachers can substitute any natural disaster that might face New Jersey to replace the zombie scenario if they are so inclined.”


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Dhika Amalia Kurniawan

<p>This study aims to explore further information about the background, the profile of the informal sectors sector in east java. The identification results can be utilized in various matters : policy formulation, identify problems informal sectormapping of a strategy to build competitive advantage for informal sectors. This study used quantitative approach and the data collection techniques used are survey methods using questionnaires. Data analysis techniques is descriptive statistic test. The sample used is mostly informal sectors in east java by the number of samples used by 250 respondents. This study shows that the profile of informal sector business actors in East Java can be seen that based on the aspect of gender differences, informal sectors were dominated by respondents with female genitalia. Based on the aspect of marital status, informal sectoris dominated by married respondents with a percentage of 81.6%, based on the aspect of age distribution, informal sectors are dominated by respondents aged 40-49 years, with a percentage of 37.6%. Based on the aspect of education level, East Java informal sectorwas dominated by respondents with high school level education with a percentage of 62.8%. Based on the aspect of ownership of expertise before entrepreneurship, informal sectorwith the same percentage, the respondents already have expertise in entrepreneurship and some do not have expertise before trying. Based on the aspect of the number of full time workers in their business, East Java informal sectoronly has one worker in their business operations, with a percentage of 40.8%.</p><p><br />Keyword : Informal Sector, East Java, Bussiness.</p>


2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl I. Fertman ◽  
Cele Fichter ◽  
Jo Schlesinger ◽  
Susan Tarasevich ◽  
Holly Wald ◽  
...  

This article presents data from an evaluation of the Pennsylvania Student Assistance Program (SAP). Focusing on both program process and effectiveness, the evaluation was conducted to determine the overall efficacy of SAPs in Pennsylvania and, more specifically, how SAP is currently being implemented. Five data collection strategies were employed: statewide surveys of SAP team members and county administrators, focus groups, site visits, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education SAP Database. A total of 1204 individual team members from 154 school buildings completed the team member survey. Fifty-three county administrators completed the county administrator survey. Focus groups were comprised of SAP coordinators, school board personnel and community agency staff. Site visits were conducted at five schools. The findings of the evaluation indicate that SAP in Pennsylvania is being implemented as designed. Recommended is the development of benchmarks and indicators that focus on the best SAP practices and the extent to which various indicators of the effectiveness of SAP are occurring at appropriate levels.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Danilo Bastos Moreno ◽  
César Augusto Barroso de Andrade ◽  
Maria Emanuela Cordeiro Alves ◽  
Leonardo Coelho Rodrigues

INTRODUÇÃO: A Educação Básica no Brasil passou por momentos bem conturbados durante a década de 2010. Dentre esses momentos pode-se destacar a evolução da MP n° 746/2016 para a Lei 13.415/2017 e a instituição do Novo Ensino Médio. A partir desta Lei, a Educação Física (EF) poderia ser excluída do rol de disciplinas curriculares obrigatórias da Educação Básica. Em meio a esse cenário, vários movimentos foram realizados para manter a EF como obrigatória na etapa do Ensino Médio na escola. OBJETIVO: Verificar a percepção dos gestores de escolas de ensino médio, pertencentes a rede pública do estado do Ceará, sobre a importância das aulas de EF.  MÉTODOS: O estudo caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa de campo e exploratória, com caráter transversal quanti-qualitativo, com a aplicação de um questionário do tipo Likert, com itens de múltipla escolha acerca de cada pergunta, variando as opções entre “discordo total”, “discordo parcialmente”, “concordo parcialmente” e “concordo totalmente”.  Participaram do estudo gestores de escolas regulares e profissionalizantes. A amostra do estudo foi composta por 40 gestores de escolas regulares e de tempo integral de um total de 119 escolas, perfazendo 33% das escolas elencadas como público para o atual estudo. A coleta de dados ocorreu dentre os anos de 2018 e 2019. RESULTADOS: Foi achado que os gestores consideram a EF como importante à formação integral do estudante (92,5%), que a carga horária semanal deveria ser aumentada (62,5%) e que a disciplina contribui para uma melhoria da prática de atividade física dos estudantes. CONCLUSÃO: A partir da percepção dos gestores das escolas estaduais da cidade de Fortaleza (CE), o componente curricular EF é importante para a formação dos estudantes. Bem como, eles consideram que a carga horária da disciplina poderia ser aumentada por conta da importante influência da disciplina sobre a prática de atividade física.ABSTRACT. Perception of high school managers in Fortaleza on the importance of physical education as curriculum component.BACKGROUND: The Basic Education in Brazil has been through hard moments during 2010 decade. Among these moments, can be put in the spotlight the advance from the MP n° 746/2016 into 13.415/2017 Law and the institutionalization of the New High School level in Brazil. Through this new law, the Physical Education could be excluded from the group of essencial disciplines in the Basic Education. Due to this, many struggling movements took place in order to maintain the Physical Education as an essencial discipline in Basic Education. OBJECTIVE: The research investigated the perception of managers of high schools, belonging to the public network of the state of Ceará, Brazil, on the importance of PE classes. METHODS: The study is characterized as a field and exploratory research, with a quantitative and qualitative cross-sectional character, with the application of a Likert-type questionnaire, with multiple choice items about each question, varying the options between “total disagree”, “Partially disagree”, “partially agree” and “totally agree”. Managers of regular and professional schools participated in the study. Thus, the sample of the present study was composed of 40 regular and full-time school managers from a total of 119 schools, making up 33% of the schools listed as public for the current study. Data collection took place between the years 2018 and 2019. RESULTS: The managers consider the PE important in contribution to the student´s integral formation (92,5%), the workload should be increased (62,5%) and that the discipline contributes to an increase in the amount of the student´s physical activity practice. CONCLUSION: Based on the perception of managers of state schools in the city of Fortaleza-CE, the Physical Education curricular component is important for the formation of students. As well, they consider that the workload of the discipline could be increased due to the important influence of the discipline on the practice of physical activity.


2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Barnhill ◽  
Katherine F. King

As concerns about the negative health effects of unhealthy eating and overweight/obesity increase, so too do efforts to combat obesity. Both the federal government, as well as state and local governments, have proposed and implemented a variety of healthy eating and obesity prevention policies. Many of these policies are controversial, facing objections that range from the practical (e.g., the policy will not succeed at improving people's diets) to the ethical (e.g., the policy is paternalistic or inequitable). In this paper, we consider one such policy — restrictions on food assistance programs that are meant to improve participants’ diet — and one criticism of these policies, that they are inequitable. We take as our primary example the recent, unsuccessful effort by New York State to exclude sweetened beverages from the items eligible for purchase in New York City with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps).


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