Drop-Out Prevention: Coping with Family Stress DVD
- Recommended for grades 7-12
- This program tells the story of three teens whose family stress is affecting their academic performance and threatening their ability to stay in school
- Assisted by mentors, teachers, and counselors, these teens learn about available resources that can help their families surmount their crises and allow them to focus on school
- Offers advice on how viewers can initiate contact with agencies that can help their families
Grade level: 7-12. This program tells the story of three teens whose family stress is affecting their academic performance and threatening their ability to stay in school.
Assisted by mentors, teachers, and counselors, these teens learn about available resources that can help their families surmount their crises and allow them to focus on school.
Offers advice on how viewers can initiate contact with agencies that can help their families.
Based on real-life dramatizations this program shows how using available school and community resources to deal with family problems can help teens stay in school and graduate.
Emphasizes that dropping out in today's job market will have serious economic and social consequences in the future. 19-minutes, Leader's Guide available online.