Therapeutic Mentoring -The Crossroads Therapeutice Mentoring Program serves 4th-8th graders in Kent County Public Schools who are identified as "at-risk" (difficulty maintaining positive relationships with teachers, peers, and parents; numerous disciplinary referrals; lacking social and communication skills; difficulty working in a cooperative group setting; withdrawn or indifferent). Mentors help to develop individualized plans with the school, home and other agencies, assist children with integrating into mainstream academic and after-school settings, and provide one-to-one assistance inthe classroom to increase the student's focus, on-task behavior, completion of assignments and assist with behavioral interventions.

School-Based Mental Health - School-Based Mental Health is a collaboration between For All Seasons, Inc., the Kent County Health Department, and Chester River Behavioral Health. Therapists from these entities provide mental thelath services to children at each of the public schools in Kent County. Individual, family and group sessions are provided. Funding fromthis grant also allows therapists to be paid for non-reimbursable direct services like attendance at IEP/504 meetings, teacher conferences, attendance at IAC/LCC meetings and attendance at pupil personnel meetings.

Adolescent Substance Abuse Counselor - An Adolescent Substance Counselor will be working to create a substance abuse counseling and education program that will operate at Kent County Middle Schools and the High School. Once the program logistics are established, the counselor will provide education, support and guidance to youth who have experienced mild to moderate chemical use-as well as their parents. This program is modeled after a program that successfully operates in Caroline County Public Schools, and the counselor there will be providing training for the counselor who will be serving Kent County.

Truancy Diversion Case Managers - In an effort to reduce truancy in Kent County, truancy diversion case managers will work to identify obstacles that are keeping students from attending school, and will work with schools, students, families and other service providers to remove those barriers.

Early Morning Drop-Off - This Early Morning Drop-Off program will operate for the 2008-2009 school year at Rock Hall Elementary, Rock Hall Middle, Galena Middle, and Chestertown Middle. This program allows for students at these schools to be dropped off and supervised at school from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. prior to the school day. A staff member or teacher will provide supervision and tutor students upon request.

Adult Education/Vocational Services/Family Support - The goal of the AE/VS/FS program is to provide a friendly, central location to build healthier, stronger, more economically independent families by: assisting parents to fulfillt heir aims related to school and employment, leading to self-sufficiency; assisting parents to fullfill their aims related to family life, leading to safe and stable families; and promoting optimal healthy development of young children through evidence-based parenting classes.

Adolescent Parent Support - The Adolescent Parent Support program operates at Kent County High School to support students who are expectant mothers, or are already mothers. The program provides bi-weekly meetings for expectant and youth mothers enrolled at KCHS. Meetings draw from evidence-based curriculum and also provide information on infant care, home safety, reading, domestic violence, budgeting, nutrition and other subjects of interest to participants. In doing this, the goals are to enhance protective factors to prevent low birth weight and infant mortality to teen mothers by providing prenatal and post-natal education at the high school; and to enhance protective factors to prevent students from dropping out by creating a teen support group which emphasizes the importance and opportunities for high school completion and college or vocational training.

Youth as Resources - The Youth as Resources program strengthens leadership among Kent Cuonty youth by offering leadership training and retreats to participating youth, along with supporting youth-led community services or volunteer initiatives. A component of the program is to create and implement mechanisms that document how youth-led initiatives are developed, as well as a mechanism for youth to seek and obtain funding for well-designed initiatives.

Home Visiting - The In-Home Intervention Program is a safety net to stabilize families who are in trouble. It is a program that effectively reaches fragile families by providing in-home support to make their homes safer for children, and to strengthen life skills and parenting skills. Families show gains from these in-home visits and enroll services at the Kent Family Center, where more specialized classes and assistance are provided with greater efficiency.

Youth 2 Youth - Youth 2 Youth (Y2Y) is a youth-led program that helps teens to develop a "real voice" in addressing issues important to them. Ownership and identification with this program has proven to be a positive means for enforcing a drug free lifestyle. Y2Y sends a clear-cut "No" message to tobacco, alcohol or any toher drug at any time.

Social Skills - The Social Skills program will operate at 4-5 of the public schools in Kent County (TBD) one day per week for six weeks at each of the schools identified during after-school program hours. The goal of social skills that students can use in and out of the classroom. Students will be identified and referred by their teachers.

Community Services Initiative (CSI) - The Community Services Initiative (CSI) program provides funding to divert or return youth who are in State custody from out-of-state and in-state residential placements. Funds are used to provide services and supports to keep youth in their homes and communities. A portion of these funds pay for care coordination services provided by Crossroads Community, Inc.

Rehab Option - The Rehab Option initiative provides funding for communty-based services and short-term community based out-of-home placements for children with mental health or developmental disabilities who are not in state custody. A portion of these funds pay for care coordination by Crossroads Community, Inc.