Early Alert System and Method for Identifying and Assisting Students in Need at an Educational Institution

A method for identifying and assisting a student in need at an educational institution comprising:

• identifying the student in need by a member of the educational institution or a person with a relationship to the student in need;
• referring the student in need to a coordinator at the educational institution by communicating to the educational institution that the student in need has been identified by the member of the educational institution or the person with a relationship to the student;
• reviewing the referral by the coordinator to determine if the need of the student can be addressed by the educational institution;
• creating a student file that contains information previously known by the educational institution regarding the student in need, and able to store and gather further information regarding the student in need as it is input by at least one member of the educational institution or the coordinator;
• assigning a counselor to the student in need;
• assessing information relating to the student in need contained in the student file by the counselor;
• communicating with the student in need by the counselor to gather information about the student's need;
• communicating with the member of the educational institution or the person with a relationship to the student that referred the student in need by the counselor regarding the student in need.
• entering information regarding the student in need into the student file;
• coordinating by the counselor communication between the student in need and a person who is capable of rendering assistance to the student in need where the counselor and the student in need have determined that assistance should be rendered.

A method for identifying and assisting a student with a need at an educational institution comprising:

• another student, a peer, a parent, a staff, a faculty, or another person with a relationship to the student identifying the student with a need;
• said other student, peer, parent, staff, faculty or other person with a relationship to the student referring the student with a need to a coordinator;
• the coordinator reviewing the referral and need of the student with a need;
• the coordinator determining whether assistance should be rendered to the student in need, wherein if assistance will be rendered;
• the coordinator creating a file for the student in need;
• the coordinator assigning a counselor to the student in need;
• the counselor accessing the file of the student in need, wherein the file contains information previously known about the student in need, including present courses for which the student in need is registered;
• the counselor assessing the student in need and determining if assistance should be rendered, wherein if assistance should be rendered, the counselor contacting the student in need;
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• the counselor providing feedback to the person who referred the student in need to the coordinator.