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

A method for identifying and assessing a student in a community displaying a deviation in personality not associated with academic performance comprising:

• identifying the student by a member of the community or a person with a relationship to the student, those members of the community and persons with a relationship to the student comprising a Circle of Care;
• referring the student to a coordinator by a member of the Circle of Care through the use of a software system interface to the coordinator, the coordinator being able to review the referral, said referral conveying that the student is displaying an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance;
• reviewing the referral by the coordinator to determine if there is a need of the student can be addressed by the community;
• creating a student file containing information previously known by the community regarding the student, and able to store and gather further information regarding the student as it is input by at least one member of the community, said file being able to be accessed, in part, by the Circle of Care to input additional information and communicate with another member of the Circle of Care, the coordinator, or the at least one member of the community;
• assigning a member of the community to the student in need where the coordinator has determined that a need of the student may be addressed by the community;
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• assessing information relating to the student contained in the student file by the member of the community.

A method for identifying and assessing a student in an academic community displaying a deviation in personality not-associated with academic performance comprising:

• another student, a peer, a parent, or another person with a relationship to the student identifying the student displaying an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance;
• said other student, peer, parent, or other person with a relationship to the student referring the student with a need to a staffed member of the community;
• said staffed member of the community contacting a coordinator;
• the coordinator reviewing the referral and need of the student, wherein the student's deviation in personality not associated with academic performance is due to an issue regarding, but not limited to, personality, behavior, financial stress, values, spiritual, mental, physical or social needs of the student;
• the coordinator determining whether assistance should be rendered to the student, wherein if assistance will be rendered;
• the staffed member of the community creating a file for the student;
• the staffed member of the community assigning a counselor to the student;
• the staffed member of the community accessing the file of the student previously created by the community, wherein the file contains information previously known about the student and integrating the file into a new file regarding the identification and assessment of the student displaying an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance;
• the staffed member of the community assessing the student and determining if assistance should be rendered, wherein if assistance should be rendered, the staffed member of the community contacting the student;
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• the staffed member of the community inputting information regarding determining if assistance should be rendered and communications with the student, and the staffed member of the community providing feedback to the person who referred the student in need to the coordinator wherein once a need not concurrently associated with present academic performance is resolved, the student is no longer a participant in the method, and the student file is for potential subsequent use.