Early alert system and method for identifying and assisting students in need at an educational institution

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

• identifying the student by a member of an educational institution or a person with a relationship to the student, those members of the educational institution 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 almost immediately, said referral conveying that the student is displaying an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance;
• reviewing the referral by the coordinator using said software system requiring a computer processor to determine if there is a need of the student can be addressed by the educational institution;
• creating a student file using a computer processor that contains information previously known by the educational institution 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 educational institution or the coordinator, said file being able to be accessed through the software system interface, in part, by the Circle of Care to input additional information and communicate with another member of the Circle of Care, the coordinator, or a counselor;
• assigning the counselor to the student in need through the use of the software system;
• assessing information relating to the student contained in the student file stored by the computer processor by the counselor;
• communicating with the student by the counselor to gather information about the student's display of an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance and inputting that information into the student's file with the software system;
• communicating with the Circle of Care by the counselor regarding the student in need and inputting the information into the student's file with the software system;
• entering information using the software system regarding the student in need into the student file by the coordinator;
• coordinating, by the counselor, communication between the student and a person who is capable of rendering assistance to the student where the counselor and the student have determined that assistance should be rendered, wherein records of said assistance are input using the software system into the student's file;
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• wherein after assistance is rendered to the student by said person who is capable of rendering assistance, the student file is not deleted from the software system and the student is no longer a participant in the method.

A method for identifying and assessing a student in an academic community displaying an 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 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 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 coordinator, using a computer processor and software system, creating a file for the student;
• the coordinator assigning a counselor to the student through the software system;
• the counselor accessing the file of the student previously created by the community, wherein the file contains information previously known about the student, including present courses for which the student in need is registered and integrating the file into a new file regarding he identification and assessment of the student displaying an deviation in personality not associated with academic performance;
• the counselor assessing the student and determining if assistance should be rendered, wherein if assistance should be rendered, the counselor contacting the student;
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• the counselor inputting information regarding determining if assistance should be rendered and communications with the student, and the counselor providing feedback to the person who referred the student in need to the coordinator wherein once 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 retained by the software system and computer processor for potential subsequent use.