The OHA director organized biannual meetings with district school administrators, principals, teachers, school counselors, OHA residential program staff, and elected officers of the housing projects. The group's early meetings focused on strategies for dealing with the high dropout rate through homework assistance and constructive after-school activities in an atmosphere where learning and success in school are valued. Partnership members continue to meet twice a year to discuss the study center program. The volunteers provide individualized help with homework in math, reading, and social studies, and assistance using computers and printers to complete homework or special projects. Students can choose from software including WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Reader Rabbit, and Math Rabbit.
Many volunteers also encourage journal writing.
Regularly scheduled special projects include math and science contests, publication of a quarterly housing project community newsletter, presentations by OHA drug and alcohol education coordinators, and team sports events. In one such experiment, elementary school students dissected owl droppings to discover mouse bones. OPS supplies the centers with public school textbooks as a resource for volunteers and to help students who forget their books. Students check out these books and discuss them with a tutor upon completion. The resident relations coordinator at each housing project runs the study centers, making sure that volunteers are available and serving as a central contact for teachers, school staff, or community members who may have concerns about students.