Completing behavior checklists. More serious behaviors are addressed via home-school notes or parent support for student contracts. Expenses for parents to attend training. Consultant fees for a certified trainer. After school events for parents and children require additional school budgets for materials and agreement from the staff for volunteer time once per month or paid compensation.
Procedural checks indicate that trained teachers are reliable in managing peer tutoring sessions.
Curriculum-based assessments showed improvements for participants. Significant differences between the target and control-wait group have been noted for some behaviors but not all. Effectiveness of parent support programs for the project is currently measured via parent report. In addition, parents have increased their participation with schools over time. All schools were located in an urban school district primarily serving students from low to middle social-economic status families.