Lena Pope Home, Inc. offers a variety of services in collaboration with the Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) and the Crowley Independent School District to provide alternative education opportunities to students who are experiencing problems in a traditional classroom setting. The primary focus of these programs is to teach the students appropriate classroom behaviors, while maintaining and enhancing their academic skills. Currently, Lena Pope Home operates four alternative schools, as well as provides consultative and therapeutic services to alternative educational programs operated by other entities. A description of Lena Pope Home's programs follows.
Program Descriptions
- Solutions is an alternative program for regular and special education high school students experiencing difficulties with alcohol and/or drugs. Students found in possession of marijuana, cocaine, and/or other drugs are referred to the program. Students who are expelled for other behaviors and have substance abuse issues may also be referred.
- Insights Learning Center (Community Alternative Program). Insights is an alternative, non-traditional educational setting for regular and special education elementary students who are experiencing significant difficulty in traditional school settings by displaying consistently disruptive behavior, developmentally inappropriate behavior, impaired functioning, severe academic deficiencies and ineffective social skills.
- Choices serves regular and special education youth in middle and high school who have violated the Fort Worth ISD's zero tolerance policy for violence, weapons or other offenses.
- Alternative Education Consulting Services. Lena Pope Home staff provide psychological and social services, teacher education and program development, including parenting classes, social skills training and process groups.
- Services are provided at the following high schools:
- Carter Riverside
- Diamond Hill
- Eastern Hills
- O.D. Wyatt
- Paschal
- South Hills
- Southwest
- Services are provided at the following middle schools:
- Dunbar 6th
- Dunbar
- Handley
- J.P. Elder
- Kirkpatrick
- Leonard 6th
- McLean 6th
- McLean
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- Meadowbrook
- Monnig
- Morningside
- Riverside
- Rosemont
- Stripling
- Wedgwood 6th
- Wedgwood
- William James
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PhilosophyThe rationale for providing alternative educational programs exists in the knowledge that students do their best academically when they have the opportunity to experience success in their educational environment and which is reinforced daily in a family that functions well.
Admission CriteriaEligibility includes:
- Youth served by the Fort Worth ISD or Crowley ISD.
- Youth who have exhausted other less restrictive settings.
- Youth with serious emotional problems.
- Youth exhibiting severe behavior problems.
- Youth with alcohol and/or other drug issues.
- Youth must be referred by their school district.
Treatment ComponentsServices offered by Fort Worth ISD and Crowley ISD include:
- Individualized educational planning.
- Academic instruction
Services offered by Lena Pope Home:
- Behavior Management Program
- Therapeutic Services
- Home-Based Intervention
- Community Living Skills
- Career Exploration
- Substance Abuse Intervention
Completion CriteriaEvaluation of the youth's progress toward attainment of his/her objectives is computed daily and points are earned for appropriate behaviors. Progression through the level system results in the youth's successful completion of the program.
