The Institute on Community Integration's Check & Connect has signed a 10-year licensing agreement with New Zealand’s Ministry of Education to adapt the popular dropout prevention program’s core implementation manual as part of the country’s positive behavior support initiatives.
Under the agreement, New Zealand education officials will add specific examples and cultural context to the manual, Implementing with Fidelity. ICI staff will review the adaptations to ensure the guide retains the theoretical components and steps for implementing Check & Connect.
“New Zealand is one of our longstanding partners, dating back to an open enrollment training in 2012,” said Eileen Klemm, director of Check & Connect. For the last several years, after early results showed strong progress among schools using the program, education officials have been implementing the program widely as part of their Positive Behavior for Learning (PB4L) initiative. PB4L is similar to the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework used widely in the United States.
