ABSTRACT
The overall intent of Project ACHIEVE is to guide a school reform process that will improve teaching and learning at the school level, specifically with at-risk students, their families, and the teachers who work with them. Project ACHIEVE was conceptualized as a comprehensive, systemic approach to service delivery that includes primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention components. The complexity of the problems of society, as evidenced in the schools, is too great to suggest a simple, or singular, approach to problem solving and prevention. A school reform project that addresses the particular needs of at-risk students is described. The school project is analyzed within the context of Gerald caplan organizational consultation principles. Consultee-centered administrative consultation is analogous to consultee-centered case consultation, but addresses those administrator blindspots that interfere with the development of needed or innovative programs for at-risk students. Caplan’s discussions of consultation skills in the context of change have focused heavily on relationship building.
