Pursuant to RSA 189:59, I, program participants shall:

1. (a) Provide and coordinate services designed to assist pupils in the successful completion of high school;
2. (b) Encourage individual, corporate, and state support and involvement to promote employment opportunities for New Hampshire's students;
3. (c) Render assistance in ensuring student placement in quality jobs with ample career opportunities;
4. (d) Encourage students to pursue postsecondary education by assisting in securing appropriate part-time work to accompany that education;
5. (e) Encourage lifelong learning by introducing students to the importance of skills training and demonstrating how learning is relevant to skills necessary in the workplace;
6. (f) Provide tutoring, study skills training, and instruction leading to successful completion of secondary school, including dropout prevention strategies through a school-site mentor;
7. (g) Provide alterative secondary school services with high academic standards;
8. (h) Deliver pre-employment and work maturity skill training, paid and unpaid work, work-based learning experiences that teach all aspects of industry-specific and general workplace competencies, including internships, job shadowing, and school sponsored workplace mentoring;
9. (i) Provide opportunities which may include community service and peer-centered activities encouraging responsibility and other positive social behaviors during non-school hours, including linking youth and adult mentoring, as appropriate;
10. (j) Provide support services and transitional links that assist students in the elimination of barriers; and
11. (k) Establish an 85 percent graduation rate and a 90 percent return to school rate for pupils most likely to drop out as performance goals for program participants.

Source. #8582, eff 3-15-06; ss by #10649, eff 7-26-14