The LHS counselor for the incoming 2006 tenth grade students will have the clearest picture of their attitudes and behaviors. Utilizing this established relationship, the Lopez counselor will actively recruit students from the target population. All applicants will be presented with questions from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the responses will be used to aid in the selection of participants.

In consultation with the Lopez counselor, the Prevention Specialist will select and rank, according to perceived risk, fifty potential participants from the target population applicants. The first forty will be admitted as the initial cohort, and the remaining ten will be alternates and allowed to join the project in ranked order as vacancies occur. Should additional alternates be required, they will be selected in the same manner as the original participants. The criteria for recruiting and selecting prospective participants will be:

• * LHS first-time tenth grader.
  
  
• *Meets school district criteria for at-risk classification
  (must qualify in at least two categories including behavioral and academic)
  
  
• *Currently exhibits risky behavior, or is at-risk of developing risk behaviors, as determined by the Porter counselor and the results of the survey
  
• *Must be willing to commit to participation in the project for three years
  
  
• *Must be willing to invest: at least 5 hours per week during the school year to program activities; 15 hours per week over eight weeks in the summer, for job placement; and 20 hours per week for three weeks of the intensive summer program.