The project is an attempt, through vocational education, to educate the disinterested and disadvantaged high school individually prescribed education (identification, diagnosis, prescription, and program modification) and places heavy emphasis on the role of student ombudsman or advocate. (AG)

The Focus program deals with those students who perform well below their capacity socially and/or academically. It has as its main goal to decrease the incidence of alienation among these youth, the staff, and the community. Sub-goals include the reduction of alienation and improvement of self-concept, an increased access to desirable social…