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Career and Postsecondary Encouragement Network presents
The Universal Encouragement Program

Counselors:

The Career and Postsecondary Encouragement Network presents the Universal Encouragement Program, an online guidance assessment, reporting, and communications system for secondary schools and educational support programs. The data collection system targets students in grades 6-12. Encouragement Services, Inc., an Indiana-based nonprofit corporation, makes the system available nationally at no cost to schools and education support programs. The assessments are available in two forms: form 1 for students in grades 6-8 and form 2 for students in grades 9-12. Both forms are available in
English and Spanish.

The assessments create detailed student and group profiles that inform counseling, guidance programming, and school improvement efforts. The assessments provide a useful tool for tailoring guidance programming to student needs and measuring the impact of guidance, career development, academic counseling, and other interventions.

Factor-based reports 1) indicate student preferences and interests in participating in a variety of guidance programs and academic services, 2) indicate risk factors for school disengagement and dropping out, and 3) identify risk factors for not continuing education or training beyond high school. Within the factor-based reports is a communications utility that enables targeted electronic communication with students and their parent/guardians.

All of the system-generated reports and data analysis tools are available immediately upon the submission of data by students.

For additional information and to view samples of the assessments and reports, go to
http://www.capenetwork.org/docs.htm.

To register a school or education support program, go to http://www.capenetwork.org.