The OIH works with staff to ensure care for young adults and children that struggle with academic get support from OIH team/leadership on the way forward that will allow them to engage, listen and motivated to overcome barriers related to their education. It is through learning contextual learning that OIH will provide opportunities that will support students to make a better decision and choice for their future. The connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers. In networking, it is throughout Contextual learning includes but is not limited to service learning, work-based education, project-based learning, and capstone projects. It vital for OIH to support the expansion of the school year/structured learning time and summer transition programs. Many students who are in danger of or who are at risk of not accessing school are often overage and have severe academic deficits, such as being under-credited toward high school graduation or lacking literacy, numeracy, and other academic skills. Often more time is needed to complete high school; thus, the expansion of learning time opportunities may also provide enrichment and socio-emotional support to increase school engagement and prepare students for academic success.

In addition, the OIH believe that system and program are specifically designed to serve students that lack the resources to get into college or university that include mostly Immigrants, Refugees, and Newcomers that need to improve on their English language before getting to college. The OIH programs are intended to accelerate English language acquisition, develop academic content vocabulary and higher-level thinking skills, promote the development of social and educational skills that students will need when entering district high schools, build a foundation for long-term academic and socio-cultural success. In relation to promoting education, the OIH believes that Culture and Behavioral Health refers to all students social, emotional, and behavioral well-being, including those with mental health needs. Students’ behavioral health is intricately connected to academic, social, and emotional success at school.

The OIH Pathway and Development for access to college, and university to career, and civic readiness are intentional educational structures within a school system that enable students to build agency, identify personal interests, strengths, and talents, identify career interests aligned with those strengths and skills, and understand the connection of academic learning and future success. Therefore, a career and academic plan is developing a scope and sequence of lessons and activities implemented for dropout students to support the development of individual skills, interests, and talents that will drive the identification of careers of interest and align with course selections along with postsecondary choices.