The mission and overall goal of the BRIC at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is to implement and evaluate the effects of school-wide programs designed to prevent serious behavior and reading problems of students in kindergarten through third grade at-risk for failure. Children participating in the project (a) come from backgrounds of poverty as indicated by high rates of free or reduced lunch (b) live in neighborhoods with high violent crime rates (c) experience marked difficulties learning to read and/or exhibit behaviors that lead to discipline problems, and (d) likely develop high rates of school problems that are viewed as the foundation for identification with emotional disturbance and learning disabilities if not corrected. Schools participating in the project serve a large percentage of children with this profile and share a commitment to school-wide adoption, implementation, and evaluation of systematic, research-based, and unified primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies for addressing behavior and reading challenges.