START was a dropout prevention project funded by Alberta Education and Alberta/NWT Region Human Resources Development Canada, successor to Employment and Immigration Canada. START addressed dropout prevention through a variety of school and community initiatives primarily targeting students in the junior high school years. In the 1993-94 school year, 9 START projects were funded involving 7 jurisdictions with 14 schools and 741 students. This Provincial Perspectives report provides an overall view of the program as of June 30, 1994, summarizing and combining information from the year-end reports, and gives reports of the Culture Free Self Esteem Inventory taken by START students. Data from pretests and posttests with this instrument indicate that the START program had a generally positive effect on self-esteem of students. Evaluating consultants concluded that all projects were able to reduce dropouts significantly, with three of the projects appearing to be especially effective. All of the four schools that measured academic achievement documented some improvement in mathematics and reading that could be attributed to the project. The variety and complexity of the information made it impossible to determine the comparative effects of the various interventions. An appendix presents evaluation reporting forms. A separate 7-page "Evaluative Summary" has been appended. (Contains 1 figure, 2 charts, 12 tables, and 6 references.) (SLD)