Project COPE provides supportive services, basic skills, career development, and occupational training to limited English proficient (LEP) students at three New York City high schools. Many COPE students are also limited in their ability to read and write in their native languages. Program participants in 1983-84 included: 173 Spanish-dominant students at John F. Kennedy High School; 82 Haitians at Prospect Heights High School; and 45 Italian-dominant students at Christopher Columbus High School. At each site, students received instruction in English as a second language, and some native language arts and content-area classes were offered. Title VII funds supported administrative and supportive services, and paraprofessional staff positions. In 1983-84, the first year of a three-year funding cycle, curriculum materials were developed by resource teachers at each site. Counseling services helped students deal with problems at home, in job-seeking, and in coping with an unfamiliar society. Although staff development activities were limited, Project COPE's major strength was its staff. The project functioned best at John F. Kennedy, where a bilingual philosophy and program was already in place. Program objectives relating to students, English language achievement and attitudes toward native heritage and school were met, but the objectives for content-area class achievement and staff development were not. Nine recommendations to enhance program effectiveness are presented. (KH)