The Carolina Works initiative presents the opportunity to validate the effectiveness of a student intervention strategy at ten colleges across the North Carolina Community College System. This initiative is funded through the Department of Education’s First in the World grant initiative. Proactive success coaching has been proven to remove academic barriers leading to increases in persistence and completion rates (Bettinger & Baker, 2011). This project will introduce proactive Success Coach practice statewide to validate the effectiveness of the intervention on academic outcomes with high-risk students.  Presented at the NACADA Regional Conference in Chattanooga, TN on April 22, 2016.