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ERIC Number: ED387712
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 6
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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An Integrated Community Approach to Truancy. Promising Programs Profile.
This program outlines the combined efforts of schools, social service agencies, community agencies, and the juvenile court system to reduce days lost by truancy. Also presented are the services necessary to support long-range remediation of truancy and related risk factors. The program was initiated at an inner-city public school with approximately 450 sixth through eighth-grade students ranging in age from 11 to 16 years old. The target population was students with absences of 20 or more days--25 percent of the total student body. Some of the services provided to these students included assessment, referral to community resources, service planning, case work and group work, court liaison activities, and transportation. Other details highlighted for this plan are the type of staff used--such as, guidance coordinator, school nurse, and Masters of Social Work Interns--and the percentage Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) devoted to the program; program costs; problems encountered--such as limited resources of community agencies--and solutions; program accomplishments; evaluation data; publications describing/evaluating the Program; and other relevant information. Results show that the program was one-third fully effective, one-third partially effective, and one-third minimally effective. The school recorded a significant decrease in absentee rate in the fall when compared to the previous fall. (RJM)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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