This section houses two types of resources. Session Resources include the main text for each day of this event, as well as supplementary materials. Additional Resources include links to other organizations and publications about truancy.

Session Resources

Day 1 - The Varied Causes and Consequences of Truancy

• Different Dimensions of Truancy

• Barriers to School Attendance

• Truancy and Delinquency

• Truancy and School Dropout

• Risk Factors for Problem Behaviors Among Youth

• Protective Factors Against Problem Behaviors Among Youth

• Collaborating with Partners to Address Truancy Problems

• Fact Sheet: Truancy Rates and Related Problems

Day 2 - Prevention: The Importance of School Connectedness

• 10 Things a School Can Do To Improve Attendance

• Wingspread Declaration on Student Connections to School

• Social Development Strategy

• State Laws Regarding School Attendance

• Sample Community Service Radio Announcement

• Granite School District's Attendance Program

• Promoting Parent and Community Involvement

• Youth Involvement in Prevention Programming

Day 3 - Early Intervention: Addressing Emerging Truancy Problems

• Independence Public Schools Truancy Sweep Initiative

• Key Features of the Check and Connect Model

• Targeting Truancy Interventions to Minority Youth

• Elements of Successful Alternative Schools

Day 4 - Legal Intervention: Tackling the Hardest Cases

• Creating a Truancy Diversion Team: The Louisville Experience

• Truancy, Literacy, and the Courts: A User's Manual for Setting up a Truancy Intervention Program

• The Becca Bill and The Becca Process

• Steps for Establishing a Community Truancy Board

Day 5 - Putting it All Together

• Three Levels of Antitruancy Strategies

• Assessing Truancy Problems in Your Area

• TRDP evaluation model

• Logic model description for the TRDP evaluation

• Logic model example of a results-based truancy program

• Additional Resources

Additional Resources

• Organizations

• Publications

• Evidence-based Programs