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Youth and Intervention
TRUANCY REDUCTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM

Truancy Reduction and Prevention Program is to implement a comprehensive plan that will periodically assess and prioritize the community's risk factors associated with truancy and delinquent behavior and successfully develop strategies that will reduce and prevent truancy.

Truancy is implemented in four (4) neighborhoods: Village Green, Unionville, Fort Hill and Lynmore. Each day the truancy coordinators meets at assigned school in the area and make contact with the school council to get referrals on students that are truant. Twenty- seven (27) students have been identified by the Board of Education as benchmark student. During the summer eighty - (80) students were monitor due to excessive truant issue during the school calendar year. There were four (4) parents that was arrested due to their child been truant and warrants had been signed.

Truancy coordinators are educating themselves by attending workshops and training sessions facilitated by the Board of Education. The goal is to redirect the students back into the school system while educating both the parent and the student.

Contact

Mr. Charles Dudley
Phone: 478-784-9258