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Truancy Reduction: Keeping Students in School
Department of JusticeOffice of Justice ProgramsOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention September 2001A Message From OJJDPEach School day, hundreds of thou-sands of Students are missing fromtheir classrooms many without abona fide unchecked, Truancy is a risk fac-tor for serious juvenile s impact also extends intothe adult years where it has beenlinked to numerous negative out-comes. Consequently, it is criticalto identify strategies that interveneeffectively with youth who are chroni-cally truant and that interrupt theirprogress to delinquency and othernegative behaviors by addressingthe underlying reasons behind theirabsence from Bulletin provides an overviewof the problem of Truancy ; describesthe correlations of family, School ,economic, and student factors withtruancy; notes Truancy s role as apredictor of delinquency, includingjuvenile daytime crime; and talliestruancy s social and financial OJJDP-funded projects are fea-tured: the ACT Now program oper-ated by the Pima County Attorney sOffice in Arizona and the TruancyReduction Demonstration Program,a partnership with the ExecutiveOffice for Weed and Seed and theSafe and Drug-Free is an early warning sign forfuture problems and should not beignored.
stration Program (TRDP) and the TRDP evaluation. Overview of the Truancy Problem Every day, hundreds of thousands of youth are absent from school; many are absent without an excuse and deemed truant. Although national data on truancy rates are not available (in part because no uni-form definition of truancy exists), many
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