Transcription of Truancy Reduction: Keeping Students in School
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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 ExecutiveOffi
tured: the ACT Now program oper-ated by the Pima County Attorney’s Office in Arizona and the Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program, a partnership with the Executive Office for Weed and Seed and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. Truancy is an early warning sign for future problems and should not be ignored.This Bulletin should assist
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