2. Truancy Workgroup Members
Co-Chairs – Honorable John Kuhn & Cynthia Stoltz, Esq.
Members:
Courts Common Pleas Judges, MDJs, Hearing Officers, Court Administrators
Child Welfare DPW, CYF Administrators, Managers, Social Workers
Education PDE, PASA, PSBA, PAESSP, High School
Principals, Education Law Center
Juvenile Justice JCJC, Chief’s Association, PCCD

3. Workgroup Charge
Gather information about critical systemic issues in PA regarding truancy
Identify nationally recognized and PA truancy best practices
Outline an approach and a series of recommendations for reducing truancy in PA

4. Recommendations

5. Truancy Workgroup Recommendation 1
Demonstrate Effective Collaboration Efforts Including Sharing the Accountability and Responsibility for Truancy

6. Truancy Workgroup Recommendation 2
Create an Educational Culture/Climate that
Prioritizes Students’ Connection to their School
and Engages Families

7. Early Identification and Intervention
Truancy Workgroup Recommendation 3
Implement Specific Strategies with Measurable Outcomes Targeting Prevention,
Early Identification and Intervention

8. Truancy Workgroup Recommendation 4
Track Truancy Data and Program Outcomes
and Share Information with Stakeholders

9. Truancy Workgroup Recommendation 5
Build Sustainable Funding Bases
and Allocate Resources Based on
Data Informed Decisions and
Partnerships that Maximize Efficiencies

10. Next Steps Implementation Strategies
Support for communities to implement the recommendations
Communicate the message about the urgency of truancy

11. Next Steps Collaborate with JCJC to identify truancy
laws needing clarified or altered
3. Engage the medical community as a valued partner in addressing truancy at both the state and local levels

12. 5 Things Local Children’s Roundtables can do
Read the Report
Review your County’s School Truancy Data
Bring the Information back to the Local Children’s Roundtable
Start Identifying Community Stakeholders who may be Interested in discussing Truancy Issues
Begin a dialogue with Stakeholders

13. Truancy Report is available at: www.ocfcpacourts.us
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need to respond, I consider those people my heroes.”
- Fred Rogers
Truancy Report is available at: