10 Things a School Can Do To Improve Attendance
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides a checklist of measures schools can take to decrease truancy and improve school attendance.

The 1999 School Attendance Initiative Evaluation
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet outlines the evaluation for the Multnomah County School Attendance Initiative.

Best Practices in Developing Truancy Reduction Programs
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet identifies five elements of a comprehensive community and educational strategy to combat truancy.

Colorado Juvenile Information Exchange Laws: A Model for Implementation
National Center for School Engagement
This document serves as a model interagency agreement for the exchange of information concerning juveniles, ensuring open communication among involved agencies.

Co-occurrence of Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, November 2000
This bulletin examines the overlap of serious delinquency with drug use, problems in school, and mental health problems.

The Costs and Benefits of Three Intensive Interventions with Colorado Truants
National Center for School Engagement, October 2003
This report illustrates the benefits of three truancy reduction programs in Colorado and contends that the associated costs are minimal when compared with the large price society pays for high school failure and juvenile delinquency.

Detangling Data Collection: Methods for Gathering Data
Harvard Family Research Project, August 2004
This document describes common data collection methods, including surveys and questionnaires, interviews and focus groups, observations, tests and assessments, and secondary sources and data reviews.

Developmental Pathways in Boys' Disruptive and Delinquent Behavior
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, December 1997
This bulletin summarizes longitudinal research from the Pittsburgh Youth Study, which has documented three developmental pathways that boys follow as they progress toward more serious problem behaviors.

Exemplary & Promising Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Programs 2001
U.S. Department of Education, April 2002
This report describes exemplary and promising programs identified in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Education's Safe, Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools expert panel.

Guide to Frugal Evaluation for Criminal Justice
Maxfield, M.G. February 2001
This report explains various evaluation methods, including approaches to design, measurement, and data collection and analysis, that produce useful findings at relatively low cost.

How Can a School Achieve High Levels of Parental and Community Involvement?
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
This fact sheet lists keys to success for parental and community involvement in schools.

Joint Efforts To Improve School Attendance
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides guidelines for coordinating efforts at the state and local levels to improve school attendance.

The Logic Model for the Evaluation of the Truancy Reduction Program
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides information on using a logic model to evaluate OJJDP's Truancy Reduction Demonstration Program and to identify successful and effective interventions for keeping youth in school.

Model Truancy Prevention Programs
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides an overview of effective truancy prevention programs nationwide.

OJJDP Evaluation Model
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides an outline of the goals and objectives created by OJJDP for the 1998 Truancy Reduction Demonstration Project Evaluation.

Overcoming Barriers To School Reentry
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, October 2004
This fact sheet describes a model for overcoming barriers to school reentry developed by the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services in New York City.

Overview of Truancy
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of the problem of truancy, highlighting its prediction of delinquency and future problems.

Promoting Quality Through Professional Development: A Framework for Evaluation
Harvard Family Research Project, August 2004
This document highlights professional development initiatives such as staff recruitment, training, and development and the impact of such initiatives on youth outcomes and program success.

Saving Money, Saving Youth: The Financial Impact of Keeping Kids in School
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children, October 2003
This report provides the costs and estimated benefits of three truancy reduction programs in Colorado, illustrating that the costs of each program pale in comparison to the large price society pays for high school failure and juvenile delinquency.

School Connectedness—Strengthening Health and Education Outcomes for Teenagers (Journal of School Health), 2004
The articles in this journal conclude that student success can be improved through strengthened bonds with school and that increased school connectedness is related to educational motivation, classroom engagement, and better attendance, leading to higher academic achievement.

School Dropouts: Education Could Play a Stronger Role in Identifying and Disseminating Promising Prevention Strategies
U.S. Government Accountability Office, February 2002
This Government Accountability Office report to Congress examines the dropout prevention efforts underway by federal, state, and local governments.

Selected Topics on Youth Courts: A Monograph
National Youth Court Center, May 2004
Based on a focus-group discussion, research, and promising practices related to truancy reduction, this paper provides an overview of the scope of the problem of truancy, benefits in addressing truancy in youth courts, effective strategies for working with truants, and benchmarks for youth courts to use when measuring success in truancy-reduction efforts. (See the first article, "Addressing Truancy in Youth Court Programs.")

Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, May 1998
This bulletin provides information on serious and violent juvenile offenders, who are substantially different from typical juveniles involved in delinquent conduct and who are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime.

Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, February 2007
This toolkit outlines critical components of truancy programs such as family involvement, use of incentives and sanctions, developing a support network, and program evaluation.

Truancy: Costs and Benefits
National Center for School Engagement
This fact sheet provides facts and figures on the individual and societal costs of truancy.

Truancy: First Step to a Lifetime of Problems
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, October 1996
This bulletin describes seven promising community programs that are reducing truancy and juvenile delinquency by enlisting and coordinating a broad array of local resources.

Truancy Reduction: Keeping Students in School
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, September 2001
This bulletin highlights major research findings regarding the problem of truancy and illustrates why communities should work to prevent and reduce its incidence.

Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuse: Initial Findings
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, March 1994
This bulletin presents findings from three longitudinal surveys being conducted in Denver, CO, Pittsburgh, PA, and Rochester, NY, that are examining the causes and correlates of juvenile delinquency and juvenile drug use.

What Is Truancy?
National Center for School Engagement
This fact sheet provides an overview of truancy, highlighting the familial, social, educational, and psychological factors that contribute to it.

Youth Out of School: Linking Absence to Delinquency
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children, September 2002
This report outlines the problems of school truancy, suspension, and expulsion and explores effective intervention programs in Colorado designed to keep at-risk youth in school.

Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, January 2001
This report reviews research on youth violence, including where, when, and how often it occurs; the causes of youth violence; and successful preventive measures.