QUINCY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHOLE CHILD L TRUANCY Grant

QUINCY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHOLE CHILD L

TRUANCY Grant County Juvenile Community Truancy Board Building Level Interventions

TRUANCY 2018 -2019 as of June 1 Unexcused Absences Excused Absences

School Excused Sept. May Unexcused Sept. -May Petition filed CTB Initial CTB Review CTB Dismissal Stay (improved) Removed (sent on to court) QHS 8063 6248 54 43 30 1 9 QIA 344 328 13 7 12 0 6 QJHS 2266 928 4 5 8 0 0 Monument 6361 8312 11 12 3 1 3 Pioneer 4688 351 1 0 0 0 1 Mtn. View 4542 269 2 2 0 0 0 George 2086 5 0 0 0 QSD 28, 350 16, 441 85 69 53 2 19

201620172018 7 cases 28 from Feb. cases -May 2018 -2019 70 new students and 53 of those met with up to 4 times for support COMMUNITY TRUANCY BOARD

NEXT STEPS FOR TRUANCY Ensure consistency in reasons and reporting in Skyward. Develop Parent/community flow chart for elementary and secondary to go on websites and in handbooks. Disseminate preventive information out to the public/and develop a community campaign for absences. Make the truancy board separate from the schools. Refine roles for Community truancy board and purpose for meetings. Add more community membership. Enhance collaboration between building administrators, truancy clerk, whole child director, and improve communication

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING: 2019 -2020 PLAN Second Step and Kelso's Choice in K-5. *Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that is broke down into 3 areas: Bullying Prevention, Social Emotional, and Child protective. Kelso's choice is a conflict management program. Quincy Middle School will be using Character Strong: 35 lessons per grade at the middle school level (6 -8). Vertically aligned for potential district-wide use. Designed to be a flexible 30 minute lesson plan. A strong focus on character development and social-emotional skills with videos, activities, and more built in to an easy-to-use platform. This content is the most effective way to teach the Whole Child and transform your school culture & climate by promoting positive interactions and relationship skills. Quincy High School Advisory Plan: Incorporate monthly class meeting/classroom circles into advisory classes focused on climate survey items like bullying, peer relationships, engagement, belonging and collaboration, and school culture.

SOURCES OF STRENGTH High School 5 Adult Advisors 27 Peer Leaders • Family Festival Garden of Strengths • Thankfulness Campaign Junior High School 5 Adult Advisors 32 Peer Leaders • Spirit Week Dance Quincy Innovation Academy 3 Community Members trained 4 support staff trained Big THANKS to QSD, Quincy Partnership for Youth, New Hope 1 Adult Advisors 2 Peer Leaders • Spirit week

MCKINNEY-VENTO "individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. " The act provides examples of children who would fall under this definition: Children and youth sharing housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship or a similar reason.

Withdrawals • 14 8 15/16 15 students (11 families) Reasons: 10 due to housing, 2 student refusal, 1 out of public education, 2 unknown 16/17 17/18 18/19 l 0 0 ta 0 2 2 0 ed 0 To 8 6 5 ni 10 pa 9 students involved in Truancy 20 cc om • 24 na Average: 21 days 30 U • 40 re d Total Days Missed 50 lte Average: 1. 744 60 ns he • 70 U GPA (32 students) 75 el 46% of families speak SPANISH as primary language 71 93 79 ot • 80 83 el /m 39 Families • 86 H ot 14 Unaccompanied youth 90 94 up • 100 bl ed 83 Students • Mc. Kinney-Vento 4 year OVERVIEW D ou 2018 -2019 MV INTAKES 83

CELEBRATIONS BARRIERS Graduated 6 out if the 8 seniors 5 of the seniors are Unaccompanied Mc. Kinney-Vento is a law with no direct funding Expanded Training to Food Services, Maintenance and Support Services Limited resources in Quincy/ resources that are stretched thin; housing Hired a second Social Worker who is bilingual Undocumented youth and family stress More frequent contact with families Improved services to unaccompanied homeless youth

NEXT STEPS Continue to improve supportive services to Unaccompanied homeless youth Work to improve success rates of students in the MV program Goal: increase average GPA and attendance rates Improve training to increase identification Goal 100% graduation rate Goal: all departments and schools trained each year Develop home visit protocol to increase safety and identify purpose

WHOLE CHILD SUCCESSES AND NEXT STEPS Successes § Advanced the Health and Wellness Center work § Improved support to the Whole Child; added nursing, social worker, counselors with mental health backgrounds, refined truancy § § § Identified Social Emotional Learning programs at HS, MS and Elementary Continued to refine Truancy Board and attendance systems Added Sources of Strength Program Next Steps Explore Early Learning Opportunities and implement board recommendation in 2020 -21 Continue to align truancy work across the system Deepen implementation of Sources of Strength Refine Social Worker Roles (now with 2) and communication with schools. Implementing Middle School BP program Continue to develop QIA, including Big Picture learning

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