Student Supports

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• Promising Practices to Reduce Chronic Absence

• Reducing Chronic Absence in Connecticut's Schools

  School district administrators can use this framework to plan and implement preventions and interventions that will help reduce chronic absence in prekindergarten through Grade 12.

• Resources for Addressing Trauma, Violence, and Grief

• Results-Based Accountability

• Safe and Supportive Environments (Health Education)

  Guidance and resources for creating safe and supportive learning environments in schools.

• School Governance Councils

  School Governance Councils provide an opportunity for Connecticut schools to engage with families and community members in the essential dialogue about student achievement and preparing all students for success.

• School Social Work

  Guidance and resources for Connecticut’s school social workers.

• School-Family-Community Partnerships

  When schools, families and the community work together, children benefit. School staff, families and community members each make important contributions to student development and success, and the best results come when all three work together as equal partners.

• Sexual Health Education Component of Comprehensive Health Education

  Sexual health education is one vital component of a planned, ongoing and systematic health education program

• Standards for Educational Opportunities for Students Who Have Been Expelled

  Connecticut law requires LEAs to offer an “alternative educational opportunity” to students who have been expelled in certain circumstances and further provides that LEAs may offer such an opportunity to any expelled student.

• Truancy

  Chronic absence and truancy are not interchangeable terms. They describe different aspects of the absence problem and require different approaches. Truancy is a term that generally refers to unexcused absences. Chronic absence, on the other hand, incorporates all absences: excused, unexcused absences, and suspensions and expulsions served.

• Young Parents Program

  A Young Parents Program (YPP) provides day care services for the infants/toddlers of students who are enrolled in and attending a comprehensive high school program leading to graduation from high school.

• Youth Service Bureaus

  Local communities began to develop youth service bureaus in the 1960's as a response to a growing number of issues affecting youth. The role of Youth Service Bureaus (YSBs) has been broadened to include both advocacy and coordination of a comprehensive service delivery system for youth.