Attendance Works, in collaboration with the Healthy Readers Team of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading will host a webinar, Present and Engaged in the Early Grades: Improving Health to Increase School Attendance to discuss strategies for reducing absenteeism due to preventable health issues.
Jessica Tovar, Project Manager for the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma, will describe how LBACA works with schools and community partners to reduce school absenteeism and hospitalizations due to asthma. In addition, Nurse practitioner Jill Kerr will describe her research demonstrating that outreach by nurses to parents of chronically absent students in the early grades can significantly improve school attendance.
via December 13 Webinar: Improving Health to Increase School Attendance.