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Juvenile Court Probation Counselors |
Contact: Gary Ripley, (360) 397-2201 ext. 4059
The Clark County Community Truancy Project is a community-based program that provides intervention/prevention services to chronically truant students in the nine school districts in Clark County. The program involves a partnership between the Juvenile Court, Educational Service District #112, Clark County school districts, and the community.
Students in this program have been court ordered to attend school. Services focus on identifying and addressing the issues underlying truancy. Interventions involve an array of community resources, service learning, specially designed skills-building classes for both students and parents, mentoring, school-based services, and utilization of volunteers from the community who serve on Community Truancy Boards.
The link between truancy and delinquency is widely recognized. The Truancy Program enhances community safety by addressing the root causes of truancy through proven interventions and time honored community responses.
