Are Attendance Gains Sustained? A Follow-up on the Educational and Child Welfare Outcomes of Students with Child Welfare Involvement for Educational Neglect (ML #8)

Project Description

Minn-LInK Report Brief—Special Topic No. 8, Summer 2009
Authors: Anita Larson, MA, Timothy Zuel, PhD, & Mira Swanson, MSW

This study reexamines the school attendance and child welfare involvement of a group of students for whom a report of educational neglect was received by child welfare during the 2000-2001 school year in Minnesota. The majority of these students experienced a marked improvement in their school attendance in the year following their involvement with child welfare in 2002.

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