Community Resources

Chronic Absence is problem that our community can solve with the help of businesses and non-profits in Hall County. This issue is important because:

• The workforce challenge: Absenteeism contributes to high school dropout rates, leaving students without the academic credentials and skills needed to compete in a 21st century workforce.
• The soft skills challenge: Regular attendance is the precursor to the “soft skills” businesses will continue to expect and require. Students who don’t develop the habits associated with good attendance in the early years will find it difficult to develop them as adults.
• The productivity challenge: Children who are sick miss school. And their parents miss work.
• The social challenge: Chronic absence can stall efforts to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty or to boos the local economy.

Check out this infographic for more information.

Source: https://www.attendanceworks.org/