Jerome Thompson

Please visit www.interventionacademy.com for school truancy and absenteeism training information.

Jerome Thompson has over twenty years of experience working with traunts, dropout-prone students, and their families for a Texas school district and more than ten years of experience working with families involved in Child Protective Services. This book covers his experience in both agencies and is broken down into two major areas:

1. The causes and effects of excessive absences and truant behavior

2. Setting up and structuring campus absenteeism and truancy plans.

Jerome is a retired attendance officer from a school district in Texas, has been a licensed social worker for over 20 years, has a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice, is a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, and is certified in family and truancy mediation. This book contains detailed information and best practices for preparing traditional, alternative, and charter schools to identify truant students promptly. The training guide will improve attendance rates, decrease student dropout, improve staff skills and increase the number of students graduating.

Jerome recognized the need for more structured training; therefore, he helped create certification training hours for current and new attendance officers, ensuring the skills and knowledge needed to do the job. He also developed training for attendance and data personnel, ensuring that students referred for truancy intervention were appropriate.

For your school district truancy and student absenteeism training needs, please get in touch with Jerome at jthompson@interventionacademy.com.

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