Truancy Prevention

Passage of Youth is dedicated to motivate adolescents and teens to enhance their school attendance. Passage of Youth provides interventions and programs designed to improve school attendance, achievements, and relationships meant to last a lifetime. Passage of Youth (POY) exists to bring hope and inspire youth to succeed personally and academically. We do this by targeting two core developmental needs facing our youth - Academic and Life Skills Development and Leadership and Employment Skills

Passage of Youth is committed to building lives and maximizing potential through empowering, effective training and mentoring. Our program is purposed to reduce truancy and involvement in with the juvenile court system. We will address the social and cultural needs of these populations and maintain their efforts in a collaborative process involving students, families, and staff. It is our goal to work with youth and their families to reduce or eliminate the risk factors and establish a stable healthy home environment.

Courses Offered

  • Gang Prevention (Course I)

  • Decision Making and Life Readiness

  • Building Bonds (Course III)

  • Crime Intervention (Course IV)

  • Anger Management (Course V)

  • Loving Myself and Peer Pressure (Course VI)

We Offer

  • Family, Group, and Individual therapy

  • YouthMentoring

  • Community Outreach

  • Parent Education and Support

  • Academic Enrichment and Intervention

1st and 3rd Saturdays - 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
2nd and 4th Thursdays - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Program Fee: $35.00 dollars (Includes registration and materials)

Family

These include lack of guidance or parental supervision, drug or alcohol abuse, lack of awareness of attendance laws, and differing views about education.

The Urban Challenge: Why Truancy Exists

School

These include factors such as school environment (school size, teachers, students, and administrators), inability to engage the diverse cultural and learning styles of minority students, inconsistent attendance policies, and lack of meaningful consequences.

Economics

These include employed students, single-parent homes, a lack of affordable transportation and child care, high mobility rates, and parents with multiple jobs.

Student

Factors include drug and alcohol abuse, misunderstanding or ignorance of attendance laws, physical and emotional ill health, lack of incentive, lack of school engaged friends, and lack of proficiency in English.