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County and schools to pilot DSS-funded family support positions to address chronic absenteeism
Summary
Superintendent Chris Barnes and county staff described a three-year pilot embedding Department of Social Services employees in five schools to target chronic absenteeism and related behavioral supports, along with expansion of schoolwide behavior programs and the "2 by 10" positive-contact strategy.
Superintendent Chris Barnes described a cooperative pilot proposal with the county Department of Social Services (DSS) to place five DSS employees in New Hanover County Schools over three years. The pilot would place three employees in elementary schools, one in a middle school and one in a high school to focus on chronically absent students and related family supports.
Barnes said the positions would be county DSS employees embedded in school sites to provide dedicated support for attendance barriers that the…
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