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Board weighs one-year Family Service Collaborative funding to add contracted family-support role
Summary
The board discussed a proposal to use roughly $60,000 of one-year Family Service Collaborative funds, partnered with attendance-pilot dollars, to contract a family-support specialist to work ~30 hours in Chisholm and ~10 hours in Hibbing to target absenteeism and caregiver supports.
Superintendent described a potential one-year partnership with Hibbing Public Schools and the Family Service Collaborative to use about $60,000 of reallocated funding to create a contracted family-support position aimed at combating absenteeism and supporting caregivers.
Under the plan, the position would be contracted (not a district hire) and would spend about 30 hours per week serving families in Chisholm and about 10 hours serving families in Hibbing. The role would not provide direct student-level services but would meet with caregivers to build protective factors against adverse childhood experiences, Superintendent said. The district would pair the funds with leftover attendance-pilot money to finance the position for one year.
The board discussed two possible paths to extend the position beyond the one-year funding window: demonstrating a 20% reduction in absenteeism (language noted in the legislative session) to unlock ongoing funds, or pursuing a community-schools grant. Several board members expressed support for trying the one-year contracted approach as a test of impact.
The superintendent emphasized that the funding would cost the district nothing beyond the matched attendance-pilot monies for the pilot year and that success metrics (attendance reduction targets) would determine longer-term funding.
