Internet Sites:

• Manual to Combat Truancy (July 1996)
This manual was prepared by the U.S. Department of Education in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Truancy/

• Truancy – First Step to a Lifetime of Problems (October 1996)
This Bulletin is one of a series of OJJDP Bulletins focusing on strategies in the Youth Out of the Education Mainstream (YOEM) initiative. YOEM is a joint effort of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, U.S. Department of Education. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/truncy.pdf

• Truancy Prevention Resources
A list of organizations around the country with truancy prevention and intervention program (includes contact information).
http://www.ael.org/cac/referral/truancy.htm

• Reducing Crime and Supporting Education Through a Comprehensive Truancy Reduction Strategy
Investigates truancy in Memphis and suggests a comprehensive “best practices” approach to solving it.
http://www.memphiscrime.org/research/bestpractices/bestpractices-8.html

• ERIC Digest: Student Truancy (1999)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed429334.html

• ERIC Digest: Urban Policies and Programs To Reduce Truancy (1997)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed415306.html