2025 Monthly Workshop: School-Wide Strategies for Supporting Students with School Absenteeism Issues

2025 Monthly Workshop: School-Wide Strategies for Supporting Students with School Absenteeism Issues

Join YMHC for an interactive online workshop focused on addressing chronic school absenteeism through evidence-based school-wide strategies. Led by an experienced educator and mental health expert with 20+ years specializing in school attendance issues, this session will equip education and mental health professionals with practical tools and approaches for supporting students struggling with attendance.

Participants receive two valuable photocopiable resources: a comprehensive guidebook on supporting students with school phobia and a student workbook on school experiences. Both resources incorporate upstream prevention approaches and the multi-tiered system of support. 

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”― Desmond Tutu

The Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework is a three-tiered safety net, ensuring that every student’s needs are met. Starting with foundational, universal supports and scaling up to early intervention and highly personalized interventions, MTSS empowers educators to respond proactively and equitably.

Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 Time: 7:00-9:00 PM ET + discussion period Cost: $500 (includes $300 value in resources.) Transaction fee applies.

Register to learn:

• Assessment and identification strategies

• Whole-school support approaches

• Practical intervention techniques

• Educational accommodation options

• Evidence-based mental wellness strategies

Space is limited. 

This workshop draws from YMHC's extensive research, including Canada's first national survey on school phobia with insights from 520+ families, and our trainer’s experience coordinating Stay-in-School programs, contributions to provincial and national change in education to support students with mental health disabilities, participation in international organizations focused on chronic school absenteeism and  school attendance and engagement, development of resources to support students, families, and schools, and advocacy for alternative schooling models that support student mental well-being and suicide prevention.