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title: "YMHC ASAP Model | School Attendance Challenges"
description: "Awareness of school triggers and stressors, stress responses, warning signs and symptoms, changes in mood, behavior, diet, sleep, and class participation."
url: https://ymhc.ngo/resources/school-attendance-challenges/guide/ymhc-asap-model/
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# YMHC ASAP Model

![Wooden blocks arranged as rising steps labelled Awareness, Support, Action, and Prevention, under a speech bubble reading ASAP, with a hand placing the top block beside a light bulb](https://ymhc.ngo/_astro/asap-model.BepyJ3Lh_Z1KtsYb.webp)

## What is the YMHC ASAP model for School Attendance Challenges?

### A = Awareness

Awareness of school triggers and stressors, stress responses, warning signs and symptoms, changes in mood, behavior, diet, sleep, and class participation, and sensory, social, and demand overwhelm, overload, and shutdown.

### S = Support

School-wide support team with coordinated responses to prevention, early intervention, and individualized, accessible, and inclusive educational approaches and models.

### A = Action

Action to support students using a tiered, school-wide framework with assessment, education support team active involvement, action, support, access, and communication plans.

### P = Prevention

Proactive, practical, and preventative educational access, support, accommodations, and models for inclusive, individualized, and accessible learning opportunities.