Let's Talk Truancy: Truancy Networking Call

Join us bimonthly to meet with others doing similar work in truancy - get up-to-date on important information, exchange ideas, ask questions, gain confidence, and make connections.

August 8th: Kick-off
October 10th: Guest Presenter: Brian Schwartz, IPA discussing truancy laws & homeschooling
December 12th: Breakout Rooms, ALOP/Truancy
February 13th: Guest Presenter: Dr. Patricia Graczyk, Multi-Dimensional (MD)-MTSS framework
April 10th: Data Collection/Going Digital, Case Management, Referral Process

About Dr. Graczyk:
Patricia Graczyk, PhD is a licensed school psychologist and clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her main areas of interest include promoting school attendance and addressing school attendance problems, school-based mental health services, social and emotional learning, and supporting schools in implementing a MTSS framework. She is a co-developer of an MTSS framework to Promote School Attendance and Address School Attendance Problems that is being implemented by many schools across Illinois, the US, and internationally.

Dr. Graczyk has numerous publications on this topic, is invited to present at state, national, and international conferences, and currently works with colleagues in the US as well as in 8 other countries (i.e., Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada, Norway, Germany, Ireland, and Sweden). She is an experienced educator who has worked in Illinois schools, preschool through high school, undergraduate and graduate levels, for over 35 years and is very excited to be supporting your schools in your work to improve school attendance.