A promotional image for the Handbook on School Attendance Challenges showing the book cover and links for digital and photocopiable pre-orders.
Handbook on school attendance challenges: Addressing barriers to education with tiered school-wide strategies.
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A digital mockup of a book titled Handbook on School Attendance Challenges with a tree graphic on the cover, accompanied by pre-order links.
Handbook on school attendance challenges: addressing barriers to education with tiered school-wide strategies. ymhc.ngo/SACHandbookD
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An illustration of a clipboard with a list of physical and emotional symptoms associated with school anxiety, such as lightheadedness, tummy troubles, and feeling alone.
What school anxiety might feel like.
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Waves of change in school attendance challenges. ymhc.ngo/2026
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Waves of change in school attendance challenges. ymhc.ngo/2026
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A close-up, serious portrait of a young boy looking through a metal grid fence with text overlaying the bottom regarding school avoidance and feeling like a prisoner at home.
Make sure the walls you build to protect yourself and feel safe from school do not make you a prisoner of your home.
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A quote by Dr. Ross Greene that reads "Kids go to school if they can" centered on a piece of torn grey paper against a light blue background.
Kids go to school if they can.
By Dr. Ross Greene
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A digital graphic titled "School Attendance Challenges" with a sidebar menu listing topics like the ASAP model, student lived experience, and resources.
School attendance challenges: addressing barriers to education with tiered school-wide strategies.
sac.ymhc.ngo
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A grid of colorful boxes containing various terms for school attendance issues, including school refusal, school phobia, school-induced anxiety, and chronic absenteeism.
Language to describe school attendance challenges.
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An educational infographic detailing emotional, physical, cognitive, and social warning signs of school attendance challenges, such as anxiety, stomachaches, difficulty concentrating, and social isolation.
Warning signs: How to recognize attendance challenges.
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Waves of change in school attendance challenges. ymhc.ngo/2026
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An image of an empty classroom with wooden desks and orange chairs. Above the photo is a text box outlining strategies for school anxiety, titled "Presence & Absence at School Matter."
Presence & absence at school matter.
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A promotional graphic for the 2026 National Virtual Conference on school attendance challenges, featuring a wave illustration and classroom imagery.
2026 National Virtual Conference: Waves of change in school attendance challenges. Learn more and sign up at ymhc.ngo/2026
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A promotional flyer for the 2026 National Virtual Conference titled "Waves of Change in School Attendance Challenges" happening May 29-30, 2026.
2026 National Virtual Conference. Waves of Change in School Attendance Challenges: Addressing Barriers to Education with Multi-Tiered School-Wide Strategies. May 29-30, 2026.
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A graphic with the title Teaching a Student with School Anxiety. The text reads: Your support could make a difference. Try to understand your student's experience of school. Try to understand the challenges your student faces and explore ways to support them. The background features a serene landscape with tall grass and a body of water.
Teaching a student with school anxiety. Your support could make a difference.
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A photo of an empty wooden school desk and chair with the text "Every absence from school tells a story" and information about the 2026 National Virtual Conference.
Every absence from school tells a story. 2026 National Virtual Conference, May 29-30, 2026.
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An event graphic for the 2026 YMHC National Virtual Conference about school attendance challenges featuring an illustration of a large wave and a classroom photo.
2026 National Virtual Conference. Waves of Change in School Attendance Challenges: Addressing Barriers to Education with Multi-Tiered School-Wide Strategies. May 29-30, 2026.
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A promotional graphic for a school guidebook titled "Supporting Students with School Phobia" featuring a discount code and the YMHC website.
School Special: Order 20 Guidebooks and Save $200. Get 20+ copies of Supporting Students with School Phobia: A Guidebook for Families and Schools and save $200 — use code guidebook20 at checkout. Offer ends February 28, 2026. ymhc.me/schoolphobia
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A circular flow chart depicting barriers to education including unmet educational needs, negative thoughts about school, increased anxiety, and school avoidance.
Barriers to education and learning.
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"My daughter initially complained of headaches before school. No one indicated anxiety was a possible cause, and it was only a random internet search that tuned me in to the topic of school anxiety and phobia. That allowed me to speak more openly with our daughter regarding her feelings about school."
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School Attendance Challenges: Experiences of grief, loss, and separation Lack of support for inability to learn Decrease in motivation Inability to function, concentrate, and manage education Increased anxiety Emotional distress leading to avoidance of situation causing distress (school) Distancing from source of stress Experiences temporary relief Increased comfort at home School absence Loss of friends and increased isolation
School Attendance Challenges: Experiences of grief, loss, and separation
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"Every day would start with me trying to get conditions perfect so I could get my son to school. I felt like I was walking on eggshells while holding a hand grenade, without having slept for a week. If I could manage to get him — one, out of bed; two, clothes on; three, fed and into the car — I would often end up with a screaming child in the school car park." "Every day felt like I had fought a massive battle before 9am, and my nervous system was absolutely wrecked."
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School Attendance Challenges Website https://sac.ymhc.ngo/ Canada's first survey on school attendance challenges and barriers to education and learning Survey findings from 519 families Over 400 stories from families with elementary and secondary students who experience challenges in accessing and managing school A report on the findings with information on language and research over the last hundred years
School Attendance Challenges Website
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Red Flags for School Attendance Challenges 🚩 Emotional distress 🚩 Physical symptoms: headache, stomachache, dizziness 🚩 Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea 🚩 Negativity towards school, subjects or teachers 🚩 Shaking, trembling: panic/anxiety attacks 🚩 Sleeping difficulties
Red Flags for School Attendance Challenges
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School attendance challenges don't just affect the student who can't attend school. They affect the entire family.
School attendance challenges don't just affect the student who can't attend school. They affect the entire family.
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School attendance challenges What you see: Feeling sick Withdrawing or isolating Getting emotionally dysregulated in school Having difficulty staying in the classroom Having difficulty concentrating or focusing Lateness or absence What you might not see: Executive function challenges Boredom: school doesn't feel relevant to student's life Sensory overload Social anxiety difficulties Feeling lonely Learning difficulties Grief and loss Family stressors School stressors
School attendance challenges
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Handle With Care If your child is struggling with getting to school, I would like to provide additional support at school. If there is any way that I can make changes in the classroom to help your child adjust to being here, please let me know. If your child is coming to school after a hard night or morning with big thoughts and feelings about school, please text me, “Handle with Care”. That message will help me prepare the classroom with extra help, patience, compassion, time, and support during the day.
Handle With Care
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Every empty chair tells a story.
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School Attendance Challenges Sleeping Waking up Leaving the house Entering school Staying in school
School Attendance Challenges
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Warning Signs of School Attendance Issues 🔸 Saying they can’t or don’t want to attend 🔸 Arriving to school late 🔸 Learning difficulties 🔸 Being isolated 🔸 Having stomachaches or headaches 🔸 Health issues 🔸 Negative about school, subjects, or teacher 🔸 Missing classes 🔸 Family issues 🔸 Disengagement from school 🔸 A noticeable drop in grades, effort 🔸 Fear of school 🔸 Withdrawn, sad, quiet 🔸 Changes in behavior 🔸 Lack of support 🔸 Being angry or upset, or acting out 🔸 Being the victim of bullying or harassment 🔸 Absence of protective factors 🔸 Not completing homework or classwork 🔸 Feeling bored, disengaged, not stimulated 🔸 Difficulty concentrating https://ymhc.me/schoolphobia
Warning Signs of School Attendance Issues
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