Vacancies in your Head Start program represent not just an empty seat, but a profound missed opportunity for both the child who is no longer attending and for the countless eligible children eagerly awaiting access to vital early education services. At HS University, we understand the emotional strain this situation can place on a program, as each child’s engagement in your program is crucial for their development and future success. HSU understands that you are deeply committed to working compassionately with families to help them reinstate attendance, ensuring that no child is left behind in their educational journey. By recognizing the urgency of these vacancies, your program can collaborate as a community to fill these slots, maximizing access to Head Start services and empowering every eligible child to thrive. This course will help your program turn these challenges into opportunities and reinforce your collective dedication to providing quality education for all children. This two-day event will focus on how programs can enhance the Head Start Program Performance Standards and maintain funded enrollment levels. This essential two-day course is designed to provide strategies that participants can use to address chronic absenteeism and boost regular attendance. Students will receive tools and best practices to help: Improve communication with families, Promote regular attendance by offering attendance success tools., Understand how community partnerships can support and promote regular attendance., Use tracker tools for attendance that examine barriers to regular attendance., Review and analyze individual child-attendance data to identify trends., Use health data to identify trends in children’s absences., Use a multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration between mental health and other relevant services., Identify program environments that may be promoting chronic absenteeism. Don’t miss this opportunity to bolster your attendance tracking and take a proactive step toward addressing chronic absenteeism!