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Using multiple data sources from 2023 to 2025 across five counties, it identifies interrelated barriers involving children’s health, family dynamics, economic stress, transportation, and work schedules. 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Children under age 12 with seven or more unexcused school absences in a single school year should be referred to child protection services.  \nRecognizing that punitive approaches may fail to address challenges experienced by families that are not necessarily due to safety concerns, several Minnesota counties have implemented familycentered supportive strategies. These strategies aim to proactively address school attendance concerns through prevention and early intervention and service coordination between counties and schools , and avoid unnecessary engagement with child protection.  \nWith support from the Sauer Family Foundation and Casey Family Programs, Wilder Research evaluated five counties' support programs—Anoka, Olmsted, Scott, Washington, and Wright—to understand how these programs operate, to inform more equitable and effective practices, and the impact of these programson families. Between 2023 and 2025 , the evaluation used multiple methods and sources to gather information—a literature review, an online Service Tracking Form completed by program staff about families served, an online survey and follow-up interviews with families, school staff interviews, and collaborative cointerpretation sessions or data walks—one with families and the other with county program staff.  \nThe goals were to understand who is being served, the barriers to school attendance, the services families received from the support programs, and the perceived and experienced outcomes of the programs. The findings were intended to inform service coordination and policy decision-making across school districts.  \nThe evaluation results show that families involved in these support programs often face interrelated challenges that contribute to school attendance issues. These challenges, combined with varied school experiences and program service deliveries, shape how families engage with support efforts and the outcomes they experience. Key findings include:  \nFamilies face complex challenges related to their children’s school attendance. Attendance challenges are often influenced by parents’ and children’s mental and physical health, parenting and co-parenting dynamics, financial and economic challenges, transportation issues, and work schedule conflicts. Most families face multiple types of challenges simultaneously. Negative experiences with schools—such as bullying and peer abuse, inflexible attendance policies, unsupportive school cultures, and ineffective communication with school staff—further compound the challenges some families face.  \nSupport programs provide diverse services, resources, and supports for families. Schools and counties provide a range of services such as a combination of communication approaches, incentives and rewards for attendance, mental health support, transportation assistance, basic needs support, and special education accommodations. School-county collaboration is essential but capacity issues and inconsistent communication sometimes limit effectiveness.  \nFamilies have varied experiences with and services and programs. While many families report satisfaction with services, those facing more complex challenges are less likely to feel supported or to have received all the help they needed. Disparities are observed across cultural groups—non-Black families of color, including Asian American, Hispanic or Latino/a, American Indian, African immigrant, and multiracial families who do not identify as Black or African American, are the least likely to report that services are culturally appropriate or sufficient.  \nSupport programs have influenced multiple family outcomes. 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