School Attendance Notification to Benefits of Non-Attendance

When it is determined, by the school or the SARB, that a child 16 through 17 years of age has been deemed a chronic truant and all methods of intervention have failed, the school district will notify the County.

The school district will send all of the following documents to the CalWORKs Social Work Unit:

• A letter on school district letterhead, requesting that the CalWORKs penalty be imposed, as appropriate.
• A copy of the school district’s letter which was sent to the child’s parent, notifying the parent that a request is being made to have the CalWORKs penalty imposed.
• A “CalWORKs Checklist”, showing the intervention methods used, prior to requesting the penalty

This request will be scanned/indexed and forwarded to the case-carrying EW by the CalWORKs designee. The penalty must be imposed as soon as an adequate and timely (10-day) notice can be given by the EW to the AU. The EW Supervisor will also be sent a copy of the request to ensure that timely action is taken.