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Source: Victorian Department of Education and Training

The Centre developed this for the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DE&T), with contributions from the Youth Substance Abuse Service (YSAS), the Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH), and the Centre for Youth Drug Studies (CYDS). It provides Student Welfare Coordinators with a set of evidence-based guidelines to assist schools and their communities to address issues relating to truancy and the associated risk of problematic substance use.

Thr manual provides a summary of the research evidence that can usefully inform the school's prevention, early identification, intervention and referral strategies. It gives an overview of the prevalence of these issus and of the risk and protective actors associated with truancy and problematic substance use. It also provides a set of guidelines and tools to assist student welfare coordinators in the design and use of strategies to assist in the early identification and management of students at risk of truancy and drug-related harm. This manual is to be publisehed by DE&T in 2006.

The project was carried out by Helen Cahill and Bern Murphy in collaboration with Helen Butler from the CAH.

Contact: Helen Cahill

Contact: h.cahill@unimelb.edu.au