ACT Now Truancy

Recognizing that today’s truant may be tomorrow’s criminal, and that chronic truancy is a predictor of future criminal behavior, Barbara LaWall is dedicated to returning truant students to school.

Working in partnership with the Center for Juvenile Alternatives, law enforcement, school administrators, teachers, parents and students, the Pima County Attorney’s Office innovative and unique truancy enforcement program intervenes at the very beginning of the truancy cycle. The ACT Now Truancy Program includes parent and student referrals to counseling and educational and parenting skills programs. The County Attorney cites and prosecutes parents as a last resort. This program has been studied and acclaimed by the Department of Justice as a national model for truancy enforcement programs.