Thursday, September 2, 2010

Child Welfare and Attendance
Phone: 985-8670
Director: Rick Miller

The Child Welfare and Attendance department is involved with student attendance, school transfers, suspensions, Safe School reports, Safe School plans, Calworks (students on state assistance), Threat Assessment, and discipline in general. This department is directly involved in supporting schools with all student issues.

All student transfers are initiated from this department. The "open enrollment" periods for "choice" transfers are:

Erica Rubalcava
Child Welfare and Attendance Office Coordinator
714/985-8670
Fax 714/528-2059

Child Welfare and Attendance is responsible for all expulsion cases that occur during the school year. The department assists the schools with the school/parent meetings, prepares all the documents necessary for the expulsion hearings, and participates in the hearings. The department is also part of the Threat Assessment team. This involves working with the schools to ascertain all incidents that occur at the school and with the students. The department handles numerous phone calls that range from custody issues to questions regarding the education code or penal code. Child Welfare and Attendance is a service-oriented department.