Training courses

Target audience

The course series is tailored for individuals in various professional roles, including teachers, educators, managers, social workers, PPR psychologists, and others engaged with children and youth demonstrating early signs of school absenteeism.

Enroll in one or multiple courses offered in Drive’s comprehensive series addressing concerning school absenteeism and school refusal. The structure of the series allows flexibility, enabling you to participate in a standalone course or progressively enhance your expertise by taking two or all three courses in the series.

Course Overview and Content

When school absence starts to emerge

This course focuses on how to work preventively with concerning school absence. The course presents an understanding of what involuntary school absence is and how it can be defined as a state that is not anyone’s fault. The course provides:

• Concrete methods and tools that can be used when you notice a child who is struggling and starting to withdraw at school. These methods can involve both the individual child or the whole class.
• Knowledge of how attendance records in schools can be used as an analytical tool to assess whether the absence is concerning.
• Knowledge on how to identify patterns in the absence and when it is necessary to respond, either as an individual teacher or collectively, possibly involving others outside the classroom.
• A solution model for how schools, municipalities, and after-school programs can work together on cases where children begin to show early signs of distress through absence from school.

When children don’t come to school

This course focuses on possible explanations for the child’s absence and includes an understanding of the child’s resistance and motivation. The course provides:

• Concrete conversation techniques for when, for example, you need to visit a child with involuntary school absence.
• Knowledge of how to work with resistance and motivation in the individual child, and how to collaborate with the parents on this effort.
• Knowledge of how to address the root cause of the child’s absence, including how the child can be involved in understanding the underlying reasons for their absence.
• Methods for how school attendance records can be used as an analytical tool to determine whether the absence is concerning, and how schools, municipalities, and after-school programs can collaborate on cases where children begin to show signs of distress through school absence.

When absence becomes long-term

This course delves into how to understand the root causes of school absence, the systems that affect the child and the family, and how professionals can provide comprehensive support. The course provides:

• Insights into which factors can be seen as triggering, maintaining, and protective regarding involuntary school absence.
• Knowledge of the impact long-term school absence has on the child’s family, and how to work with the child’s entire system.
• An understanding of what anxiety is, and knowledge about the anxiety issues that may arise in school absence cases.
• Concrete tools for parental collaboration and knowledge of how to maintain effective parent collaboration, including theories on professional responsibility in parent partnerships and mentalizing conversation techniques.

Practical information

Price

One course: 1000 DKK; all three courses: 2500 DKK.
The course series is structured so that you can either attend a single course or participate in all three.

Registration

Email to info@fondendrive.dk. Payment via MobilePay or invoice.

Where

Billund: Drive School of Motivation, Kløvermarken 33, 7190 Billund
Copenhagen: Fonden Drive, Martinsvej 7.9, 1923 Frederiksberg

When

• When school absence starts to emerge
  Billund: 4th December 2024 – 08:30-12:00
  Copenhagen: 28th January 2025 – 08:30-12:00
• When children don’t come to school
  Billund: 29th April 2025 – 08:30-12:00
  Copenhagen: 8th April 2025 – 08:30-12:00
• When school absence becomes long-term
  Billund: 10th June 2025 – 08:30-12:00
  Copenhagen: 3rd June 2025 – 08:30-12:00