Collective Impact: Assembling a broad-based set of stakeholders
While schools play a critical role in curbing absenteeism, they can not resolve problems that are essentially home or community-based. The RI DataHUB lacks data on the full range of issues external to school --for example, problems with transportation.
But it does reveal certain commonalities among chronically-absent children that helped to identify potential stakeholders.
Student absenteeism per se is not in the mission statements of any of the agencies or leaders whose help we solicited. But all of our community stakeholders have agreed to raise student absenteeism to a priority commitment, thereby establishing a Common Agenda.
We expect that the Mutually-reinforcing Activities will have a significant, Collective Impact.
