How the TCAP Works with Schools
The success of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts Tackling Chronic Absenteeism (TCAP) depends on effective collaboration with participating schools. TCAP staff work closely with a TCAP School Team, which may include the principal, vice principal, attendance monitor, Individualized Education Program (IEP) coordinator, and/or the school’s homeless liaison, among others. The school’s contact person serves as the primary liaison with the TCAP, attends weekly TCAP activities and manages TCAP logistics throughout each session. The TCAP School Team stays in close contact with teachers of TCAP students, who provide weekly reports regarding students’ classroom experiences throughout the TCAP session. Teachers and the TCAP School Team offer positive reinforcement to students to reward improved attendance and academic performance.
TCAP sessions operate for 10 weeks for elementary students and 12–14 weeks for middle/high school students, with sessions in both Fall and Spring. The TCAP School Team selects 20–25 students to participate in each session. An early intervention model, the TCAP targets students with 5–30 unexcused absences and/or tardies in the two marking periods before the start of the TCAP, in the belief that these students still have academic, social and emotional connections to the school. The TCAP is also a preventive program, aiming to identify and address the root causes of truancy, and the program actively links children and their families with needed social services and other supports in an effort to keep children in school.
The TCAP operates in schools with the aim to improve and strengthen the students’ and their parents’/caregivers’ connection to the schools. A key goal is to build relationships that keep students and their parents/caregivers engaged and involved with their schools even after the TCAP session has ended.
Participating Schools and Districts
| 2023-2024 District: Baltimore City Carver Vocational Technology High School City Neighbors High School Collington Square Elementary/Middle School Lakeland Elementary/Middle School Maree G. Farring Elementary/Middle School Park Heights Academy Elemetary School |
2013–2014 Districts: Baltimore City, Montgomery County A. Mario Loiederman Middle School Argyle Middle School City Springs Elementary/Middle School Henderson Hopkins Elementary/Middle School Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School National Academy Foundation (NAF) Roberto Clemente Middle School Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School |
| 2022–2023 District: Baltimore City Carver Vocational Technology High School Digital Harbor High School Maree G. Farring Elementary/Middle School Park Heights Academy Elemetary School Walter P. Carter Elementary/MIddle School |
2012–2013 Districts: Baltimore City Collington Square Elementary/Middle School Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School National Academy Foundation (NAF) New Era Academy Patterson High School Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary School Violetville Elementary/Middle School Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School |
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2021–2022 |
2011 – 2012 Districts: Baltimore City, Baltimore County Collington Square Elementary School Francis Scott Key Middle School Golden Ring Middle School Hampden Elementary School New Era Academy Violetville Elementary/Middle School |
| 2020–2021 District: Baltimore City Academy of College & Career Exploration (ACCE) Baltimore Design School Franklin Square Elementary/Middle School Furley Elementary School Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School The Belair-Edison MIddle School |
2010–2011 Districts: Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Montgomery County Barclay Elementary/Middle School Brooklyn Park Middle School City Springs Elementary/Middle School Francis Scott Key Middle School Golden Ring Middle School Hampden Elementary School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School Meade Middle School Neelsville Middle School Patterson High School Southwest Academy Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School Violetville Elementary/Middle School |
| 2019–2020 District: Baltimore City Academy of College & Career Exploration (ACCE) Baltimore Design School Furley Elementary School Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy |
2009–2010 Districts: Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Montgomery County Barclay Elementary/Middle School Brooklyn Park Middle School City Springs Elementary/Middle School Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School Frederick Douglass High School Harlem Park Elementary/Middle School Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Meade Middle School Neelsville Middle School Patterson High School Steuart Hill Academic Academy Winston Middle School |
| 2018–2019 District: Baltimore City Baltimore Design School Frederick Douglas High School Furley Elementary School Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School REACH! Partnership School |
2008–2009 District: Baltimore City Barclay Elementary/Middle School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Patterson High School Steuart Hill Academic Academy Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School William Lemmel Middle School |
| 2017–2018 District: Baltimore City Furley Elementary School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School REACH! Partnership School Reginald F. Lewis School of Business and Law |
2007–2008 District: Baltimore City Barclay Elementary/Middle School Calverton Elementary/Middle School Canton Middle School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Patterson High School Waverly Elementary School William Lemmel Middle School |
| 2016–2017 District: Baltimore City Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School National Academy Foundation (NAF) Reginald F. Lewis School of Business and Law |
2006–2007 District: Baltimore City Barclay Elementary/Middle School Guilford Elementary/Middle School Holabird Elementary School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Pimlico Middle School |
| 2015–2016 Districts: Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School New Era Academy North County High School Reginald F. Lewis School of Business and Law |
2005-2006 District: Baltimore City Canton Middle School Elmer A. Henderson Elementary School Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School Holabird Elementary School Southeast Middle School |
| 2014–2015 District: Baltimore City Green Street Academy James McHenry Elementary/Middle School Reginald F. Lewis School of Business and Law Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School |