PDP Certificate

This Certificate is Presented to

Passent Attia

This certificate awards 10 Professional Development Points for the successful completion of an end-of-course assessment following participation in the approved Safe and Supportive Learning Environments continuing education professional development activity listed below, sponsored by Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc.

September 30, 2025 (5 hours) and October 21, 2025 (5 hours)

Conference – Annual School Attendance Summit: All Present and Ready to Learn

Conference – School Attendance: Supporting Students with Mental Health Concerns

Explore how positive and culturally responsive family engagement improves student attendance and identify key strategies to strengthen family partnerships. Apply tiered intervention strategies tailored to staff responsibilities and student/family needs. Examine how to build and align attendance systems within an MTSS framework to ensure proactive, relationship-centered, and school-wide support for student attendance.

Participants will learn how avoidance coping is reinforced in the school setting, making students more vulnerable to school refusal behavior. Participants will learn concrete strategies in the classroom that can help promote active self-regulation. Participants will learn how to utilize school counselors and other behavioral experts to help develop these practices within a school setting.