Professional development for school teams
Equip educators with expert-led training, practical implementation tools and family-informed guidance to understand barriers to attendance and plan a coordinated response.
Choose an annual license for one school or your entire district, with unlimited staff access within your selected scope.
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Self-paced educator training · Practical school–home tools · Certificates of completion
The family-informed difference
An attendance record shows when a student is absent. Conversations with families help your team understand the barriers, what has already been tried and where support is needed.
School Avoidance Alliance brings family perspectives together with guidance from clinicians, researchers and school professionals. Your team learns how to ask better questions, strengthen school–home communication and develop a more informed response.
Expert-led training.
Build staff knowledge with specialists in school avoidance and related fields.
Family-informed guidance.
Learn from families' experiences of what has helped, what has not and what they need schools to understand.
Practical implementation.
Put learning into use with downloadable tools, communication templates and a shared approach across staff roles.
Family-informed guidance is part of every plan. District plans also include a parent portal for district families.
Annual plans
One annual license covers unlimited staff within the school or district you select. Start with a single building, extend training across your district or add scheduled live support.
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Curriculum and resources
Bring teachers, student support teams and school leaders into the same conversation with self-paced professional development and practical resources.
Explore school avoidance, common misconceptions and the different factors that can contribute to a student's difficulty attending.
Learn how family perspectives can inform your response and use communication tools to support constructive conversations.
Explore reintegration planning and how educators, support staff and families can work together around the student's needs.
Learn about specialist approaches discussed in the course and how school professionals can contribute within their roles.
Give multidisciplinary teams access to the same learning and resources, with completion reporting for your designated contact.
Staff can work through the course at their own pace and receive a certificate of completion when they finish.
Who it is for
Faculty
Explore perspectives from clinicians, researchers and school professionals with expertise relevant to school avoidance. The course brings their teaching together in one self-paced learning experience.
Founder, Director – Center for Anxiety & Behavioral Change
Dr. Dalton is one of our country's leading psychologists treating kids with school avoidance and anxiety disorders. He is a fierce advocate, educating others that evidence-based treatments, such as CBT, are vital to helping kids with school avoidance and severe anxiety disorders.
He is a licensed psychologist, founder, and director of the Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change (CABC) in Rockville, Maryland. He specializes in treating anxiety disorders in children and teens, focusing on anxiety-based school refusal.
He completed two years of pre-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – Kennedy Krieger Institute and advanced postdoctoral training at the Maryland Center for Anxiety Disorders at the University of Maryland.
Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry; Co-author of the SRAS-R
Dr. Albano is a Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry and board-certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology. She is the founder and director of a leading clinic for anxiety and related disorders in New York City.
Dr. Albano has co-authored over 200 articles and chapters, conducts clinical research, supervises the research and clinical development of interns and postdoctoral fellows in psychology and psychiatry, and is involved in the advanced training of senior clinicians in CBT. One of her most well-known works is co-authoring "Children and You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life" with Leslie Pepper.
She has been awarded the "Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Clinical Activities" distinction by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Associate Professor of Medical Psychology; Director, Anxiety Day Program
Anthony Puliafico, Ph.D. is an associate professor of medical psychology in child and adolescent psychiatry. He serves as director of an outpatient anxiety clinic in Westchester, NY, and directs its Anxiety Day Program, which provides daily treatment programming for adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and school avoidance.
Dr. Puliafico frequently presents on the topic of school avoidance and consults with schools and local agencies on supporting youth and families struggling with school avoidance. Dr. Puliafico is the co-author of "The OCD Workbook for Kids" and is a co-developer of the CALM Program for young children with anxiety.
Clinical Director – Anxiety & School Avoidance Treatment Program
Dr. Dina Nunziato is a clinical director of an anxiety treatment program in Greenwich, Connecticut, providing partial treatment programs and customizable outpatient services for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and school avoidance.
Dr. Nunziato has helped young adults in anxiety-related clinical and educational settings for twenty years. She specializes in Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety and related disorders. Her research and publications include evidence-based mindfulness techniques to support anxiety management, academic success, and emotional well-being.
Most recently, Dr. Nunziato completed a doctoral dissertation entitled Embodied Learning Communities of Practice in Addressing College Student Anxiety.
School Psychologist & Founder – Center for One Consulting
Krystina Dawson, M.S.Ed., is a certified school psychologist and special education administrator in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is experienced and dedicated to leading teams and building plans to reintegrate kids with school avoidance back into school.
She is an adjunct professor at Iona College, teaching graduate classes for mental health students and future school psychologists. Such as: "Consultation and Collaboration in Schools," "Social Psychology," "Psychological Aspects of Sexual Health," "Contemporary Issues in School Psychology," and "Exceptional Individuals."
Krystina is the founder of a private consulting agency, Center for One, which supports families and unique learners through the special education process.
Professor of Psychiatry & Chief of Child Psychology
Dr. Piacentini is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Chief of Child Psychology at a leading medical school, and directs a child anxiety resilience center as well as a child OCD, anxiety and tic disorders program.
Dr. Piacentini has authored over 300 scientific publications, including seven books, and has received numerous NIH and other grants assessing the etiology, assessment, and treatment of childhood anxiety, OCD, tic disorders, and adolescent suicide.
He is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the TLC Foundation for BFRBs, SAB Co-Chair for the Tourette Association of America, former president of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.
Founder, School Avoidance Alliance
For the past decade, Jayne has worked with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, The New Jersey Stigma-Free Movement, and the Children's Interagency Council on awareness, access, education, and interventions to improve children's mental healthcare. In 2014 she started the School Avoidance Alliance to help educate families and schools on school avoidance best practices and evidence-based solutions.
The School Avoidance Alliance website, The School Avoidance Parent's Ultimate Guide to Working with Your School, Parent Peer-to-Peer Support group, School Avoidance Master Class for Parents, and School Avoidance Educator course have been recognized in the United States and globally as leading school avoidance resources. Jayne serves on the International Network for School Attendance's conference committee (INSA) and was a featured speaker at INSA's Making Waves in School Attendance Annual Conference in the Netherlands in October 2022.
Customer experience
A 16-school New Jersey district
In its response to the 2026 Impact & Benchmarking Survey, the district reported that, during its first cohort of implementation:
These results reflect one district's reported experience. Outcomes vary by setting and implementation.
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Getting started
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FAQs
Each package has a fixed annual price. Select “View price & enroll” on your preferred plan to see its current price and purchase details before paying. You do not need to request a quote or book a call.
Each plan is an annual site license with unlimited staff access within the school or district scope you purchase.
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Choose the purchase-order option after selecting your plan. We will provide the next steps for your business office. Access begins once your purchase order is accepted under the agreed terms; submitting a request alone does not activate access.
All plans include family-informed educator guidance and parent communication templates. District and District + Live Support also include parent portal access for district families.
School includes self-paced training and resources. District adds one live virtual strategy and Q&A session. District + Live Support includes that strategy session plus four additional scheduled consultation and office-hours sessions during the year.
Staff receive a certificate of completion after finishing the course. If they intend to submit it for continuing education credit, they should check their governing body's requirements.
Your business office can determine which funding sources are appropriate for your school or district. Use the plan summary to review the training and resources with them, then follow the pricing link to review the annual cost.
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