School Assistance Program

Problem

When children are absent from school, there is a significant loss of learning opportunities, which limits their ability to reach their full developmental potential as they would if they attended regularly.

A study in Chile shows that missing school has a negative impact on children's learning. In fact, chronic absenteeism (missing more than 10% of school days) in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten has been shown to be associated with worse performance in SIMCE in second and fourth grade, both in mathematics and language (González and Kluttig, 2019).

Our proposal

The School Attendance program provides tools and strategies to school principals, management and educational teams of public schools and kindergartens, aimed at promoting and increasing school attendance of children in early childhood education.

1.- Implementation of the Assistance Program:
Our implementation model is 2 years with direct accompaniment. We invite you to learn about our implementation model.

Support for our own programs:
We support our foundation's Un Buen Comienzo and We Learn programs to promote and improve school attendance.

3.- Promotion of a culture of assistance:
We have a variety of resources to promote attendance:
- Campaign Get them off the ground
- International assistance seminars
- Animated series Super Assistance and messages from our corporeal body.
- Free assistance courses at Oportunidadenlinea.cl

4-. Data Management:
We have attendance data that supports the effectiveness of our Assistance Program. View attendance data

5.- National and international collaborations:
- We collaborate with JUNJI in its national kindergarten attendance and permanence project.
- We lead the INSA Chile Network, the only Latin American country in INSA international and we are part of its executive team.
- We participate in relevant congresses and seminars on school attendance topics. In October 2024 we participated in the INSA international congress in New Orleans.

Currently:

• We advise JUNJI in its national kindergarten attendance and permanence project, which allows us to reach more than 90 thousand children, equivalent to 10% of kindergarten enrollment nationwide.
• We implemented our program in Integra Foundation (Arica and Parinacota, Valparaiso and O'Higgins regions), SIP School Network, Santiago Children's Corporation, DAEM Casablanca, Open Arms Foundation, Cristo Vive Foundation, Betterland School.

Within the framework of the international congress of the International Network for School Attendance (INSA) held in Holland in 2022 -and where we had an outstanding participation- we brought this experience to Chile, becoming the first country in Latin America to have this collaborative alliance whose purpose is to promote school attendance and thus contribute to the protection of educational trajectories.

Since 2023, Fundación Educacional Oportunidad has been convening and bringing together various actors to form the INSA Chile Network. Currently, the Ministry of Education, the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE), Fundación Presente, Fundación Belén Educa, Fundación Belén Educa, Fundación Educacional Arauco, Bien Público and Corporación Educacional Emprender are also part of the network.

Through local experiences and joint work, the INSA Chile Network seeks to be a national and international reference in the field of school assistance, promoting educational practices and aspiring to influence public policies that ensure inclusive and quality education for all girls and boys.

Description of the national network on INSA International website Chile - INSA Network

We invite you to learn more about our network by following this link My Country Chile Newsletter