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45 Attachmentreferrals will be made electronically. Chronic truancy continues to be challenging with somefamilies and children failing to appreciate the opportunities education can provide.All 16 schools within the remit of Taumarunui Integrated Attendance Service have receivedand distributed pro attendance brochures to their students, a total of 1300 have beendistributed. Additionally all Primary schools (15) received posters for both their junior schooland senior school to spread pro messages on school attendance. Both initiatives havebeen funded through the Proactive Investment Fund from MoE; this activity could not havetaken place without this funding and the support of Council. The Social Sector Trials Leadsupplied key attendance messages and photos to the Ruapehu District CouncilCommunications Manager who then formatted the information.Visits were made to all businesses in Taumarunui to refresh the Truant Free zone, to thankthem for their commitment to the initiative and to remind retailers of the aims of the project.Businesses were very receptive and positive about the resources and showed commitmentto the project all businesses received a guide, useful contact numbers list and to showschool term dates.Reduce offending by young people Taumarunui High School Academic Academy worked in conjunction with Ruapehu DistrictCouncil on three community projects to eradicate graffiti in Taumarunui, the paint outprojects involved 40 students. Graffiti eradication continues to be a challenge, positivelyone that the majority of young people support. The DRIVE youth recidivist offending programme has provided a total of 396 mentoringsessions, since it began in 2012, this excludes times when the mentor spots the youngperson in a casual setting and refers to specific meetings or activities. June has seen a peak in youth offending, this is very disappointing as the young peoplemany of which are recidivist offenders had been crime free for between 6 and 18 months. Ithink we need to be mindful that the youth involved have the highest risk of offending andaccept it as a setback. Volunteer mentors who work with the youth are undeterred and willcontinue to support the young people. Despite this Police advocate the incidence and severity of crime has reduced and overallyouth offending has declined.Reduce levels of alcohol and other drug (A&OD) use in young peopleThe Smashed and Stoned training provided by the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) on the12th and 13 th February was well attended by 14 individuals. Feedback has been reallypositive and the training provided the skills so individuals that work with youth on a dailybasis are able to broach the subject of drug / alcohol use. Peter Thorburn the trainer has