The Minn-Link project in the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare has released a follow-up to a study of changes in school attendance for children whose families had contact with child welfare services four years earlier. The original study found the school attendance of 71.9% of children had improved one year after receiving some type of services. The MinnLInk study indicates that children whose attendance initially improved one year after services generally maintained better attendance for up three years later compared to children whose attendance did not initially improve. Read the study.