A copy of Truth’s SY2025-2026 Student Handbook Discipline Policies (including Truth’s response-to-behaviors matrix) can be found here.

Reporting Absences

If your student is going to miss a class period or a full day, please let us know by emailing excusenotes@truthpcs.org. This allows us to then make sure your student’s teachers are aware, and also for us to excuse the absence when appropriate.

Sojourner Truth’s 2024-2025 School Health Profile can be downloaded here.

Truth’s Home and Hospital Instruction policy (including a link to apply for HHI) is here.

Truth’s Continuous Education Plan (CEP)

Click here to find an updated copy of Truth’s Continuous Education Plan from SY2023-2024. (*note: This version was last updated on 8/30/2023)

Additional Resources:

• FY24 Schoolwide Programming Plan doc

• Meal sites for DC Public Charter School students (locations and times)

• DC’s Coronavirus Resource Page

• ChAMPS  (CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MOBILE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE) OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES(202) 481-1440 24/7 Crisis Line 24/7 Crisis Line

• CFSA 2026717233

• Suicide Hotline: 800-SUICIDE/800-784-2433

• Psychiatric Emergency Service (24 hrs): 202-561-7000

• Crisis and Family Stress (24 hrs): 202-223-2255

• La Clinica del Pueblo (Spanish): 202-462-4788

• CPS Washington, DC: 202-442-6000/202-671-7233 (After 5pm)

• DC Rape Crisis Center (24 hrs): 202-333-RAPE/202-333-7273

• ADAPT Program Intake Line (for abusive men): 703-968-4000/703-968-4052

• Andromeda Transcultural Mental Health Center: 202-291-4707

  (Monday-Friday, 9AM–5PM, Spanish available)

• Battered Women’s Shelter, Arlington: 703-237-0881

• Center of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington: 202-743-7772

• Child Abuse Hotlines: 800-552-7096/800-422-4453

• Children & Family Services Division: 202-727-0284

• D.C. Adult Protective Services Hotline: 202-541-3950

• Domestic Violence Hotlines: 800-799-7233

• Family Violence and Sexual Assault Hotlines: 800-838-8238/800-656-4673

• House of Ruth Domestic Violence Hotline (24 hrs): 202-667-7001

• My Sister’s Place (24 hrs): 202-529-5991

• Runaway Switchboard (Teen Shelter): 800-SAY-TEEN/800-729-8336

• Women’s Shelter, Fairfax: 703-435-4940

• DC Access Hotline: (877) 7WE-HELP

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255

• National Youth Crisis Hotline: (800) 442-4673