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Title: Establishing School-Based, Collaborative Teams to Coordinate Resources: A Case Study

Description: This journal article presents a case study of the establishment of school based collaborative teams designed to coordinate and enhance a school's support service resources. Factors contributing to the establishment of resource coordination teams were strong commitment from participants, successes learning to tangible results, and effective guidance and support from a change agent. Implications for expansion of the role of school social workers are explored, as are recommendations for how school social workers can be prepared to assume these roles. Keywords: collaboration, enabling, school teams, services, integration, support, services, school, learning, learning, support, strategies, standard based reform,

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