Special Resource Material Developed by the Center


Title: Integrated Student Supports and Equity: What’s Not Being Discussed? (Policy notes)

Description: Connecting school, home, and community resources is essential to the well-being of children and youth and to enhancing equity of opportunity for them to succeed at school and beyond. With this in mind, many initiatives and policy reports have focused on addressing the widespread fragmentation of supports for families and their children. Considerable policy emphasis has centered on the notion of integrated student supports. While most of the discussion of integrated student supports is well-intentioned, the examples most frequently cited have little chance of enhancing equity of opportunity for students across the country. Moreover, as practiced, serious unintended negative consequences have been observed. This set of policy notes stresses the need and directions for moving forward.

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/integpolicy.pdf  7pp; 50kb