Special Resource Material Developed by the Center
Title: Pursuing Promise Neighborhoods: With or Without the Grant Program (Policy & Practice Brief)
Description: The federal Promise Neighborhoods program underscores the importance of
all children and youth having ?access to great schools and strong systems of
family and community support that will prepare them to attain an excellent
education and successfully transition to college and a career.? From this
perspective, this brief stresses the importance for grantees to use what has
b e e n learned about
- rethinking and coalescing existing programs and services in order
to develop a unified and comprehensive system
- establishing an effective school, home, and community collaborative
to weave together different funding streams, reduce redundancy, and
redeploy available resources.
The brief also states that there is no reason for non-grantees to wait for
findings from the demonstration projects. Any locale, despite sparse dollars,
can use available resources to begin the process.
As design aids, prototypes are offered for a unifying intervention framework
and for a school, home, and community collaborative infrastructure. Access at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/purpromneig.pdf 105kb;18pp
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