TOPIC: Community Outreach for Involvement and Support

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books with relevant chapters  
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Improving School Improvement
• Embedding Mental Health as Schools Change Embedding Mental Health as Schools Change


Guides

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
• Sustaining School and Community Efforts to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit

Introductory Packets
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Policy Notes
• Integrated Student Supports and Equity: What’s Not Being Discussed?

Hot Issue

• Moving Beyond the Concept of Integrated Student Supports

Technical Assistance Samplers
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix F: Community Outreach and Support - Mentor/Volunteer Programs
• Appendix F: Community Outreach and Support - School-Community Partnerships
• Appendix F: Community Outreach and Support - Economic Development

Training Tutorial
• Community Outreach: School Community Resources to Address Barriers to Learning

Fact & Information Resources, Guidance Notes, Practice Notes and Tools for Practice
• Addressing Neighborhood Problems that Affecct the School (Practice Notes)
• Agencies Addressing Problems of CHildren and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools
• Community Outreach for Involvement and Support: A Self-study Survey
• Re-engaging Disconnected Students Online and at School: Focus on Intrinsic Motivation
• School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey (Tools for Practice)
• Schools, Families, and Community Working Together: Building and Effective Collaborative (Guidance Notes)
• Service-learning and Community Service Clubs in Schools
• Service Learning in Schools
• Service learning Can Enhance Social Emotional Development

Technical Aid Packets
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs
• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/ Community Policy and Practice
• New Directions for School & Community Initiatives to Address Barriers to Learning: Two Examples of White Papers to Inform and Guide Policy Makers

Center Report
• Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation

Resource Aid Packets & Tools
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Newsletters
• School-Community Partnerships from the School's Perspective

Articles
• Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model.
• Connecting Schools, Families and Communities.
• Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs.
• School-community relations: Policy and practice.
• A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide Schools-Community Connections.
• School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment.
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?
• Fostering School, Family and Community Involvement.
• School Dropout Prevention: A Public Health Role for Primary Health Care Providers.
• Expanding school improvement policy to better address barriers to learning and integrate public health concerns.
Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet
• ACE Mentor Program
• Building Communities From the Inside Out
• Can Community and School-Based Supports Improve the Achievement of First-Generation Immigrant Children Attending High-Poverty Schools?
• Community Matters
• Engaging and Working in Solidarity With Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of Their Children
• Junior Achievement
• Keeping Students First: Building Community Labor Partnerships for Strong Schools
• Moving Beyond Monitoring: A District Leadership Approach to School, Family, and Community Partnerships
• The One Voice Project: A Case of Complexity in Community-Driven Education Reform
• Urban School-Community Alliances
• Youth Service America
• Youth Social Marketing Toolkit
Related Agencies and Web Sites
• America's Promise Alliance
• Institute for Minority and Urban Education
• The National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE)
• Sense of Community
• Youth.gov

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