TOPIC: Community Outreach for Involvement and Support

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Guides

• 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

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

• Community Outreach for Involvement and Support: A Self-study Survey
• School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey (Tools for Practice)
• Schools, Families, and Community Working Together: Building and Effective Collaborative (Guidance Notes)

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

• School-Community Collaboration to Improve the School Survey in: 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.(Winter, '99)

Articles

• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs. Los Angeles, Ca: UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools, Dept of Psychology
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model. School Psychology Review, 25,431-445
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Connecting Schools, Families and Communities. Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
• L. Taylor & H. Adelman (2006). Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages? The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press
• H. Adelman L. Taylor &(2007). Fostering School, Family and Community Involvement The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence & Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Oxford University Press
• L. Taylor & H. Adelman (2006). A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide Schools-Community Connections Los Angeles,Ca: UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools, Dept of Psychology
• L. Taylor & H. Adelman (2003). School-community relations: Policy and practice. Ensuring Safe School Environments: Exploring Issues-Seeking Solutions ,Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
• H. Adelman & L. Taylor (2006). School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment The Journal of the National Association of the State Boards of Education

• Action Guide for Community and Parent Leaders
• Assertive Community Treatment Evidence-Based Practice KIT
• Closing the Achievement Gap
• Community and Economic Development
• Community guide to helping America's Youth
• Creating Better Communities: A Study of Social Capital Creation in Four Communities
• Engaging Public Support for Teachers' Professional Development
• Engaging the community to support student achievement.
• Guide to Community Preventive Services
• Meeting Youth Needs with Community Programs
• SenseofCommunity.com
• Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A Toolkit for Community- and Faith-Based Service Providers
• It Takes a Library to Raise a Community (a powerpoint presentation)
• Urban School-Community Alliances
• Youth Development Resource Manual (2006)
• Working Together: School-Family-Community Partnerships
• Organizations Working in Schools
• Community Bridge: Working with Schools
• America's Promise Alliance

• Center for Community Outreach
• Community-Wealth.org
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
• Learn and Serve
• Resource Project: Community Interventions(Training Curriculum)
• National Service-Learning Partnership
• Office of University Partnerships
• Communities in Schools

Relevant Publications that Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• Cities, counties, kids, and families: The essential role of local government. By Gardner, S. 2005. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, Inc.
• The Role of "Community" in Comprehensive School, FAmily, and Community Partnership Programs By Sanders, M., 2001. In Elementary School Journal, 102, 19-34.
• Home, School and Community Relations: A Guide to Working with Families. By Gestwicki, C. 2006. Thomson Learning Inc. Thomson Learning.
• School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action. By Epstein, J., Sanders, M., Sheldon, S., & Simon, B. 2008. Corwin Press
• School and Community Relations, The (9th Edition). By Bagin, D., Gallagher, D., Moore, E. 2007.
• The Administrator's Guide to School Community Relations. By Pawlas, G. Ph.D. 2005. Eye on Education, Inc.

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