TOPIC: Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• Beyond Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment : The Concept of Least Intervention Needed and the Need for Continuum of Community-school Programs/Services H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). (Prepared for a forum sponsored by the National Association of State Director of Special Education.)
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268
• Connecting Schools, Families and Communities. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
• Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002)Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools.
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2007). Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory & Hamilton Fish Institute.
• A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide School-Community Connections. L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1998). Rural Special Education Quarterly, 17(3/4) 62-70.
• Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). School Psychology Review, 25,431-445
• School-Community Relations: Policy and Practice L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2003). In Fishbaugh, et al., (Eds.), Ensuring safe school environments: Exploring issues– seeking solutions. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2006). State Education Standard, 7(1), 38-43.
• System reform to address barriers to learning: Beyond school-linked services and full service schools. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(3), 408-421.
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages? L. Taylor & H. Adelman (2006). The School Service Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press

Continuing Education Modules

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools
• Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance learning Supports

Center Policy and Program Analysis Briefs

• Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/Community Policy and Practice
• Building Collaboration for Mental Health Services in California Schools: What Will be Built?
• Creating school and community partnerships for substance abuse prevention programs
• Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
• New Directions for School & Community Initiatives to Address Barriers to Learning: Two Examples of White Papers to Inform and Guide Policy Makers (February 2002)

Fact & Information Resources, Guidance Notes, Practice Notes, and Tools for Practice

• Tools for Practice: School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey

Guides to Policy & Program Development and Practice

• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
• Sustaining School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit

Introductory Packets

• Confidentiality and Informed Consent
• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Newsletters

• Newsletter: Article: Community Resources that Could Partner with Schools (Winter, '99)
• Newsletter: CSSS - Hawaii`i's Comprehensive Student Support System... a multifaceted approach that encompasses & enhances MH in schools.(Summer, '01)
• Newsletter: Opening the Classroom Door.(Spring, '01)
• Newsletter: Safe Students/Healthy Schools: A Collaborative Process. (Spring, '03)
• Newsletter: School-Community Partnerships from the School's Perspective.(Winter, '99)
• Newsletter: School-Linked Services and Beyond (Spring, '96)

Resource Aid Packet

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Technical Aid Packets

• After-School Programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral and Management of Care
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and School Address Barriers to Learning

Training Tutorials

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

Net Exchange

• School-Agency Relationships & Bureaucratic Concerns
• Guide to Creating Comprehensive School-Linked Supports and Services for California Children and Families

• Education
  • Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: Community Partners Speak Out!
  • Building Family-School Partnerships that Work
  • A Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School-Community Partnerships
  • A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002)
  • Back to School: Community Groups and School Reform
  • Building Full-Service School
  • Building a Highway to Higher Ed: How Collaborative Efforts are Changing Education in America
  • Building NGO/CBO capacity for organizational outreach: Management and training design tools
  • Center for school, family and community partnerships promising practices
  • The Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health
  • The Challenges of Building Local Collaboratives for Sustaining Educational Improvement
  • Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform (2004)
  • Collaboration For Kids: The School Board's Role in Improving Children's Services
  • Communities and schools: a new view of urban education reform
  • Communities in Schools
  • Community Based Development and Local Schools: A Promising Partnership
  • Community Engaged Scholarship
  • Critical Issue: Addressing Confidentiality Concerns in School-Linked Integrated Service Efforts
  • Critical Issue: Restructuring Schools to Support School-Linked Services
  • Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections (2003) (PDF)
  • Education Policy Advisors' Network
  • Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections (2001) (PDF)
  • Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look
  • Family Involvement in Children's Education
  • A Lexicon of Learning: What Educators Mean When They Say...
  • Maryland Association of Local Management Boards FY2007 Annual Report
  • Mayoral Leadership and Involvement in Education(PDF)
  • National Center for Schools and Communities
  • No Time for Turf (2005) Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Perspectives in Urban and Rural Schools and Their Communities: Making Connections (ERIC Review)
  • Partnerships for Change: Community-Union Collaboration in Public Education (2003) Education Organizing(PDF)
  • Promoting Prevention Through School-Community Partnerships
  • Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools (PDF)
  • Research Links Education Levels with Well-Being of Communities and States (2003)
  • School-Community Partnerships: Effectively Integrating Community Building and Education Reform
  • School/Community Collaboration: Comparing Three Initiatives
  • School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
  • School-Family Partnerships
  • School-Linked Services.  Special Edition of The Future of Children, Vol.2(1), Spring, 1992
  • Unlocking the Schoolhouse Door: The Community Struggle for a Say in Our Children's Education
  • Urban Teachers and Collaborative School-Linked Services. ERIC Digest 96.
  • "Vital Voices: Building Constituencies for Public School Reform" (2003) Academy for Educational Development

• Health/Mental Health
  • Advancing the Healthy People 2010 Objective through Community-based Education: A Curriculum Planning Guide" (2003) Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
  • Building Bridges Between Residential and Nonresidential Services in Systems of Care
  • Building Constitutencies for Public School Reform (2003)
  • Collaborative relationships: school counselors and non-school mental health professional working together to improve the mental health needs fo students
  • Healthy Children, Successful Students Comprehensive School Health Programs
  • National Association of County & City Health Officials: Mental Health -- Collaboration between mental health and public health
  • Position Statement on Interagency Collaboration to Support the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families
  • Practice and Process in Wraparound Teamwork (2004)
  • The Role of State Public Health Agencies in Child Care (2004) (PDF)

• Family/Youth
  • Beyond Collaboration to Results: Hard Choices In The Future of Services To Children And Families
  • Growing Up Drug-Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention
  • Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP)
  • Youth and Family Centers

• General
  • A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (6/20/08) Economic Policy Institute
  • Building Relationships Between Schools and Social Services
  • Child Care and Development Fund and 21st Century Community Learning Centers: State Efforts to Facilitate Coordination for After School Programs(PDF)
  • Coalitions 101: Getting Started (PDF)
  • Coalition Sustainability: Long-Term Successes and Lessons Learned
  • Collaboration Framework
  • Collaborative school planning and active schools: a case study of Lee county, Florida (2008).
  • The Community Guide
  • Community Partnerships for protecting children: Phase II outcome evaluation
  • The Collaboration Primer: Proven strategies, considerations, and tools to get you started(PDF)
  • Community Organizing: A Tool for Building Community Schools
  • Developing Collaborative ESMH Programs (CSMH) (PDF)
  • Do universities have a role in managing public schools? (2003) N. Streim, et al
  • Evaluation Exchange
  • Faith-based organizations delivering local services
  • Forming, Funding, and Maintaining Partnerships and Collaborations
  • Glass Walls: Confidentiality Provisions and Interagency Collaborations
  Lessons in Collaboration
  • The New Community Collaboration Manual
  • On Community - Journal of Curriculum and Supervision
  • P-16 Collaboration in the States (2006) (PDF)
  • Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit(PDF)
  • Working Better Together: How Government, Business, and Nonprofit Organization Can Achieve Public Purposes though Cross-Sector Collaboration, Alliances, and Partnerships

• At Risk Youth: School-Community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes
• The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)/ American Institute for Research
• The Center for Family-School Collaboration
• Center on School, Family, and Community, Partnerships
• Child Mental Health Foundations and Agencies Network
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
• Community Toolbox
• The Federation for Community Schools
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Network for Collaboration
• National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS)
• The Partnership Self-Assessment Tool
• Policy-maker Partnership
• School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts
• Schools as Centers of Community: A Citizen's Guide for Planning and Design
• Southwest Education Development Laboratory

• Children's literacy development: Making it happen through school, family, and community involvement. Edwards, P.A.(2003). New York: Pearson. School, family, and community partnership: Preparing educators and improving schools. Oxford, UK: Westview Press.
• Common purpose: Strengthening families and neighborhoods to rebuild America. Schorr, L. B.(1997). New York: Anchor Books.
• Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform : An Odyssey toward Connections. By N. Dorsch. (1998). Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press.
• Community development and school reform: An overview. Crowson, R.L.(2001). In R.L.Crowson(Ed.), Community development and school reform(pp.1-18). New York: JAI.
• Community involvement in schools. Sanders, M.G.(2003). Education & Urban society, 35(2), 161-181.
• Community organizing for urban school reform.Shirley, D. (1997). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Developing community-empowered schools. Burke, M.A. , & Picus, L.O. (2001). Thousand Oaks,CA: Corwin Press.
• Families, schools, and communities: Together for young children. Couchenour, D.,& Chrisman, K. (2000). Albany, NY: Delmar.
• Forging Alliances in Community and Thought. edited by Guadarrama, Ramsey and Nath.(2002). Publisher Greenwich, CT : Information Age Pub.
• Guidelines for Protecting Confidential Student Health Information.  By Oddonne, Angela & Rubin, Marcia (2000).  American School Health Association (ASHA).  To order online please visit the ASHA website. (Go to "Publications" and then to "School Nurse/Health Services Material")
• Home, school, and community relations: A guide to working with families Gestwicki, C. (2000). (4th Ed.). Albany, NY: Delmar.
• How communities build stronger schools: Stories, strategies, and promising practices for educating every child. Dodd, A.W. & Konzal, J.L.(2002). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Free Press
• Improving schools through community engagement: A practical guide for educators. Chadwick, K.G.(2004). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press
• Meeting at the Hyphen : Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being. edited by Brabeck, Walsh and Latta. (2003). Publisher Chicago, Ill. : National Society for the Study of Education : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
• Promising Practices Connecting Schools to Families of Children with Special Needs. edited by D. Hiatt-Michael. (2004). Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub.
• Rethinking linkages between schools, families and communities. Smrekar, C., & Mawhinney, H.B. (1999). In J.Murphy &K. Seashore Lous (Eds.), Handbook of educational administration (pp. 602-636). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
• The role of "community" incomprehensive school, family, and community partnership programs. Sanders, M.G.(2001). Elementary School Journal, 102(1), 19-34.
• The School Buddy System : the Practice of Collaboration. by G. Bush. (2003). Publisher Chicago : American Library Association.
• Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs. Shinn, M; & Yoshikawa, H.(2008). Oxford university Press.
• School-Community Agency Collaboration: Implications for the School Counselor.   By, B.B. Hobbs & B.B. Collison (1995). School Counselor, Vol. 43 (1), p.58-65.
• School-community connections. Honig. M., Kahne, J.,& McLaughlin, M.W.(2001). In V.Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching. (4th Ed., pp. 998-1028). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
• School-community connections: A literature review. Keyes, M.C.,& Gregg, S. (2001) Charleston, SC: AEL Inc.
• School, family, and community partnership: Preparing educators and improving schools. Epstein, J.L. (2001). Oxford, UK: Westview Press.
• School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action (2nd Ed.). Epstein, J.L., Sanders, M.G. Simon, B.S., Salinas, K.C., Jansorn, N.R., & Van Voorhis, F.L. (2002). New York: Corwin Press
• Transforming schools through community organizing: A research review. Lopez, M.E.(2003). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Family Research Project
• Working Together in Schools: A Guide for Educators Donaldson, G.A., & Sanderson, D.R. (1996). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press

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