TOPIC: Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles
• Establishing School-Based Collaborative Teams to Coordinate Resources: A Case Study
• H.S. Adelman (1996). Restructuring Education Support Services: Toward the Concept of an Enabling Component. Kent, OH: American School Health Association.
• 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.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268
• H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Guide 7: Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Impediments to Enhancing Availability of Mental Health Services in Schools: Fragmentation, Overspecialization, Counterproductive Competition, and Marginalization. Paper commissioned by the National Association of School Psychologists and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services (ERIC/CASS). Published by the ERIC/CASS Clearinghouse.
• H. S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1998). Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning. Special issue of Journal of Preventing School Failure, 42(2), 55-60M
• 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
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2006). School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment.State Education Standard, 7(1), 38-43.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). System reform to address barriers to learning: Beyond school-linked services and full service schools. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(3), 408-421.
• H.S. Adelman, L. Taylor, B. Bradley, & K.D. Lewis (1997). Mental Health in Schools: Expanded Opportunities for School Nurses. Journal of School Nursing, 13(3), 6-12.
• L. Taylor, P. Nelson, & H.S. Adelman (1999). Scaling-Up Reforms Across a School District. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 15(4), 303-326.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Connecting Schools, Families and Communities. Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1998). A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide School-Community Connections. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 17(3/4) 62-70.
• L. Taylor & H. Adelman (2006). Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?The School Service Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press

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

Center Policy and Program Analysis Briefs
• A Center Report: Toward Enhancing Resource Center Collaboration (June 2001)
• Center Brief: Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
• Center Policy Brief: Building Collaboration for Mental Health Services in California Schools: What Will be Built?
• Center Policy Report: Addressing Barriers to Student Learning: Closing Gaps in School/Community Policy and Practice

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
• A Center Report: Resource Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports
• Guides to Practice: School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
• Guides to Practice: Sustaining School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit
• H.S. Adelman, & L. Taylor (2002). Guide 7: Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools. Developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

Introductory Packets
• Introductory Packet: Confidentiality and Informed Consent
• Introductory Packet: 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)

Technical Aid Packets & Tools
• Technical Aid Packet: Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change
• Technical Aid Packet: School-Based Client Consultation, Referral and Management of Care

Training Tutorials
• Training Tutorial: Community Outreach: School-Community Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Training Tutorial: Creating the Infrastructure for an Enabling (Learning Support) Component to Address Barriers to Student Learning

Clearinghouse Archived Materials
• Achieving Coordinated School-Linked Services
• Confidentiality and Collaboration: Information Sharing in Interagency Efforts
• Examples of the Development of Joint-Use Educational Facility Agreements (PDF Document, 30K)
• Practical Assessment and Evaluation within Collaboration Services Program
• Samples of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
• Example to Download - in PDF format
• Serving Children, Youth and Families through Interprofessional Collaboration and Service Integration: A Framework for Action
• Streamlining Interagency Collaboration for Youth at Risk
• Who Should Know What? Confidentiality and Information Sharing in Services Integration
• Why Support a Coordinated Approach to School Health?
• Working Paper: IASA State Plan Subcommittee for Links Among Schools, Families, and Communities
• Working Together, Moving Ahead: A Manual to Support Effective Community Health Conditions
• Youth and Family Training Centers: Training Component

• Advancing the Healthy People 2010 Objective through Community-based Education: A Curriculum Planning Guide" (2003) Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
• Back to School: Community Groups and School Reform
• Building Coalitions to Bring About Change (2002) The Urban Seminar Series on Children's Health and Safety
• Building NGO/CBO capacity for organizational outreach: Management and training design tools
• Building Relationships Between Schools and Social Services
• California's Efforts Toward School-Linked, Integrated, Comprehensive Services
• 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)
• Child Care and Development Fund and 21st Century Community Learning Centers: State Efforts to Facilitate Coordination for After School Programs
• Clients, consumers, or collaborators? Parents and their roles in school reform
• Coalition Sustainability: Long-Term Successes and Lessons Learned
• Coalitions 101: Getting Started
• Collaborative relationships: school counselors and non-school mental health professional working together to improve the mental health needs fo students
• "The Collaboration Primer: Proven strategies, considerations, and tools to get you started"
• Community Engaged Scholarship
• "Community Organizing: A Tool for Building Community Schools"
• Connecting Communities for Better Health Learning Network and Resource Center
• "Connecting Libraries and Schools Program.
• Creative Partnerships: Supporting Youth, Building Communities (2002)
• Critical Issue: Addressing Confidentiality Concerns in School-Linked Integrated Service Efforts
• Critical Issue: Restructuring Schools to Support School-Linked Services
• Cross City Campaign for School Reform and Research for Action's Indicators Project
• Developing Collaborative ESMH Programs (CSMHA)
• "Do universities have a role in managing public schools?" (2003) N. Streim, et al
• Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections
• Evaluation Exchange
• Forming, Funding, and Maintaining Partnerships and Collaborations
• Glass Walls: Confidentiality Provisions and Interagency Collaborations
• Healthy Children, Successful Students Comprehensive School Health Programs
• "A lexicon of Learning: What educators mean when they say..."
• Mental Health, School, and Families Working Together: Toward a Shared Agenda
• National Association of County & City Health Officials: Mental Health -- Collaboration between mental health and public health
• No Time for Turf (2005) Council of Chief State School Officers
• On Community - Journal of Curriculum and Supervision
• "Partnerships for Change: Community-Union Collaboration in Public Education" (2003) Education Organizing
• Position Statement on Interagency Collaboration to Support the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families
• P-16 Collaboration in the States (2006)
• Practice and Process in Wraparound Teamwork (2004)
• School-Linked Services.  Special Edition of The Future of Children, Vol.2(1), Spring, 1992
• Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit
• 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
• What Does Research Say About Interagency Collaboration?
• Working Better Together: How Government, Business, and Nonprofit Organization Can Achieve Public Purposes though Cross-Sector Collaboration, Alliances, and Partnerships
• Youth and Family Centers

• 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
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Center for Services Integration
• National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS)
• National Network for Collaboration
• The Partnership Self-Assessment Tool
• Policy-maker Partnership
• School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts

• Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform : An Odyssey toward Connections. By N. Dorsch. (1998). Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press.
• 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")
• 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.
• 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.
• The School Buddy System : the Practice of Collaboration. by G. Bush. (2003). Publisher Chicago : American Library Association.
• Working Together in Schools: A Guide for Educators Donaldson, G.A., & Sanderson, D.R. (1996). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press

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