TOPIC: Memoranda of Agreements (including joint agency agreements, MOU's)

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Articles

• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman (1998). Confidentiality: Competing principles, inevitable dilemmas. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 9, 267-275.
• 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.
• 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

Continuing Education Module

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools

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

• Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
• Making MOUs Meaningful

Guides to Policy & Program Development & Practice

• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide

Introductory Packets

• Confidentiality and Informed Consent

• Getting It Together: Making a Difference with School-Community Partnerships
• Glass Walls: Confidentiality Provisions and Interagency Collaborations (includes sample Protocols on Consent)
• Interagency Agreement - Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems Grant
• Interagency Memorandum of Agreement (sample)
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Public Instruction/Public School Districts and the Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families - Division of Family Services
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the New York State Education Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• Memorandum of Understanding Outlines Process for Collaboration and Exchange of Information
• Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Cooperation and Collaboration in Providing Services to Students with Disabilities ages 14-21 in North Dakota (pdf document)
• School Based Health Center Memorandum of Understanding
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Dept. of Mental Health, Community Services Agency and DC Public School System (PDF Document, 20K)
• Memorandum of Understanding between Elizabeth Learning Center and UCLA (PDF Document, 10K)

• Evaluating community collaboration in writing interagency agreements on the age 3 transition. Fowler, SA, Donegan, M, Lueke, B, Hadden, DS, Phillips, B (2000). Exceptional Children, 67(1): p. 35-50.
• Managing conflict on local interagency coordinating councils. Wischnowski, MW, McCollum, JA (1995). Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 15 (3): p. 281-295.
• The School and Community Relations, 10th Edition. By Moore, E.H., Bagin, D.H. & Gallagher, D.R. (2011). Prentice Hall.
• Supports and barriers to writing an interagency agreement on the preschool transition. Wischnowski, MW, Fowler, SA, McCollum, JA (2000). Journal of Early Intervention, 23(4): p. 294-307.

 

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