Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Related Agencies and Websites

• At Risk Youth: School-Community Collaborations Focus on Improving Student Outcomes
• The Center for Family-School Collaboration
• Center on School, Family, and Community, Partnerships
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
• Communities In Schools
• Community Toolbox
• The Federation for Community Schools
• Find Youth Info
• 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
• 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

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 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