TOPIC: Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

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

Center Report

• Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation

Introductory Packets

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

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

• School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey
• Schools, Families, and Community Working Together: Building an Effective Collaborative
• Community Outreach for Involvement and Support: A Self-study Survey

Practice Notes

• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use

Newsletters

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

Training Tutorials

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

Articles

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268.
• 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).

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?
• 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)
• Understanding Community Schools as Collaboratives for System Building to Address Barriers and Promote Well-Being

Resource Aid Packet

• School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey in: 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

Continuing Education Modules

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

Net Exchange

• School-Agency Relationships & Bureaucratic Concerns

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Education
• Addressing Confidentiality Concerns in School-Linked Integrated Service Efforts
• Aligning Health and Education in the School Setting
• Building a Highway to Higher Ed: How Collaborative Efforts are Changing Education in America
• Building Family-School Partnerships that Work
• Building Full-Service School: A Step-by-Step Guide
• The Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health
• Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships Promising Practices
• Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform
• The Challenges of Building Local Collaboratives for Sustaining Educational Improvement>
• Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform
• Community-Based Development and Local Schools: A Promising Partnership
• Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
• Community Partner Summit
• A Compact for Learning: An Action Handbook for Family-School-Community Partnerships
• Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections
• Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections
• Family Involvement in Children's Education
• A Guide to Promising Practices in Educational Partnerships
• Handbook on Family and Community Engagement
• A Lexicon of Learning
• Maryland Association of Local Management Boards FY2007 Annual Report
• Mayoral Leadership and Involvement in Education
• National Invitational Conference on School-Family Partnerships
• A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
• Partnerships for Change: Community-Union Collaboration in Public Education
• Perspectives in Urban and Rural Schools and Their Communities: Making Connections
• Research Links Education Levels with Economic, Social Well-Being
• Restructuring Schools to Support School-Linked Services
• Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships
• School/Community Collaboration: Comparing Three Initiatives
• State Laws on Family Engagement in Education
• STRIVE: Every child, every step of the way, cradle to career
• Unlocking the Schoolhouse Door: The Community Struggle for a Say in Our Children's Education
• Urban Teachers and Collaborative School-Linked Services.
• Vital Voices: Building Constituencies for Public School Reform

Health/Mental Health

• Advancing the Healthy People 2010 Objectives through Community-Based Education: A Curriculum Planning Guide
• AED: Center for School and Community Services
• Collaborative Relationships: School Counselors and Non-School Mental Health Professional Working Together to Improve the Mental Health Needs of Students
• Coordinating Care for Children with Serious Mental Health Challenges
• A Guide to Developing State Child Health 'Improvement Partnerships'
• Guidelines for School-Community Partnerships: Addressing the Unmet Mental Health Needs of School-Aged Youth
• National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health
• Position Statement on Interagency Collaboration to Support the Mental Health Needs of Children and Families
• Principles for Collaboration between Mental Health and Public Health
• Schools as Entry Points for Children’s Mental Health Services
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Social Marketing for Community Groups Who Work with Youth

Family/Youth

• The Case for School-Based Integration of Services: Changing the Ways Students, Families and Communities Engage with their Schools
• Harvard: Family Involvement Networks of Educators
• Tips for Parents on Keeping Children Drug-Free
• Youth & Family Resource Center, Inc.

General

• A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education
• Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes
• 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
• Coalition Sustainability: Long-Term Successes and Lessons Learned
• Collaboration Framework: Addressing Community Capacity
• The Collaboration Primer: Proven Strategies, Considerations, and Tools to Get You Started
• Collaborative School Planning and Active Schools: A Case Study of Lee County, Florida
• Developing Collaborative ESMH Programs
• Do Universities Have a Role in Managing Public Schools: Lessons from the Penn Partnership Schools
• Evaluating Collaboratives: Reaching the Potential
• The Evaluation Exchange: A Periodical on Emerging Strategies in Evaluations
• Faith-Based Organizations Delivering Local Services
• Glass Walls: Confidentiality Provisions and Interagency Collaborations
• The Guide to Community Preventive Services
• Multiple Pathways Connecting to School and Work
• On Community: Journal of Curriculum and Supervision
• P-16 Collaboration in the States
• Promise neighborhood Research Consortium
• A Public Health Approach to Children's Mental Health: A Conceptual Framework
• Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit
• Understanding Interdisciplinary Collaborations as Social Networks
• White House Council for Community Schools

Video Clips

• The Importance of Teamwork: A State Example and a New Opportunity
• Our Schools Today

Related Agencies and Websites

• Ackerman Institute for the Family
• Center for Education Organizing


• Child and Family Policy Center
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
• Community Science
• The Community Tool Box
• The Federation for Community Schools
• Find Youth Info
• Institute for Educational Leadership
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Center for Schools and Communities
• National Network for Collaboration
• National Network of Partnership Schools
• Netter Center for Community Partnerships
• Partnership Self-Assessment Tool
• 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.
• If at First You Don't Succeed… Keep Trying: Strategies to Enhance Coalition/School Partnerships to Implement School-Based Prevention Programming. By Abigail A. Fagan, Blair Brooke-Weiss, Rick Cady & J. David Hawkins. (2009). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 42(3), 387-405.
• 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.
• The School and Community Relations. By Moore, E.; Bagin, D. & Gallagher, D. (2011). Prentice Hall. Print.
• School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools. By Epstein, J. (2010). Westview Press.
• 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

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