TOPIC: School-Linked Services

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Chapters

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
• School-community relations: Policy and practice
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?

Articles

• C. Lim & H.S. Adelman (1997). Establishing School-based Collaborative Teams to Coordinate Resources: A Case Study. Social Work in Education, 19(4), 266-277.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268
• 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.S. Adelman (1998). A School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment journal of the National Association of State Boards of Education, 7, 38-43.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (1998). Creating school and community partnerships for substance abuse prevention programs. Journal of Primary Prevention, 23, 331-369.
• 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.

Guides

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

Introductory Packets

• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes

• Integrating Mental Health in Schools: Schools, School-Based Centers, and Community Programs Working Together
• Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems: An Overview of the State Grants from the U.S. Department of Education Program
• Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation

Newsletter

• School Linked Services and Beyond
• Working in Schools: Q and A

Practice Notes

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

Quick Training Aid

• Case Management in the School Context

Technical Aid Packet

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral and Management of Care

Technical Assistance Sampler

• School-Based Health Centers

Training Tutorial

• Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

• Characteristics of Integrated Services
• Critical Issue: Restructuring Schools to Support School-Linked Services
• Examples of the Development of Joint-Use Educational Facility Agreements
• Exemplary School-Linked Comprehensive Programs (Model Programs and Contact Information)Part 1.
• Exemplary School-Linked Comprehensive Programs (Model Programs and Contact Information)Part 2
• Federal Support for Links between Schools and Comprehensive Strategies
• Potential protective effect of the community involvment asset on adolescent risk behaviors (2006) S. Rodine, et al. Journal of Youth Development , 1(1)
• Principles for school based services
• Putting the Pieces Together: Comprehensive School-Linked Strategies for Children and Families
• School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families
• School-Linked Services
• School-Linked Services. Special Edition of The Future of Children.
• Teachers and Collaborative School-Linked Services
• Towards Meeting the Needs of Adolescents: An Assessment of Federally Funded Adolescent Health Programs and Initiatives within the Department of Health and Human Services
• Working Together: School-Family-Community Partnerships
• Working with Young People as Partners: A Guide For School-Linked Services Sites

• Advocates for Youth
• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
• Children First: The Website of the National PTA
• School Health Resources Services
• SchoolMentalHealth.org
• The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care
• The National Association of Community Health Centers

• Full Service Community Schools: Prevention Of Delinquency In Students With Mental Illness And/or Poverty by Robert F. Kronick (2005). Charles C. Thomas Publisher.
• A Guide to Psychiatric Services in Schools: Understanding Roles, Treatment, and Collaboration. By Brent, S. (2011). Routledge.
• Integrating Services, Collaborating, and Developing Connections with Schools. By, H.L. Lawson & W. Sailor (2000). Focus on Exceptional Children, 33, 1-22.
• School-Community Connections: Strengthening Opportunity to Learn and Opportunity to Teach. By, M. Honig, J. Kahne, & M. McLaughlin (2001). In V. Richardson (Ed.), Fourth Handbook of Research on Teaching. New York: Macmillan.
• School-linked services as interprofessional collaboration in student education: Social Work by Cynthia Franklin and Calvin L. Streeter (2005). National Association of Social Workers.

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