TOPIC: Mapping Existing School and Community Resources for Addressing Barriers to Learning

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Technical Aid Packet
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change

Guidance Notes
• Moving toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: Mapping & Analyzing Learning Supports
• Analyzing What is Being Spent in Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Practice Notes
• An Aid for Initial Listing of Current Resources Used at a School for Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use

Resource Aid Packet
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Frameworks for Systemic Transformation of Student and Learning Supports

Continuing Education Module
• Developing Resource-Oriented Mechanisms to Enhance Learning Supports

Center Report
• Organization Facilitators: A Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes
• Resource-Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports

Guides to Practice
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide

Newsletter
• Addressing Barriers to Learning & Promoting Healthy Development: A Usable Research-Base (Fall, '00)
• Comprehensive & Multifaceted Guidelines for Mental Health in Schools. (Fall, '01)
• Mechanisms for Delivering Mental Health in School. (Winter, '01)
• Who at the School Addresses Barriers to Learning and Teaching? (Spring '05)

Articles
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning.
• Connecting Schools, Families and Communities.
• Establishing school-based collaborative teams to coordinate resources: A case study.
• Impediments to Enhancing Availability of Mental Health Services in Schools: Fragmentation, Overspecialization, Counterproductive Competition, and Marginalization.
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems
• Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model.

Quick Finds
• After-School Programs
• Business Support for Schools
• Collaboration- School, Community, Interagency
• Community Outreach for Involvement and Support

• A Case Study Evaluation of Resource Mapping
• Adding It Up: A Guide for Mapping Public Resources for Children, Youth and Families
• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
• Asset Based Community Development
• Asset Mapping: A Powerful Tool for Communities
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action
• Censusscope
• Community Youth Mapping
• Community Resource Mapping Project: Youth as Mappers
• Kidsdata research and links
• Mapping Community Innovation: Using Social Network Analysis to Map the Interactional Field, Identify Facilitators, and Foster Community Development
• Mapping Opportunities for Alignment
• Mapping the Social World of Classrooms: A Multi-Level, Multi-Reporter Approach to Social Processes and Behavioral Engagement
• Mapping Your School's Resources
• Relationship Mapping Strategy
• Resource Mapping: A Toolkit for Education Communities
• Resource Mapping: Tennessee case study of resources for children and youth
• Social Media Mapping Innovations for Crisis Prevention, Response, and Evaluation
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 2011

• Crossing Borders: Geography, GIS and Mental Health
• Illinois High School Dropout Rates and District Dropout Counts (mapping example)
• Mapping Youth-At-Risk: GIS and its Potential as a Service Integration Tool

• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
• Community Tool Box

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