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

Practice Notes

• 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

• Adelman, H. & Taylor, L. (2006). Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems The School Services Sourcebook: A Guide for Social Workers, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals, Oxford University Press
• 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.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Connecting Schools, Families and Communities. Professional School Counseling, 3(5), 298-307.
• 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.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997). Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model. School Psychology Review, 25,431-445

Quick Finds

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

• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
• Aligning School & Community Resources
• Asset Based Community Development
• Asset Mapping and Community Development Planning with GIS: A Look at the Heart of West Michigan United Way’s Innovative Approach
• Asset Mapping: A Powerful Tool for Communities
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
• Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action
• Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets
• Censusscope
• Community Assessment
• Community Based Development and Local Schools: A Promising Partnership
• Community Capacity Building & Asset Mapping© Philosophy
• Community Resource Mapping Inventory
• Community YouthMapping
• Conducting a Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• Essential tools: Community resource mapping
• Family Asset Mapping
• A Guide to Capacity Inventories: Mobilizing the Community Skills of Local Residents
• A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data
• Healthy Start Field Office Downloadable Documents - Component Survey
• Kidsdata research and links
• Mapping Community Capacity
• Mapping Your School's Resources
• Needs Assessment
• Planning Tool: School/Community Needs Assessment
• Putting the Pieces Together
• Resource Mapping: Tennessee case study of resources for children and youth
• School District Demographics System
• Tools for School-Improvement Planning
• Where can we find needs assessment surveys?
• Youth's needs and services: findings from the survey of youth in residential placement

• Community Mapping for Health Equity
• Crossing Borders: Geography, GIS and Mental Health
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Public Health
• Illinois High School Dropout Rates and District Dropout Counts (mapping example)
• Lifetimes at Risk: A GIS Supported Partnership for Adolescent Violence Reduction
• Mapping Youth-At-Risk: GIS and its Potential as a Service Integration Tool
• Using GIS to Better Serve Children
• Websites for GIS Health Data
• What is GIS?

• Maximizing Assets of Diverse Communities to Enhance Program

• Asset Based Community Development Institute
• Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
• Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family & Community Services
• Community Building Resources
• Community Tool Box
• Healthy Start Field Office

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources. By Krile, J.F. (2006). Fieldstone Alliance.
• Essential tools: Community resource mapping. Crane, K., & Mooney, M. (2005). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration, National Center on Secondary Education and Transition.
• Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement Without Asking for More. By Odden, A.R., & Archibald, S.J. (2000). Corwin Press.
• "School counselors and collaboration: finding resources through community asset mapping." By Griffin, D. & Farris, A. Professional School Counseling 13.5 (2010): 248-256.
• School Reform: Linking Public Schools with Human Services. Franklin, Cynthia., Streeter, Calvin L.. Social Work.Vol.40,No.6/November 1995

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