General

• Experience Corps
• How to Build Your Community Partnerships for Learning
• Increasing School Involvement of Hispanic Parents
• Involving Parents in the Education of Their Children
• Reference Checks (from Staff Screening Tool Kit, 1st edition)

Guides and Programs

• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
• Guidelines for School Officials, Volunteers, and Mentors Participating in Public School Community Partnerships
• Mentor Screening
• Mentoring Programs and Youth Development: A Synthesis
• Operation Bookworm Classroom Volunteer Program
• Parent Involvement in Elementary Language Arts: A Program Model
• Starting a Volunteer Project in your School
• Successful Strategies for recruiting, training, and utilizing volunteers: A guide for faith and community-based service providers

Mentors

• The Mentor Directory
• Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
• School-Based Mentoring: A First Look into its Potential
• School-based Mentoring: A Closer Look
• Student Mentoring Program (from the Dubuque Community School District)
• Understanding and Facilitating the Youth Mentoring Movement

Volunteers

• Do Classroom Volunteers Benefit Schools?
• Legal Issues in School Volunteer Programs (PDF Document, 366K)
• Making the Most of Volunteers
• Resources for Volunteers in K-12 Schools
• School Volunteer Policy (From the Auburndale School District)
• Screening (from No Surprises: Controlling Risks in Volunteer Programs)
• Using Volunteers in the School
• Volunteer Management Capacity in America's Charities and Congregations: A Briefing Report
• Volunteer Management Practices and Retention of Volunteers
• Volunteer Policy (Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools)
• Volunteers in Public Schools

• American Council for Drug Education (ACDE)
• America Reads: Miami Reads Tutorial Project
• The Children's Rights Project
• Curriculum Guide for Student Peer Counseling Training
• From Parent Involvement to Parent Empowerment and Family Support: A Guide for Community Leaders
• Guidelines for the Screening Persons Working with Children, the Elderly, and Individuals with Disabilities in Need of Support
• Juvenile Mentoring Program: 1998 Report to Congress
• Los Angeles Learning Centers Guidebook: Enabling
• Make a Friend- Be a Peer Mentor
• Programming the Prevention of Adolescent Program Behaviors: The Role of Autonomy, Relatedness, and Volunteer Service in the Teen Outreach Program
• School/Family/Community Partnerships: Caring for the Children We Share
• Volunteers in Public Schools
• Volunteers: Real People, Real Connections

• America's Promise- The Alliance for Youth
• American Association of Community Colleges- Service Learning
• Americorps
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• CHALK
• Children First: The Website of the National PTA
• Circle K International
• Communities In Schools
• Community Engagement and Volunteerism
• Corporation for National Service
• E-Volunteerism: the Electronic Journal of the Volunteer Community
• Horizons Service Learning Project
• LAUSD Volunteer Opportunities
• Learn and Serve America
• National Mentoring Center
• National Mentoring Partnership
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Points of Light Foundation
• Read With Me: A Guide for Student Volunteers Starting Early Childhood Literacy Programs
• Tutor/Mentor Connection
• The Virtual Volunteering Project
• Volunteer Management / Service Leadership Online Resources
• VolunteerMatch.org
• Volunteer for Our Children
• Volunteer in Public Schools

• Becoming successful readers: A volunteer tutoring program for culturally diverse students. M. Moore-Hart & S.A. Karabenick (2000). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. (New Orleans, LA, April 24-28, 2000).
• Citizens and the schools: Partners in education. American Association of School Administrators (AASA) (1984). Arlington, VA: AASA.
• "Citizen volunteers: A growing resource for teachers and students." W. Cuninggim (1980). Teaching Exceptional Children, 12, 108-112.
• "Do Classroom Volunteers Benefit Schools?" Brent, B.O. (2000). Principal, 80, 36-40.
• "Do Schools Really Need More Volunteers?" Brent, B.O. (2000) Educational Policy, 14(4): 494-513.
• "Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: A meta-analytic review." DuBois, D.L., Holloway, B.E., Valentine, J.C. & Cooper, H. (2000).  American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 157-197.
• "Effectiveness of one-year participation in school-based volunteer facilitated peer support groups." Wassef, A., Mason, G., Collins, M., Van Haalen, J., Ingham, D.  (1998).Adolescence, 33, 91-97.
• "Establishing school volunteer programs." Strom, R.,  Strom, S.,  (1999). Child and Youth Services, 20, 175-188.
• Family Strengthening: A Key to Student Success.   (1994).  C. Levine. National Center for Law and Education.
• Families, Schools, Communities: Learning Together School Volunteer Guide. C. Potter, J. Grinde, & R.A. Landsverk (2000). Madison, WI: Wisconsin State. Department of Public Instruction, Families in Education Program.
• Handbook for principals and teachers: A collaborative approach to effective involvement of business/community volunteers at the school site. J.A. Asche (1989). Alexandria, VA: National Association of Partners in Education.
• "Increase productivity with volunteers." S.T. Gray (1984). School Business Affairs, 50, 18-36.
• "Intergenerational Mentoring: Senior Volunteers in Schools." K. Stetzner (2001). School Administrator, 58, 52.
• Noble allies: Volunteers in the schools. S. Halperin & D.W. Merenda (1986). Washington, D.C.: Council for Basic Education.
• "Parent involvement in schools: A parent's view." E. Ainsworth (1977). Thrust for Educational Leadership, 6(3), 6-8.
• "People who need people -- the volunteer component." J. Rauner (1985). Momentum, 16, 35-37.
• A Practical Guide to Creating and Managing School/Community Partnerships. D.W. Merenda, R.A. Lacey, & V. Robinson (Eds.) (1986). Alexandria, VA: National Association of Partners in Education.
• Recruiting and using volunteers in meaningful ways in secondary schools. M. Burke (2001). NASSP Bulletin, 85, 46-52.
• School, Family, and Community partnerships: Your Handbook for action (2nd ed.). J.L. Epstein, M.G. Sanders, B.S. Simon, K.C. Salinas, N.R. Rodriguez, & F.L. Van Voorhis (2002). School Volunteer Management.  (1995).  By J. Whaley (Ed.).  Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
• "The Effectiveness of Adult Volunteer Tutoring on the Reading among 'At-Risk' First Grade Children." Rimm-Kaufman, S.E., Kagan, J., Byers, H.  (1999).  Reading Research and Instruction, 38, 143-152.
• The Home-School Connection : Guidelines for Working With Parents.  (1994).  By J. McGilp, & M. Michael.  Woburn, MA: Heinemann.
• "The Unintended Consequences of Volunteerism: Positive Outcomes for those who Serve." Primavera, J.    (1999). Journal of Prevention and Intervention, 18, 125-140.
• Toward Predicting Successful Youth Mentoring Relationships: A Preliminary Screening Questionnaire. Roffman, J, Reddy, R. & Rhodes, J. (2000).
• "Using Economic Theory and Research to Better Understand Volunteer Behavior" Govekar, P.L. & Goverkar, M.A. (2002).  Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 13(1): 33-48.
• "Using Senior citizen Volunteers in the Schools." J.M. Carney, J.E. Dobson, & R.L. Dobson (1987). Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 25(3), 136-143.
• Volunteers and vocational education. D.S. Katz (1984). Information Series 271, National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Columbus: Ohio State University.
• Volunteerism in education: Translating spirit into state action. N.M. Cohen (1982). Educational Horizons, 60, 101-105.
• Volunteers in Public Schools.  (1990).  By Bernard Michael (Ed.).  National Academy Press.
• Volunteerism in Special Education through industry-education cooperation. D. Clark & J. Hughes (1986). Buffalo, NY: National Academy for Industry-Education Cooperation.
• Volunteer programs for secondary schools. M.W. Lewis (1978). Palo Alto, CA: R&E Research Associates, Inc.

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