TOPIC: Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency; community schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Chapter in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System

• Community Outreach and Collaborative Engagement
  

Self-study Survey

• Community Outreach and Collaborative Engagement
  

Guides to Policy & Program Development and Practice

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools.
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide
• Sustaining School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit

Hot Issue


• Moving Beyond the Concept of Integrated Student Supports

Center Report

• Evolving Community Schools and Transforming Student/Learning Supports
• Enhancing School-Community Infrastructure and Weaving School-Community Resources Together
• Improving How Schools Address Barriers to Learning & Teaching: Escaping Old Ideas and Moving Beyond Current Trends
• Understanding Community Schools as Collaboratives for System Building to Address Barriers and Promote Well-Being
• Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation
• Matching Students and Instruction: The Dilemma of Grouping Students

Introductory Packets

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Working Collaboratively: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School-Community Connections
• Confidentiality and Informed Consent
• Service-learning and Community Service Clubs in Schools
• Service Learning in Schools

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
• Examples of MTSS in Practice
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days 
• Working Relationships 
• Online and At School: Teachers Alone Can’t and Shouldn’t Be Expected to Address the Wide Range of Student Mental Health Concerns

Policy Notes

• Integrated Student Supports and Equity: What’s Not Being Discussed?

Practice Notes & Information Resources

• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Interventions and Working with Schools
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Peer Tutoring: Part of Learning Supports
• The MTSS Continuum: Essential but Not Comprehensive Enough – How to make it Better
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use

Newsletters

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

Training Tutorials

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

Articles

• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning.
• Beyond Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment : The Concept of Least Intervention Needed and the Need for Continuum of Community-school Programs/Services
• Connecting Schools, Families and Communities.
• Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs.
• A Policy and Practice Framework to Guide School-Community Connections.
• Restructuring Education Support Services and Integrating Community Resources: Beyond the Full Service School Model.
• School-Community Relations: Policy and Practice.
• School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment.
• System Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Beyond School-Linked Services and Full Service Schools.
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?

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