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Download full textWaddell, Bruce; Shannon, Michael; Durr, Rhea – 2001
One requirement of The California Children and Families First Act (Proposition 10) is "to facilitate the creation and implementation of an integrated, comprehensive, and collaborative system of information and services to enhance optimal early childhood development." This report provides policymakers and others with working information…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Family Needs, Family Programs, Financial Support
Peer reviewedMiller, Darcy – Preventing School Failure, 1997
Discusses development of community mentoring structures to increase the educational and vocational success of students. Explains the three essential features of successful mentoring: (1) comprehensive, ongoing representation; (2) training; and (3) coordinated service provision. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Services, Mentors, Program Development
Hoover, Susan; Achilles, Charles M. – 1996
This handbook offers step-by-step guidelines for practitioners and community leaders who desire to upgrade the human services available to students and their families. Specifically, the book offers strategies for developing school and community collaboration to improve the benefits provided to students in a school district. The book describes the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
WIA Youth Policy Councils: Key to the Future for a Generation of Challenge. Policy Issues Monograph.
Callahan, Jim; Pines, Marion – 1999
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 mandates the creation of youth councils to bring together the major resource and delivery systems that have youth as a major "customer." These systems include the following sectors: education; public housing; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families agencies; WIA partners; the justice system; and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, At Risk Persons
