Offers ideas for helping at-risk students that take into account the everyday life circumstances that inadequately prepare children for academic or social opportunities. Proposes programs that engage the community and school in collaborative efforts. Describes a model program, Communities in Schools, that serves students through business, agency,…

Describes the Family Prevention Services projects operating in the largest service areas in Utah, which maintains (85 percent of) the most difficult-to-serve children and adolescents from troubled families in their homes, thus preventing out-of-home placements. A case study is presented. (Author/BB)

In New York City, the Educational Alliance, a settlement house, provides comprehensive, coordinated educational-mental health care through its special unit for young children. Services range from a day care center, a multiethnic, trilingual Head Start program, to after-school, summer school, and day camp programs. (Author/CS)

Examines Project MAIN (Mobile Assistants in Nutrition), a 12-month demonstration project and the collaborative effort of an urban university, a high school, and a senior services agency, which employed students, ages 14 to 19, to research, plan, and operate a grocery delivery and escort service for elderly and disabled citizens. (BB)

Describes a program to prevent infant abuse and neglect through the identification of infants at risk. (SB)