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Corrin, William; Parise, Leigh M.; Cerna, Oscar; Haider, Zeest; Somers, Marie-Andrée – MDRC, 2015
Too many students drop out and never earn their high school diploma. For students at risk of dropping out, academic, social, and other supports may help. "Communities In Schools" seeks to organize and provide these supports to at-risk students in the nation's poorest-performing schools, including through "case-managed"…
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, At Risk Students, High School Students, Potential Dropouts
Marbley, Aretha Faye – Multicultural Education, 2007
Throughout the country and especially in Texas, local communities opened their arms to hurricane Katrina evacuees. Like the federal government, emergency health and mental health entities were unprepared for the massive numbers of people needing assistance. Mental health professionals, though armed with a wealth of crisis intervention information,…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Mental Health Workers, Mental Health Programs, Community Coordination
REYNOLDS, JAMES W. – 1959
A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM ACTIVITIES OF JUNIOR COLLEGES WAS DEVELOPED, AND THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH COMMUNITY PROGRAMS WERE INVESTIGATED. THE STUDY WAS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS--(1) OF WHAT DOES A COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM CONSIST, (2) HOW COMPREHENSIVE…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Coordination, Community Planning, Community Services
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Smith, Larry; Longnion, Lloyd – Community Education Journal, 1974
Describes the cooperative community education program begun by three Galveston County public school districts and the local community college. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Coordination, Community Education
Borja, Rhea R. – Education Week, 2005
Five days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, a convoy of 142 air-conditioned school buses from the 209,000-student Texas district rumbled to life. Loaded with food and bottled water, staffed by 350 school employees, and accompanied by bus-repair trucks and a phalanx of school police cars, the yellow buses traveled all night to reach the…
Descriptors: Employees, Bus Transportation, Natural Disasters, Weather
Holtzman, Wayne H., Ed. – 1993
The purpose of the conference reported in this document was to share recent information about the nature and effectiveness of school-linked services; policy options for implementing neighborhood projects involving elementary and middle schools and their surrounding communities in Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio; and future prospects for…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Child Development, Community Coordination, Community Services