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Sekhar, Deepa L.; Schaefer, Eric W.; Hoke, Alicia M.; Rosen, Perri; Chuzie, Roberta A.; Milakovic, Dana M. – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: The Student Assistance Program (SAP) is mandated kindergarten to 12th grade in Pennsylvania schools to address barriers to student academic success. Following student referral, SAP teams use a systematic process to inform recommendations for school or community-based services. To evaluate program outcomes, a review of student SAP…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Networks, Community Services
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McShane, Michael Q. – Education Next, 2019
Communities in Schools is one of the nation's oldest and largest providers of integrated student supports, also known as "wraparound services." Started in New York City in the 1970s, the agency now works with more than 2,300 schools in 25 states and the District of Columbia. The model is straightforward: Communities in Schools recruits,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Improvement, Achievement Gains, Charter Schools
Haskitz, Alan – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
The Make a Difference model transforms community service from free labor and low-level tasks to efforts yielding genuine community improvement and enhanced academic performance. Students study the organization they work for and/or the chosen problem. California middle-school students conducted interviews, located primary sources, and created a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Harrington-Lueker, Donna – American School Board Journal, 1990
Schools are experimenting with community service programs. Among these are service-based intervention programs for at-risk children and K-12 curricula of community service. Cites examples, the characteristics of effective programs, and proposed federal legislation. (MLF)
Descriptors: Community Services, Curriculum Development, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education
Aronson, Stacy R.; Mutchler, Sue E.; Pan, Diane T. – 1998
Human-service experts have addressed the complex social-service needs of children and families by creating increasingly diverse community-based programs. To assist human-service-program professionals in their efforts, this report explores some new tools for program planning and evaluation that combine results-based accountability systems and a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
Northwest Education, 1998
School-community collaborations are partnerships that can take different forms and serve many purposes. An overview of some partnership models is provided in this text. It shows how schools can play a central role in the revitalization of a community by serving as community centers and by fostering school-based enterprises. Ways in which students…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Moscoso, Eunice – Hispanic, 1995
Profiles four youth programs. The Southwest Key Program (Texas, Arizona, Puerto Rico) offers community alternatives to institutionalization for delinquent minority youth. New Directions holistically restructures the lives of Chicago gang members. The Bruce Guadalupe Community School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is bilingual and mandates parental…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Community Services, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Educational Innovation
Fertman, Carl I.; And Others – 1993
Under Subtitle B Part I, Serve-America, of the National and Community Service Act of 1990, $1.1 million was awarded to fund 44 school-based service-learning programs in Pennsylvania. A study collected data on program implementation and impact on students, Serve-America coordinators, and supervisors during visits to 43 sites and at meetings with…
Descriptors: Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Izu, Jo Ann; Carreon, Tori – 1994
This report presents the results of Phase I of an evaluation of the Murphy School District (MSD)-Department of Economic Security (DES) collaborative effort, one of the first interagency partnerships in the state of Arizona that attempts to address the needs of students and their families more effectively. The primary purposes of the evaluation are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Dryfoos, Joy G. – 1995
"Full-service schools" present opportunities for communities to construct solutions at the local level that unite people and resources in times of stress. Among these schools are school-based health centers, youth-service centers, family-resource centers, Beacons/lighted schoolhouses, and community schools. They share the provision of community…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Services
New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review, Albany. – 1988
New York's Special Delinquency Prevention Program (SDPP) was started in 1978 to provide preventive services to youth who most likely might become involved in the juvenile, social services, or mental health systems. In 1987, this program funded 542 community youth programs at a cost of $14 million. This audit assesses the Division for Youth's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delinquency Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management
Making Afterschool Count, 1999
This document consists of the three 1999 issues of a journal highlighting the Making After-School Count Initiative, programs across the country wherein communities and schools cooperate to serve children during after-school hours. The February 1999 issue describes grassroots efforts by California parents and religious leaders to secure funding for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, At Risk Persons, Community Involvement
Nettles, Saundra Murray; Greenberg, Brenda – 1990
This review examines literature on the community's role in the achievement and psychosocial outcomes of disadvantaged students. It identifies three classes of factors as pertinent: community structure, community climate, and community involvement. Community characteristics were found to have only a weak effect on achievement at the individual…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blacks, Case Studies, Community Characteristics
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. School of Education. – 1996
Service learning links community service and volunteerism with academic learning. It is a collaborative effort that brings schools, community-based organizations, parents, and other community members together in a common enterprise of individual and community growth. Service learning is based on a number of existing links between schools and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Citizenship Education, Community Organizations, Community Services
Parsons, Tom – 1986
This report summarizes the Humboldt State University (California) Center for Community Development's activities for fiscal year 1985-86. A chronological compilation of 33 selected projects that have yielded durable or permanent functional and organizational consequences is provided, giving the year of initiation (between 1967 and 1985), the name…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indian Literature
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