Discusses how collaboration can enhance support services provided to college students with learning disabilities. Defines collaboration and considers the context of federal law concerning disabilities, examines current practice, and outlines a vision for implementing collaborative services. Also examines advantages and disadvantages of this…

Centrality of relationships (the integration of relationship-based concepts at the program, family, and child levels) is proposed as an organizing principle for the field of early intervention with children having disabilities. The shift from developmental deficit-based models to relationship-based organizing principles requires reformulating…

Children react to divorce and custody battles with powerful emotions. Schools can mitigate classroom effects of family breakups by recognizing and responding to children's feelings and by involving both parents in a child's school life via newsletters, conferences, and progress reports. Principals should form coalitions with community groups, lure…

Case-study phase of a national study into provision of services to children with speech and language needs. Finds extensive recognition of the need for collaboration between local education authorities (LEAs) and speech and language therapy (SLT) providers, but wide variation in practices across England and Wales. At the strategic level, various…

The evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes is overwhelming. Excess rates of death, morbidity, and disability are prevalent among racial and ethnic minority elders. Effective collaboration with community organizations is a crucial component of efforts to reduce and eliminate disparities. (Contains 39 references.) (Author/JOW)

Western Michigan University' president discusses the role of the alumni association in the life of an institution and its relationship with the development office. It is suggested the association's job is to promote anything that builds and maintains alumni loyalty to an alma mater portrayed as an ever-evolving academic institution. (MSE)

Describes the organization and efforts of the Young Parent Program. This program, coordinated by a network of representatives of parent support agencies, was designed to enhance services to teenagers who are pregnant. (RJC)

Argues for finding a common ground for the aged and disabled by focusing on cross-cutting phenomena: their prevalence, the ever-changing nature of their conditions, their reactions to both the technicalization and medicalization of their care, and the full implications of the home care revolution. (Author/ABL)

When labor, management, and literacy educators collaborate to develop a learner-centered literacy program, literacy educators must be willing to learn about the work and lives of industrial workers. The Academy at Eastern Michigan University is an alternative to traditional adult basic education that engages adults in collaborative learning.…

Describes the evolution of a professional development site partnership between counselor education faculty and a combination public school-residential treatment staff in the Pacific Northwest. Discusses insight gained about the positive and negative aspects of forming a formal partnership. (JPS)

A survey of 133 Illinois direct service providers across various agencies indicated that providers are committed to serving youth with emotional/behavioral disorders locally, but perceived a lack of effort to eliminate ineffective programs and identified procedural barriers to providing comprehensive community-based services. A wide variety of…

This article addresses the need for communities to develop integrated service systems for troubled children and youth. The varieties of educational services presently offered are reviewed and found to be inadequate. An integrated service system is proposed, comprised of personal services, services for caregivers and families, educational and…

This article examines factors affecting the provision of mainstream family support services to parents with intellectual disability in Australia. Qualitative procedures resulted in identification of common issues and a conceptual matrix. The three key factors were: client characteristics, resources available, and the involvement of other agencies.…

Families and their circumstances must be seen as a part of a school's mandate to educate. Schools can secure their own futures and become a center for community activity by bringing together representatives of service agencies and becoming an umbrella location for the delivery of their services. (JOW)

Review of 155 confirmed cases of child sexual abuse in New South Wales (Australia) showed that only 56 percent received any counseling despite policy guidelines encouraging counseling. The study identified problems at all levels within the interagency environment that resulted in children not receiving needed services. Needed changes in the…