Defines community-based programing as a cooperative process in which the community college serves as leader and catalyst in effecting collaboration among community members, leaders, and groups. Recommends 15 tasks for community college leaders involved in community-based programing, including environmental scanning and coalition building. (DMM)

This discussion of the role of interagency collaboration in implementation of Part H of Public Law 99-457 focuses on interagency collaboration as a foundation for early intervention services; critical points in establishing a collaborative foundation; cornerstones for building lasting interagency systems; and realities that affect collaboration.…

Site visits to three demonstration projects for high-risk Hispanic youth examined factors affecting collaboration between substance abuse prevention agencies and Hispanic natural support systems (NSS). A developmental framework outlines four phases in collaboration: assessing NSS, identifying and mapping NSS, relationship building, and…

Communication is the key to success and a stumbling block to pursuit of information-literate population. Many library media specialists and teachers withdraw from larger professional concerns and concentrate on resolving locally pressing problems. Societal factors also hinder the integration of library skills into the curriculum. Politics and…

In Washoe County, Nevada, public and private social service organizations, the public schools, and the business community joined together in a partnership. The Children's Cabinet has proved to be an innovative and successful model for coordinating government services and community resources for children. (MLF)

Community collaboration is necessary to improve support for at-risk students. Collaboration lets schools work with community agencies using a comprehensive team approach, eliminating duplicate and disjointed services, and providing better assistance. One successful midwestern collaborative pilot program at an inner-city school is described. (SM)

Assessments of family needs made by interagency early intervention teams and individual professionals were compared to assessments of their own needs made by mothers of young children with disabilities. Individual professionals matched only 47% of mothers' responses, while team assessments matched 57% of mothers' responses. (Author/JDD)

In trying to insulate school boards from city politics and political parties, early reformers severed board connections with other service providers. Today, worsening conditions for children and their families require "undoing" these reforms and transforming the board's role. Playing a smaller role in some executive, judicial, and…

Reviews two major themes dominating this yearbook: the value of school-linked, integrated services and the prospects for producing a new generation of university-trained professionals to work effectively in these better-integrated systems. The real challenge is transforming educational politics and reallocating existing (overlapping) funds.…

Explores neighborhood-based, interagency collaboration, using qualitative research methodology. Interagency participants believed that neighborhood-based collaboration provided treatment at the core of student struggles, shared responsibility among service providers for student problems, increased accessibility of services, and personalized…

Prepares the way for an institutional analysis of strategic interventions for collaboration, drawing on recent research by Crowson, Boyd, and other organizational theorists. Using a framework of institutional propositions, analyzes strategic efforts to promote collaborative efforts to enhance students' life chances in a Canadian high school, as…

Describes a school-based interprofessional case management model for children at risk for school failure that has been field tested in elementary and secondary schools. The model has three components: the case manager, the school-based interprofessional management team, and the comprehensive service network. The model has been used as a framework…

Discusses the needs of incarcerated mothers for child welfare services. Explores why working with women in jail and their children is within the scope of the child welfare system's mandate. Describes pressures on criminal justice and child welfare systems that prevent either from working effectively with these families; suggests a collaborative…

Full-service community schools combine three concepts--mind, body, and building--into an integrated approach placing quality education and comprehensive support services at one site. The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund is helping schools and communities replicate 4 such programs at 60 sites in 20 U.S. cities. (MLH)

This article describes activities to improve the access to cross-agency information systems, including identifying outcome goals and objectives, the populations of concern, needed sources of information, data collection methods, and data utilization. Benefits of establishing cross-agency agreements, common cross-agency definitions, and procedures…