Describes a South Carolina middle school's wellness program initiated by a home economics teacher. She performed a schoolwide assessment, examined research on risky behaviors, and involved community health and recreation service providers. A research-based program in Newport, Maine, also achieved results. A sidebar summarizes program building…

The Appalachian Geriatric Education Center Consortium is a partnership between area health education centers and geriatric education centers that ensures a stronger resource base from which to offer high-quality continuing education. Both types of centers must collaborate to train new health professionals as well as update current health providers…

Alliances for academic home care offer a new approach to advance the knowledge base related to home care, to improve quality and cost effectiveness of home care services, to prepare the next generation of providers to manage and deliver care in a restructured practice paradigm, and to influence health and social policy. (JOW)

Identifies keys to a successful collaborative effort aimed at introducing and attracting children to science and scientific careers at the Cleveland (Ohio) School District. Success hinged on management flexibility in meeting changing demands on members, provision of access to community resources, principal and teacher participation, and monitoring…

With examples from Denmark, this article indicates how and why career development services are linked in partnerships at different levels. Discusses the rationale for creating better linkages among counseling services, particularly, to avoid overlapping of career development and counseling interventions, create clarity, and improve referral of…

Evaluated how British health and local authorities integrated mental health services into general health and social services. Stakeholder interviews and surveys showed that the recurrent theme of culture meant different things to different people. Shared culture was widely believed to lead to seamless service and collaboration, but low staff…

Developed and tested key indicators for collaboration between health and social services in mental health. Surveys of stakeholders indicated that collaboration was most effective when there was an agreed-upon strategy. Barriers to collaboration included differences in funding, accountability, governmental guidance, and the status and control of…

Examined how five South African interprofessional partnerships involved local communities and voluntary agencies in long-term health care planning and delivery, highlighting barriers to participation, comparing the views of four stakeholder groups, noting the costs and benefits of participation, and evaluating satisfaction, ownership,…

"Better inter-agency working" has been the oft-quoted remedy to many reviews of services to support vulnerable children and young people, and yet outside the realms of tightly focused specialist teams it seems to be very difficult to achieve. Georgina Glenny here reviews three case studies of interdisciplinary and inter-agency working to examine…

This newsletter issue asserts that sound, effective relationships in which diverse groups of people and organizations work together toward a common goal are the basis of the collaborative efforts in education that can accomplish change. The first article, "Partners: Forging Strong Relationships" (Sarah E. Torian), briefly describes the…

Collaboration and coordination among providers of social and health services have long been prescribed for remedying fragmented service systems and achieving integrated services. Yet ambitious efforts to achieve these goals have often been disappointing. This three-year study examined the Family and Community Partnership (FCP) in Palm Beach…

Throughout the end of the 1990s and the early years of the current decade, states experienced severe downturns in their economies. As has happened during other recessions, higher education, often viewed as discretionary spending compared to other budget demands, was hit particularly hard. During these years of severe fiscal constraints, however, a…

The Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology's 2008-11 business plan identifies how it plans to work over the next three years to enhance advanced learning opportunities and innovation for all Albertans. Alberta's advanced learning system is composed of public board-governed institutions, the apprenticeship and industry training system,…

With all the new advances in library technology--including metadata, social networking, and Web 2.0, along with the advent of nonlibrary and for-profit digital information companies like Wikisource and Google Print--librarians have barely had time to reflect on the nontechnical implications of these innovations. They need to take a step back and…

In 2005-2006, students with disabilities comprised 9 percent of the student population in the United States, and English language learners comprised about 10 percent. Many of these students spend a majority of their time in the general classroom setting in elementary and secondary schools. Most teachers are initially trained through teacher…