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To help a local school and community map and analyze whether there are good infrastructure mechanisms in place to facilitate collaboration and system improvement to better address barriers to learning and teaching, the Center for Mental Health in Schools has put together this tool.
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Provides a detailed look of their current work in New York City and offers suggestions for building and sustaining partnerships, planning a community school program and funding these efforts. It also situates the community schools approach in the context of 21st century realities and provides new chapters outlining the research base that supports the CAS community school model and greater detail on available funding resources.
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This guide is designed to provide policy makers, program leaders, system-building advocates, and others with practical information on creating and maintaining public-private partnerships. It draws from the experiences and wisdom of successful partnership leaders at the national, state, and local levels to provide resources for existing and future partnerships.
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This manual is designed to assist facilitators working with members of a school community in forming or strengthening partnerships that will promote greater success for their youth. Participants can identify characteristics that are most important for youth to be successful in their community, consider ways to determine that students are developing these characteristics, identify resources and assets in the community that will help youth develop them, and plan and implement a project to promote these characteristics. Five presentation topics include: (1) "Introduction," getting acquainted, creating community networks, and introducing key points; (2) "Defining Youth Success," answering the questions "How do we define youth success?" and "What aspects of youth success are critical for us?" (3) "Measuring Youth Success," exploring ways to measure youth success; (4) "Mapping Community Assets That Support Youth Success," identifying strengths and assets within the community; and (5) "Planning the Project for Youth Success," answering the questions "What project shall we undertake to promote youth success?" and "How can we engage the community and measure the results of this project?" Students should be actively involved in the workshop in addition to adults. Scripts and overheads are included for each topic.
http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships
This document is addressed to local, state and national leaders who are developing policy options for strengthening community schools and are in a position to influence policy decisions. It is intended to serve as a template for individuals considering policy related to community schools and related aspects of the relationship between schools and communities.
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This manual provides a practical guide for improving the coordination of education, health, and human services for at-risk children and families. Divided into three main sections, the guide leads readers through a five-stage process of group collaboration. The milestones in and obstacles to the process are portrayed through vignettes and case studies that describe the personal experiences of the group members.
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