Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships

Success Stories

AvThomas R. Chibucos,Richard M. Lerner

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

A consistently identified criticism about contemporary higher education is that academia is not playing a visible role in contributing to the improvement of the lives of people in the community - as the lives are lived on a day-to-day basis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-12
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:628 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Series in Outreach Scholarship
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781461372974

Utforska kategorier

Psykiatri inom Medicin
Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

1. Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: A View of the Issues.- 2. Build It and They Will Come... The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama’s Children.- 3. The Bibb County Child Caring Foundation (BCCCF): A Story That Needs to be Shared.- 4. Arizona State University and the Southwest Autism Research Center: Partners in Helping Children with Autism and their Families.- 5. Child Care on Campus: A True Partnership Between an Academic Program and Vendor.- 6. Partnering with the State Legislature: Connecticut’s Family Impact Seminar.- 7. Northern Delaware Early Head Start: An Interagency Approach to Supporting Children and Families.- 8. Developing a Partnership Model to Enhance Literacy: Focusing on a Community’s Future.- 9. Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership.- 10. A Partnership for Youth in Florida Cooperative Extension.- 11. A Success Story of a Working Consortium: Project KICK.- 12. Mental Health Issues in Criminal Court: Collaboration Among Broward County, Florida Courts, and Nova Southeastern University.- 13. The Family Solutions Program: A Collaboration of the University of Georgia and the Athens/Clarke County Juvenile Court.- 14. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.- 15. Facilitating Peaceable Schools.- 16. Certification by Learning on an Alternative Schedule (CLAS).- 17. Improving Child Care Systems in Illinois and Georgia: Partnerships Between the Land-Grant Universities and State Agencies.- 18. Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies.- 19. Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Degree Program in Early Childhood Studies.- 20. Extending Head Start to HomelessFamilies: A University-Community Partnership.- 21. The Goucher College-Choice Middle Schools Program Partnership.- 22. The Benefits of a Philanthropic-University-School Community Partnership: The Cambridge “Say Yes to Education” Story.- 23. Revitalizing the Community Through Neighborhood and Institutional Partnerships.- 24. Cameo Feature News: University and Community Partnership Disseminates Child Development Information.- 25. Developing an Extended Services School: A School-Community-University Partnership.- 26. Family T.I.E.S. Family Support Program for Adolescent Mothers and Their Children: A Collaboration Between Mott Children’s Health Center and Michigan State University.- 27. Checkpoints: Building Capacity to Enhance Program Impact Through Evaluation.- 28. The Young Spartan Program: Partners with Students.- 29. Fostering Community Guardianship: Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnership.- 30. Beyond Just Say No: The Michigan Abstinence Partnership.- 31. Skipped Generation Parents: Building Collaborative Partnerships to Support Custodial Grandparents.- 32. A Broad and Dynamic Partnership: Minnesota’s Children, Youth and Family Consortium.- 33. Building Partnerships: The University and Community Unite.- 34. Preparing Students for Collaboration: The MU Interprofessional Initiative.- 35. Research-based Parenting Education for Divorcing Parents: A University-Community Collaboration.- 36. Kids’ Team: Statewide Agencies Model for Building Community Level Coalitions.- 37. Field Training in Applied Developmental Psychology: Fordham University’s Expanding Community Partnerships.- 38. Policy Seminars for State and Community Leaders.- 39. The North Carolina Child Care Corps: Building a Successful University and Community PartnershipThrough the AmeriCorps National Service Program.- 40. Support Our Students: Saturday Academy at East Carolina University.- 41. The DAP*TECH Partnership: Helping Children with Disabilities Through Technology.- 42. Child Care and Head Start: Community Action Commission-University Partnership.- 43. The Good Neighbors Project: A Collaboration Between A Neighborhood Social Service Agency, Neighborhood Residents, and University Faculty and Students.- 44. Rural Student Health Centers: A Community-University Partnership.- 45. Multiple Partners and Multiple Voices: The Creation of a Statewide Prenatal Care Collaboration.- 46. The Healthy Neighborhood Project.- 47. Seizing the Opportunity to Fulfill a Mission.- 48. Developing Effective University-Community Collaboration Through Grantwriting.- 49. Partnerships in Successful Parenting.- 50. The Teen Assessment Project Community-Based Collaborative Research.- Afterword.- Sidney A. Ribeau.- Author/Subject Index.