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Download full textAnnie E. Casey Foundation, 2004
"Engaging Residents to Improve Results for Children and Youth, Families and Communities" is a "Toolkit" that is the product of an international working group composed of delegates from six participating nations--Chile, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2002, the working group set out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Youth, Neighborhoods
Armstrong, Julie; And Others – 1979
Designed to inspire parents throughout the United States to develop parent support programs, this book describes one such program which successfully operates in a community of 150,000 people. The Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP) program is designed to offer free assistance to families following the arrival of a baby. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Relations, Parent Education, Program Content
Zimmer, Amy; Mediratta, Kavitha Ed. – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2004
Spurred by the economic boom of the late 1990s and a decades-old national standards movement that increased both the transparency of assessment results and the awareness of urban public school failure, communities across the country are turning to community organizing as a strategy for improving public education. As organizations confront the…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Accountability, Community Action
Hyman, Carl S., Ed. – 1992
Guidelines and ideas for creating successful school/community projects are provided in this handbook. Organized like a cookbook, the book contains 43 chapters by individual contributors who take a community-based approach to education, in which the schools are the pivotal institutions of a community. The first section outlines the roles, or…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services
