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Pollard, Joyce S. – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1990
If schools are to play the role of integrators of human services, state and local policymakers must create a favorable policy context in which schools may operate. Six critical policy issues are discussed: ensuring comprehensive service delivery to children and families; developing alternative funding strategies; ensuring family support; ensuring…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Pollard, Joyce S. – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1990
The role of state and local policymakers in creating an environment conducive to cooperation between schools and human services agencies is discussed in this educational policy bulletin. To ensure effective service delivery programs and enabling policies, policymakers must consider: (1) the qualities of collaborative service delivery programs,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Pollard, Joyce S. – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1990
The expanded role of schools in integrating various service providers to address the needs of at-risk students and their families is discussed in this educational policy bulletin. The debate about the extent and means of the broadening school scope is reviewed and the types of school-linked service delivery programs are outlined. Characteristics…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Hobbs, Beverly B. – 1994
A multiple-case study examined how schools and community human-services agencies collaborate to meet the needs of at-risk youth in two rural Oregon counties. Four youth services teams (YST) were composed of approximately 10 members each, representing local public schools, county social and health services agencies, and local law enforcement units.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Izu, Jo Ann; Carreon, Tori – 1994
This report presents the results of Phase I of an evaluation of the Murphy School District (MSD)-Department of Economic Security (DES) collaborative effort, one of the first interagency partnerships in the state of Arizona that attempts to address the needs of students and their families more effectively. The primary purposes of the evaluation are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. – 1994
This document consists of papers that received recognition in a competition sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the National Rural Institute on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The competition sought to focus attention on problems in providing treatment and prevention services for drug and alcohol problems in rural areas. The papers…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Community Services, Correctional Education, Delivery Systems
National Univ. of Lujan (Argentina). Dept. of Education. – 1990
A university social service (USS) experiment in literacy training and adult education was carried out during the 1986 academic year at the National University of Lujan, Argentina. A literacy and post-literacy training program was devised for a district on the outskirts of Lujan, in which students in the second year of the education science course…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, College Students