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Johnson, Royel M.; Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
Foster youth are among some of the nation's most underserved students in higher education. Of the more than 430,000 youth in the foster care system, only about 50% will graduate from high school and as little as 3% will ever earn a bachelor's degree (Pecora, 2012; Wolanin, 2005). While critically important for smoothing students' transition from…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth Programs, Outreach Programs, At Risk Persons
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Wright, Catherine; Keel, Melanie; Fleurizard, Tyrone – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2017
An important future direction for service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) is to collaborate with the sustainability in higher education (SHE) movement. SHE is a diverse, transdisciplinary area of inquiry and practice that seeks to help lead efforts to create a "thriving, equitable and ecologically healthy world." When SLCE…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Service Learning, Outreach Programs
Guthrie, Larry F. – School Administrator, 1996
A major reason for scaling up school-community collaborations is to provide greater equity across community lines and offer similarly coordinated services to all children and families. Capacity must be built through eliciting commitment from key constituents. Expanding school-linked services is as complex as major educational reforms, since it…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Services
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
Dryfoos, Joy G. – 1995
"Full-service schools" present opportunities for communities to construct solutions at the local level that unite people and resources in times of stress. Among these schools are school-based health centers, youth-service centers, family-resource centers, Beacons/lighted schoolhouses, and community schools. They share the provision of community…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Services
Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Bureau of Primary Health Care. – 1996
By working together, pooling resources and energy, both health centers and schools can do more to help children to be ready to learn and to reach their full potential as citizens. This book focuses on establishing links between schools serving low-income children and community or migrant health centers. The book is organized into three chapters…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services