Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories (International Series in Outreach Scholarship (1))

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. However, there has been a long tradition of such `Outreach Scholarship' in America, and this focus is gaining renewed attention, at least in part, because policy makers and philanthropic organizations are pressing universities and colleges to use their learning resources in ways that more directly benefit society. Universites have listened to, and continue to heed, such appeals. __Serving Children and Families Through Community-University____Partnerships: Success Stories__ illustrates such work by presenting several dozen exemplary `success stories' of community-university partnerships that serve to enhance the lives of children, youth, and families. These illustrations are drawn from collaborations across the breadth of the nation and reflect the work of many diverse colleges and universities. Moreover, these partnerships involve an array of target audiences, ranging across the individual life span from infancy through old age and involving a diverse set of groups and organizations. In addition, this work takes many forms, for example, technical assistance, evaluation, training, program design and delivery, demonstration or participatory, action research, and dissemination. The book is useful to two broad audiences: (1) Individuals, in and out of academia, in decision-making roles that directly impact what gets done or does not get done in colleges and universities; and (2) Persons outside academia who are concerned with creating positive change across a wide-range of issues pertinent to the lives of youth, families, and communities. This volume will guide universities and communities to work together to promote positive development in the diverse children, families, and communities of our nation. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: A View of the Issues....Pages 1-11 Build it and They Will Come . . . The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama’s Children....Pages 13-19 The Bibb County Child Caring Foundation (BCCCF): A Story that Needs to be Shared....Pages 21-25 Arizona State University and the Southwest Autism Research Center: Partners in Helping Children with Autism and their Families....Pages 27-33 Child Care on Campus: A True Partnership Between an Academic Program and Vendor....Pages 35-41 Partnering with the State Legislature: Connecticut’s Family Impact Seminar....Pages 43-46 Northern Delaware Early Head Start: An Interagency Approach to Supporting Children and Families....Pages 47-51 Developing a Partnership Model to Enhance Literacy: Focusing on a Community’s Future....Pages 53-57 Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership....Pages 59-63 A Partnership for Youth in Florida Cooperative Extension....Pages 65-74 A Success Story of a Working Consortium: Project Kick....Pages 75-79 Mental Health Issues in Criminal Court: Collaboration among Broward County, Florida Courts, and Nova Southeastern University....Pages 81-88 The Family Solutions Program: A Collaboration of the University of Georgia and the Athens/Clarke County Juvenile Court....Pages 89-100 An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure....Pages 101-104 Facilitating Peaceable Schools....Pages 105-111 Certification by Learning on an Alternative Schedule (CLAS)....Pages 113-117 Improving Child Care Systems in Illinois and Georgia: Partnerships Between the Land-Grant Universities and State Agencies....Pages 119-125 Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies....Pages 127-137 Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Degree Program in Early Childhood Studies....Pages 139-142 Extending Head Start to Homeless Families: A University-Community Partnership....Pages 143-147 The Goucher College-Choice Middle Schools Program Partnership....Pages 149-154 The Benefits of a Philanthropic-University-School Community Partnership: The Cambridge “Say Yes to Education” Story....Pages 155-161 Revitalizing the Community through Neighborhood and Institutional Partnerships....Pages 163-171 CAMEO Feature News: University and Community Partnership Disseminates Child Development Information....Pages 173-180 Developing an Extended Services School: A School-Community-University Partnership....Pages 181-187 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....Pages 189-196 Checkpoints: Building Capacity to Enhance Program Impact Through Evaluation....Pages 197-203 The Young Spartan Program: Partners with Students....Pages 205-210 Fostering Community Guardianship: Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnership....Pages 211-215 Beyond Just Say No: The Michigan Abstinence Partnership....Pages 217-223 Skipped Generation Parents: Building Collaborative Partnerships to Support Custodial Grandparents....Pages 225-229 A Broad and Dynamic Partnership: Minnesota’s Children, Youth and Family Consortium....Pages 231-235 Building Partnerships: The University and Community Unite....Pages 237-241 Preparing Students for Collaboration: The MU Interprofessional Initiative....Pages 243-248 Research-Based Parenting Education for Divorcing Parents: A University-Community Collaboration....Pages 249-256 Kids’Team: Statewide Agencies Model for Building Community Level Coalitions....Pages 257-260 Field Training in Applied Developmental Psychology: Fordham University’s Expanding Community Partnerships....Pages 261-268 Policy Seminars for State and Community Leaders....Pages 269-274 The North Carolina Child Care Corps: Building a Successful University and Community Partnership Through the Americorps National ServiceProgram....Pages 275-281 Support our Students: Saturday Academy at East Carolina University....Pages 283-287 The DAP*TECH Partnership: Helping Children with Disabilities Through Technology....Pages 289-292 Child Care and Head Start: Community Action Commission-University Partnership....Pages 293-302 The Good Neighbors Project: A Collaboration Between a Neighborhood Social Service Agency, Neighborhood Residents, and University Faculty and Students....Pages 303-308 Rural Student Health Centers: A Community-University Partnership....Pages 309-314 Multiple Partners and Multiple Voices: The Creation of a Statewide Prenatal Care Collaboration....Pages 315-322 The Healthy Neighborhood Project....Pages 323-327 Seizing the Opportunity to Fulfill a Mission....Pages 329-334 Developing Effective University-Community Collaboration Through Grantwriting....Pages 335-342 Partners in Successful Parenting....Pages 343-348 The Teen Assessment Project Community-Based Collaborative Research....Pages 349-353 Back Matter....Pages 355-376 "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. However, there has been a long tradition of such ̀Outreach Scholarship' in America, and this focus is gaining renewed attention, at least in part, because policy makers and philanthropic organizations are pressing universities and colleges to use their learning resources in ways that more directly benefit society. Universites have listened to, and continue to heed, such appeals. Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories illustrates such work by presenting several dozen exemplary ̀success stories' of community-university partnerships that serve to enhance the lives of children, youth, and families. These illustrations are drawn from collaborations across the breadth of the nation and reflect the work of many diverse colleges and universities. Moreover, these partnerships involve an array of target audiences, ranging across the individual life span from infancy through old age and involving a diverse set of groups and organizations. In addition, this work takes many forms, for example, technical assistance, evaluation, training, program design and delivery, demonstration or participatory, action research, and dissemination. The book is useful to two broad audiences: (1) Individuals, in and out of academia, in decision-making roles that directly impact what gets done or does not get done in colleges and universities; and (2) Persons outside academia who are concerned with creating positive change across a wide-range of issues pertinent to the lives of youth, families, and communities. This volume will guide universities and communities to work together to promote positive development in the diverse children, families, and communities of our nation"--Font no determinada

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. However, there has been a long tradition of such 'Outreach Scholarship' in America, and this focus is gaining renewed attention, at least in part, because policy makers and philanthropic organizations are pressing universities and colleges to use their learning resources in ways that more directly benefit society. Universites have listened to, and continue to heed, such appeals.
Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories illustrates such work by presenting several dozen exemplary 'success stories' of community-university partnerships that serve to enhance the lives of children, youth, and families. These illustrations are drawn from collaborations across the breadth of the nation and reflect the work of many diverse colleges and universities. Moreover, these partnerships involve an array of target audiences, ranging across the individual life span from infancy through old age and involving a diverse set of groups and organizations. In addition, this work takes many forms, for example, technical assistance, evaluation, training, program design and delivery, demonstration or participatory, action research, and dissemination.
The book is useful to two broad audiences: (1) Individuals, in and out of academia, in decision-making roles that directly impact what gets done or does not get done in colleges and universities; and (2) Persons outside academia who are concerned with creating positive change across a wide-range of issues pertinent to the lives of youth, families, and communities. This volume will guide universities and communities to work together to promote positive development in the diverse children, families, and communities of our nation.

"Serving Children and Families through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories illustrates several dozen exemplary "success stories" of community-university partnerships that serve to enhance the lives of children, youth, and families. These illustrations are drawn from collaborations across the breadth of the nation and reflect the work of many diverse colleges and universities. Moreover, these partnerships involve an array of target audiences, ranging across the individual life span from infancy through old age and involving a diverse set of groups and organizations. In addition, this work takes many forms, for example, technical assistance, evaluation, training, program design and delivery, demonstration or participatory, action research, and dissemination." "The book is useful to two broad audiences: 1) Individuals, in and out of academe, in decision-making roles that directly impact what gets done or does not get done in colleges and universities, and 2) Persons outside academe who are concerned with creating positive change across a wide-range of issues pertinent to the lives of youth, families, and communities."--BOOK JACKET