Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories

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