Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxv

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2. Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: A View of the Issues

   • Thomas R. Chibucos, Richard M. Lerner

   Pages 1-11

3. Build it and They Will Come . . . The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama’s Children

   • Marilyn R. Bradbard, June Henton, Jacquelyn Mize, Janice Grover, Robbie Roberts

   Pages 13-19

4. The Bibb County Child Caring Foundation (BCCCF): A Story that Needs to be Shared

   • Joan E. Esser-Stuart, Alesa H. Judd, Tracy M. Palmer, John R. Wheat

   Pages 21-25

5. Arizona State University and the Southwest Autism Research Center: Partners in Helping Children with Autism and their Families

   • Richard A. Fabes, Carol Lynn Martin, Raun D. Melmed, Cindy K. Schneider

   Pages 27-33

6. Child Care on Campus: A True Partnership Between an Academic Program and Vendor

   • Raymond K. Yang

   Pages 35-41

7. Partnering with the State Legislature: Connecticut’s Family Impact Seminar

   • Steven K. Wisensale

   Pages 43-46

8. Northern Delaware Early Head Start: An Interagency Approach to Supporting Children and Families

   • Rena A. Hallam, Martha J. Buell, Michael Gamel-McCormick

   Pages 47-51

9. Developing a Partnership Model to Enhance Literacy: Focusing on a Community’s Future

   • Ann K. Mullis

   Pages 53-57

10. Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership

    • Ronald L. Mullis, Alisa S. Ghazvini

    Pages 59-63

11. A Partnership for Youth in Florida Cooperative Extension

    • Daniel F. Perkins, Marilyn J. Halusky, Judith R. Butterfield, Tamara B. Dinkins

    Pages 65-74

12. A Success Story of a Working Consortium: Project Kick

    • Stephen Rollin, Roberta Rubin, Daniel Ward, April Brown, John Wright, Carol Painter et al.

    Pages 75-79

13. Mental Health Issues in Criminal Court: Collaboration among Broward County, Florida Courts, and Nova Southeastern University

    • Lenore E. A. Walker, Ronald F. Levant

    Pages 81-88

14. The Family Solutions Program: A Collaboration of the University of Georgia and the Athens/Clarke County Juvenile Court

    • William H. Quinn

    Pages 89-100

15. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

    • J. Jay Ney

    Pages 101-104

16. Facilitating Peaceable Schools

    • Deborah B. Gentry

    Pages 105-111

17. Certification by Learning on an Alternative Schedule (CLAS)

    • Loretta P. Prater

    Pages 113-117

18. Improving Child Care Systems in Illinois and Georgia: Partnerships Between the Land-Grant Universities and State Agencies

    • Jo Cato, Deborah Wilkes, Susan Maxwell, J. Lee Kreader, Anne Wharff, Christine M. Todd

    Pages 119-125

19. Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies

    • Richard Spoth, Virginia Molgaard

    Pages 127-137

20. Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Degree Program in Early Childhood Studies

    • Shirley Hymon-Parker

    Pages 139-142

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.

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• development
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• higher education
• learning
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• Bowling Green State University, USA

  Thomas R. Chibucos

• Boston College, USA

  Richard M. Lerner

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