Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships

by Chibucos, Thomas R.; Lerner, Richard M.

• ISBN13: 9780792385400
• ISBN10: 0792385403
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xiii	(10)
Foreword	xxiii	(4)
Lonnie R. Sherrod
Foreword	xxvii	(4)
James C. Votruba
Preface	xxxi	(4)
Acknowledgments	xxxv
1. Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: A View of the Issues	1	(12)
Thomas R. Chibucos
Richard M. Lerner
2. Build It and They Will Come... The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama's Children	13	(8)
Marilyn R. Bradbard
June Henton
Jacquelyn Mize
Janice Grover
Robbie Roberts
3. The Bibb County Child Caring Foundation (BCCCF): A Story That Needs to be Shared	21	(6)
Joan E. Esser-Stuart
Alesa H. Judd
Tracy M. Palmer
John R. Wheat
4. Arizona State University and the Southwest Autism Research Center: Partners in Helping Children with Autism and their Families	27	(8)
Richard A. Fabes
Carol Lynn Martin
Raun D. Melmed
Cindy K. Schneider
5. Child Care on Campus: A True Partnership Between an Academic Program and Vendor	35	(8)
Raymond K. Yang
6. Partnering with the State Legislature: Connecticut's Family Impact Seminar	43	(4)
Steven K. Wisensale
7. Northern Delaware Early Head Start: An Interagency Approach to Supporting Children and Families	47	(6)
Rena A. Hallam
Martha J. Buell
Michael Gamel-McCormick
8. Developing a Partnership Model to Enhance Literacy: Focusing on a Community's Future	53	(6)
Ann K. Mullis
9. Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership	59	(6)
Ronald L. Mullis
Alisa S. Ghazvini
10. A Partnership for Youth in Florida Cooperative Extension	65	(10)
Daniel F. Perkins
Marilyn J. Halusky
Judith R. Butterfield
Tamara B. Dinkins
11. A Success Story of a Working Consortium: Project KICK	75	(6)
Stephen Rollin
Roberta Rubin
Daniel Ward
April Brown
John Wright
Carol Painter
Ron Cameron
Stacey Scheckner
12. Mental Health Issues in Criminal Court: Collaboration Among Broward County, Florida Courts, and Nova Southeastern University	81	(8)
Lenore E. A. Walker
Ronald F. Levant
13. The Family Solutions Program: A Collaboration of the University of Georgia and the Athens/Clarke County Juvenile Court	89	(12)
William H. Quinn
14. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure	101	(4)
J. Jay Ney
15. Facilitating Peaceable Schools	105	(8)
Deborah B. Gentry
16. Certification by Learning on an Alternative Schedule (CLAS)	113	(6)
Loretta P. Prater
17. Improving Child Care Systems in Illinois and Georgia: Partnerships Between the Land-Grant Universities and State Agencies	119	(8)
Jo Cato
Deborah Wilkes
Susan Maxwell
J. Lee Kreader
Anne Wharff
Christine M. Todd
18. Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies	127	(12)
Richard Spoth
Virginia Molgaard
19. Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Degree Program in Early Childhood Studies	139	(4)
Shirley Hymon-Parker
20. Extending Head Start to Homeless Families: A University-Community Partnership	143	(6)
Sally A. Koblinsky
Elaine A. Anderson
21. The Goucher College-Choice Middle Schools Program Partnership	149	(6)
Judy Jolley Mohraz
Carol Weinberg
Leigh Curtis Higgins
22. The Benefits of a Philanthropic-University-School Community Partnership: The Cambridge "Say Yes to Education" Story	155	(8)
Tracey L. Hurd
Anne Larkin
Jose Ribeiro
23. Revitalizing the Community Through Neighborhood and Institutional Partnerships	163	(10)
Dale Lucy-Allen
Jennifer Seydel
24. Cameo Feature News: University and Community Partnership Disseminates Child Development Information	173	(8)
Nancy Martland
Fred Rothbaum
25. Developing an Extended Services School: A School-Community-University Partnership	181	(8)
Mary E. Walsh
Dita G. Andersson
Michael A. Smyer
26. 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	189	(8)
Laura Bates
Tom Luster
Donna Massie
Judith Peck Key
27. Checkpoints: Building Capacity to Enhance Program Impact Through Evaluation	197	(8)
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
L. Annette Abrams
Mary Andrews
Francisco Villarruel
Robert Brown
Celeste Sturdevant Reed
28. The Young Spartan Program: Partners with Students	205	(6)
Joanne G. Keith
Karen McKnight Casey
Charles A. Blackman
29. Fostering Community Guardianship: Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnership	211	(6)
Lorilee R. Sandmann
Lou Anna Kimsey Simon
30. Beyond Just Say No: The Michigan Abstinence Partnership	217	(8)
Shelly E. Schadewald
31. Skipped Generation Parents: Building Collaborative Partnerships to Support Custodial Grandparents	225	(6)
Andrea B. Smith
Linda L. Dannison
32. A Broad and Dynamic Partnership: Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium	231	(6)
Martha Farrell Erickson
Richard A. Weinberg
33. Building Partnerships: The University and Community Unite	237	(6)
Ann P. Blackwell
Anne M. Stanberry
34. Preparing Students for Collaboration: The MU Interprofessional Initiative	243	(6)
Tracy K. Dranginis
Kathy Thornburg
35. Research-based Parenting Education for Divorcing Parents: A University-Community Collaboration	249	(8)
Mark A. Fine
Marilyn Coleman
Sara Gable
Lawrence H. Ganong
Jean Ispa
Johnetta Morrison
Kathy R. Thornburg
36. Kids' Team: Statewide Agencies Model for Building Community Level Coalitions	257	(4)
Georgia L. Stevens
Kathleen A. Lodl
37. Field Training in Applied Developmental Psychology: Fordham University's Expanding Community Partnerships	261	(8)
Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro
Celia B. Fisher
38. Policy Seminars for State and Community Leaders	269	(6)
Charles McClintock
39. The North Carolina Child Care Corps: Building a Successful University and Community Partnership Through the AmeriCorps National Service Program	275	(8)
Deborah J. Cassidy
Alice Henderson Hall
Susan A. Hicks
40. Support Our Students: Saturday Academy at East Carolina University	283	(6)
Cynthia E. Johnson
Elizabeth A. Carroll
Jay Faron
41. The DAP*TECH Partnership: Helping Children with Disabilities Through Technology	289	(4)
Carol A. Cartwright
42. Child Care and Head Start: Community Action Commission-University Partnership	293	(10)
Thomas R. Chibucos
Karen Freeman
Sally Kilmer
A. Fredericka Larsen
Barbara O'Donnel
Don Stricker
43. The Good Neighbors Project: A Collaboration Between A Neighborhood Social Service Agency, Neighborhood Residents, and University Faculty and Students	303	(6)
Golden Jackson
Susan R. Jones
44. Rural Student Health Centers: A Community-University Partnership	309	(6)
Edward A. Smith
Daniel Bibeau
Catherine R. DeMason
Sylvia Grogan
45. Multiple Partners and Multiple Voices: The Creation of a Statewide Prenatal Care Collaboration	315	(8)
Lynne Vernon-Feagans
Robert P. Haigh
Margaret M. Petruska
46. The Healthy Neighborhood Project	323	(6)
Nancy J. Bell
Elizabeth G. Haley
Ginny Felstehausen
Charlie Adams
47. Seizing the Opportunity to Fulfill a Mission	329	(6)
Gladys J. Hildreth
Joyce Armstrong
48. Developing Effective University-Community Collaboration Through Grantwriting	335	(8)
Richard Nader
Greg Muller
Charles Johnson
Craig Blakely
49. Partnerships in Successful Parenting	343	(6)
Cathy Nathan
Quincy White
La Nelle Ethridge
50. The Teen Assessment Project Community-Based Collaborative Research	349	(6)
Kathleen Boyce Rodgers
Stephen A. Small
Afterword	355	(6)
Sidney A. Ribeau
Author/Subject Index	361