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

Abstract

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