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School-Linked Services

School-linked family support services are characterized by a holistic, ecological view that recognizes that children need a full range of services to be ready to learn and be successful in school, and that parents need assistance to support their child's education, health, growth, and development.

Communities are improving service integration and accessibility by offering a wide array of services within the school or other neighborhood center. Service providers emphasize prevention of behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems, including child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, and family violence.

• Effectiveness of school-linked services

Connecting Families, Schools and Community Resources (PDF - 82 KB)
Family Strengthening Policy Center (2004)
Describes the characteristics of the school-linked services approach, explains the relevance of school-linked services to the human services field, and identifies challenges and solutions to building linkages between families, schools, and communities.

Families and Schools Together: Building Relationships
McDonald & Frey
Juvenile Justice Bulletin, November 1999
Describes a program that encourages collaboration between school professionals and parents to reduce juvenile delinquency and violence in children at risk. (PDF - 502 KB)

Kinship Care Connection: A School-Based Intervention for Kinship Caregivers and the Children in Their Care
Strozier, McGrew, Krisman, & Smith
Children and Youth Services Review, 27(9), 2005
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Highlights outcomes from an innovative school-based intervention designed to increase children's self-esteem and mediate kin caregiver burden; includes suggestions for ways social workers and the school system can better support kinship caregiving families.

Public Schools and the Revitalization of Impoverished Communities: School-Linked, Family Resource Centers
Dupper & Poertner
Social Work, 42(5), 1997
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Describes exemplary school-linked family resource center programs and provides suggestions for overcoming challenges to the creation of school-based family services.

School-Based and School-Linked Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Teens and Their Children (PDF - 131 KB)
Institute for Educational Leadership (1997)
Discussion and recommendations from a conference convened to consider how education and supportive services influence outcomes for pregnant and parenting teens and their children.

School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families: What We Know and What We Need to Know
U.S. Department of Education (1995)
Proceedings of a conference focused on the development of a research agenda to support policy decisions regarding collaborative services for families and youth; includes profiles of exemplary programs.

Strengthening Families With Young Children (PDF - 615 KB)
Aquinde, Chen, & Luu
The Source, 14(1), 2005
Highlights a program developed to increase resilience and reduce risk factors for behavioral, emotional, academic, and social problems.

	Related Information Gateway Topics Preventing child abuse & neglect: School-based prevention programs Systemwide: Education services

Updated on December 7, 2007