Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories - International Series in Outreach Scholarship 1999 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: List of Contributors. Foreword; L. R. Sherrod. Foreword; J. C. Votruba. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: A View of the Issues; T. R. Chibucos, R. M. Lerner. 2. Build It and They Will come ... The Birmingham Early Learning Center: Creating a Vision for the Future of Alabama's Children; M. R. Bradbard, et al. 3. The Bibb County Child Caring Foundation (BCCCF): A Story That Needs to be Shared; J. E. Esser-Stuart, et al. 4. Arizona State University and the Southwest Autism Research Center: Partners in Helping Children with Autism and their Families; R. A. Fabes, et al. 5. Child Care on Campus: A True Partnership Between an Academic Program and Vendor; R. K. Yang. 6. Partnering with the State Legislature: Connecticut's Family Impact Seminar; S. K. Wisensale. 7. Northern Delaware Early Head Start: An Interagency Approach to Supporting Children and Families; R. A. Hallam, et al. 8. Developing a Partnership Model to Enhance Literacy: Focusing on a Community's Future; A. K. Mullis. 9. Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership; R. L. Mullis, A. S. Ghazvini. 10. A Partnership for Youth in Florida Cooperative Extension; D. F. Perkins, et al. 11. A Success Story of a Working Consortium: Project KICK; S. Rollin, et al. 12. Mental Health Issues in Criminal Court: Collaboration Among Broward County, Florida Courts, and Nova Southeastern University; L. E. A. Walker, R. F. Levant. 13. The Family Solutions Program: A Collaboration of the University of Georgia and the Athens/Clarke County Juvenile Court; W. H. Quinn. 14. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure; J. J. Ney. 15. Facilitating Peaceable Schools; D. B. Gentry. 16. Certification by Learning on an Alternative Schedule (CLAS); L. P. Prater. 17. Improving Child Care Systems in Illinois and Georgia: Partnerships Between the Land-Grant Universities and State Agencies; J. Cato, et al. 18. Project Family: A Partnership Integrating Research with the Practice of Promoting Family and Youth Competencies; R. Spoth, V. Molgaard. 19. Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Degree Program in Early Childhood Studies; S. Hymon-Parker. 20. Extending Head Start to Homeless Families: A University-Community Partnership; S. A. Koblinsky, E. A. Anderson. 21. The Goucher College-Choice Middle Schools Program Partnership; J. J. Mohraz, et al. 22. The Benefits of a Philanthropic-University-School Community Partnership: The Cambridge Say Yes to Education' Story; T. L. Hurd, et al. 23. Revitalizing the Community Through Neighborhood and Institutional Partnerships; D. Lucy-Allen, J. Seydel. 24. Cameo Feature News: University and Community Partnership Disseminates Child Development Information; N. Martland, F. Rothbaum. 25. Developing an Extended Services School: A School-Community-University Partnership; M. E. Walsh, et al. 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; L. Bates, et al. 27. Checkpoints: Building Capacity to Enhance Program Impact Through Evaluation; H. E. FitzgerPublisher Marketing: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Chibucos, Thomas R Thomas R. Chibucos received a Ph. D. in Developmental Psychology from Michigan State University in 1974. He is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, where he also served as Director of the School of Family and Consumer Sciences for a decade. Previously, he taught at Northern Illinois University in the Department of Human and Family Resources for 17 years. At both Bowling Green and Northern Illinois, Dr. Chibucos developed and taught courses on child abuse and neglect, child and family policy, research methodology, and theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is an active member of numerous professional organizations (serving, for instance, as chair of the NCFR Public Policy Committee), and his publications include Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships (Kluwer, 1999), which he co-edited with Richard M. Lerner. Contributor Bio:  Lerner, Richard M Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Applied Developmental Science Institute in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, Lerner received a Ph. D. in 1971 from the City University of New York. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, and American Psychological Society. Prior to joining Tufts University, he held administrative posts at Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Boston College, where he was the Anita L. Brennan Professor of Education and the Director of the Center for Child, Family, and Community Partnerships. In 1994-95, he held the Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair in the Human Sciences at Florida State University. He is author or editor of 55 books and more than 360 scholarly articles and chapters. He edited Volume 1 ("Theoretical Models of Human Development") for the fifth edition of the "Handbook of Child Psychology". He is the founding editor of the "Journal of Research on Adolescence" and "Applied Developmental Science". He is known for his theory of, and research about, relations between life-span human development and contextual or ecological change. Lerner has done foundational studies of adolescents' relations with their peer, family, school, and community contexts and is a leader in the study of public policies and community-based programs aimed at the promotion of positive youth development. With Sage, he authored "America's Youth in Crisis: Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies" (1995), co-edited the four-volume "Handbook of Applied Developmental Science", and is co-editing the two-volume "Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science".