Community Involvement & Partnerships in Child Care and Youth Programs
Linking Home, School and Community
- Continuity in Early Childhood: A Framework for Home, School, and Community Linkages Regional Education Laboratories' Early Childhood Collaboration Network
- Family, School, and Community Involvement in School-age Child Care Programs: Best Practices Karen DeBord, Marilyn Martin, Tony Mallilo
- Intergenerational Intrigue Karen DeBord
- Public Relations and Community Involvement Cheryl Costello, Donna Jolly
- Stand Up For Children: Here's How Polly Spedding
- Transition to Kindergarten (PDF) - a fact sheet summarizing this article is also available Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
How to Build Coalitions Series:
- How to Build Coalitions: Collaboration (pdf)
- How to Build Coalitions: Turf Issues (pdf)
- How to Build Coalitions: Planning (pdf)
- How to Build Coalitions: Planning (pdf)
- How to Build Coalitions: Facilitator Role (pdf)
- How to Build Coalitions: Mobilization (pdf)
Community-Based Child Care
- Child Care: Action Manual for Communities - a guide to help communities explore current child care needs
- Community-based Child Care: An Action Manual for Communities Addressing Child Care Karen DeBord (Ed.):
- Organizing At The Community Level
- A Plan For Child Care Awareness
- Designing And Developing A Resource/Referral System
- Establishing A Child Care Resource/Referral Location
- Designing A Reporting System
- Comprehensive Community-Based Child Care: Developing a Plan
- Comprehensive Community-Based Child Care: Is Your Community Ready?
Rural Child Care
- Farm Safety for Young Children - L. Graham, L. Miller & C. Schwab
- Employer Options Series - J. G. Beierlein, J. E. Van Horn
- The Iowa Family Child Care Handbook - an exhaustive guide for family child care providers
- Stress at Home - Kids at School - recognizing and alleviating children's stress caused by financial difficulties (for example, the farm crisis) Donna Donald & Chris Nelson
Outside links related to rural issues:
- Migrant Head Start Quality Improvement Centers
- North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks - a resource for parent to help match children's abilities with agricultural job requirements
- North Central Regional Center for Rural Development - located at Iowa State University
- Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development - located at Penn State University
- Office of Migrant Education
- Rural Information Center (RIC) - provides information and referral services to those working with and for rural communities, groups and individuals.
- Rural Information Center Health Services (RICHS) - collects and disseminates information on rural health issues.
- Southern Rural Development Center - supported by Mississippi State University and Alcorn State University
- Western Rural Development Center - located at Oregon State University
- USDA Office of Rural Development