ESC Parent Involvement Network Tours Family Resource Centers

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Blue
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Family Resource Centers ◽  
Family Resource

Kentucky's Family Resource Centers

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 293-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUDY E. DOKTOR ◽  
JOHN POERTNER
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Family Resource Centers ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Family Resource Center ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Resource ◽  
To Come ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration

Similar developments in education and social services offer an opportunity for these two systems to come together to better meet the needs of all children and families. both systems are seeking to be inclusive, to decategorize, and to address growing problems and decreasing resources with coordination and collaboration. these movements have joined forces in what is called the “school-linked service movement,” of which the family resource center idea is representative. this article explores this idea by identifying lessons learned in the development of family resource centers in kentucky and discussing policy issues that are essential for both education and social services to address to assure continued development of this movement.

The Missing Link in School-Linked Social Service Programs

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Smrekar
Keyword(s):  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Proposal ◽  
Family Resource Centers ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Family Resource ◽  
Organizational Linkages ◽  
Social Service Programs ◽  
Service Agencies

States and local communities have responded to the urgent demand for better coordinated services by creating organizational linkages across schools and human service agencies. In the rush to promote schools as the linchpin for this policy proposal, however, critical issues related to the nature of interactions between families and schools have been mostly ignored by policy-makers and educators. This study of the Kentucky Family Resource Centers explores the effect of family-school interactions on school-linked service programs. The findings suggest the need to connect the dialogue on integrated services to the impulses of reform in school-family-community networks.

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