The Journey Toward Increased and Improved Health and Social Services for Our Nation's Youth Begins with a Single Step: Collaboration

Abstract:
This issue brief states that schools may be a logical convener of collaborative efforts to reach goals that cannot be achieved by any agency acting alone. It identifies five elements common to collaboration: sharing information and ideas, setting a common goal, sharing responsibility, working together, and sharing resources. It identifies barriers that must be overcome for interagency collaboration and provides a helpful list of questions for policy-makers to ask before initiating an interagency collaboration. Examples of successful collaborations in New York, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania are described. The issue brief encourages school districts to take the lead in working with others to address students’ needs through increased and improved coordinated services. It also describes the Link-Up For Learning Act, which was moving through Congress at the time the issue brief was published.

Publication: NSBA Issue Brief #12


Date Published: 8/1/1992

Pages: 2

Location Code: 11191