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Community Schools: Serving Children, Families & Communities
www.ncea.com/pubs_products/
by Larry E. Decker, Ph.D. and Mary Richardson Boo
ISBN: 0-930388-17-8

Our schools need new ways to think about and foster family and community involvement in education. Community schools provide a viable way to improve schools and build effective learning communities. This helpful booklet provides a clear and concise overview of community schools for policymakers, community leaders, and advisory groups.
Published 2001, 32-page paperback, 6" x 9"
Single copy: $2.95
225 copies: $2.00
26 or more: $1.50
Order online at NCEA website listed above.

Engaging Families & Communities-pathways to educational success
www.ncea.com/pubs_products
by Larry E. Decker, Virginia A. Decker & Associates
ISBN 0-930388-19-4

Educational observers worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its schools. But many public educators across the nation are already implementing ideas and strategies some simple, some complex that are making a difference, not only in children's lives, but also in the health and well being of communities. These are the educators who are finding ways to involve families in the education of their children, to keep the "public" in public education, and to secure broad commitment to the concept that it takes a community to educate a child. This book will help educators take some of the best ideas and models for creating and maintaining family and community involvement and weave them into a comprehensive family-school-community involvement program tailored to meet the needs of their own communities. The goal of such an initiative is to help all children succeed academically so that they may live productive lives in healthy communities. This optimistic goal has been has always been a part of the American dream.
Published 2000, 123-page paperback, 8 ½" x 11"
Single copy: $23.95
29 copies: $19.95
10 or more: $14.95
Order online at NCEA website listed above.

Home, School, and Community Partnerships
www.ncea.com/pubs_products
by Larry E. and Virginia A. Decker

Many Americans worry about what they see as a growing gulf between the American public and its public schools. Troubling trends seem to indicate a fraying relationship among families, schools and communities. Though there is agreement that change needs to occur, there is no agreement on the best way to make that change.
This book will help educators weave some of the best ideas for creating and sustaining family and community engagement into a comprehensive home-school-community partnership program tailored to their own communities.
For educational leaders, teachers, and family and community advocated interested in creating and maintaining home-school-community partnerships and collaborative initiatives.
Published 2002
Single copy: $28.95
10 or more: $24.95
Order online at NCEA website listed above.

Journey Into Community: Looking Inside the Community Learning Center
www.ncea.com/pubs_products/
Journey Into Community:
Looking Inside the Community Learning Center

Steve R. Parson

This book provides a roadmap for the journey which begins when a
traditional school decides to end its isolation from its community.
Community Learning Centers provide teachers, administrators, parents,
and community leaders with the tools they need to achieve important
educational goals which include:
- higher academic standards for students
- afterschool programs which support student learning and provide
enrichment activities in a safe environment
- the acquisition of essential technological skills by both students and
members of the community
- unlocking the storehouse of resources in the community to support
the education of our youth.
Author Steve Parson has served as President of the National Community
Education Association and is a member of the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Training Task Force. At Virginia Tech he has served as
an associate dean and a faculty member in the Educational Leadership
program.
Also available from Eye On Education
Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers
Available through NCEA after October 1, 2003.
www.ncea.com

Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools
http://www.iel.org/
Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools
Research confirms what experience has long suggested: Community schools work. The collective results [of the 20 community school evaluations] clearly show that community schools make the difference for students. (Blank, Melaville & Shah, 2003)
The Coalition for Community Schools is pleased to announce the release of Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools. This report examines the impact of 20 community school initiatives across the country, focusing in particular on outcomes that directly affect student learning. The authors found strong evidence that community schools do make the difference in improving student learning, promoting family engagement with students and schools; helping schools function more effectively and adding vitality to communities. By integrating existing community resources with the assets of the school, the community schools in the report produced remarkable improvements in student performance. The report includes fifteen profiles of community schools.
To download the report, go to http://www.communityschools.org/mtdhomepage.html. Copies of the full report are available for $12 plus shipping and handling. Executive summaries are available free of charge. All orders should be placed by e-mailing ccs@iel.org. Bulk orders are available at a reduced rate.

New Wave of Evidence
www.sedl.org/connections/resources
New Wave of Evidence is in.
"The evidence is consistent, positive, and convincing: families have a major influence on their children's achievement in school and through life" (Henderson & Mapp, 2002)
The National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) is pleased to announce the release of A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. This research synthesis examines the impact of different school, family and community connections on student achievement. Authors Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp (NCCE Task Force) reviewed more than 50 research studies published since 1995. They found that the research continues to grow and build an ever-strengthening case. When schools, families and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more.
To order a print copy or to download the report, go to http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources. You may also call SEDL Publications at 1-800-476-6861 to order a print copy. For questions about the report, please email connections@sedl.org

Resource Guide for Planning and Operating After-School Programs
Southwest Educational Development Lab
Telephone: 800-476-6861
Email: products@sedl.org
www.sedl.org/pubs/fam95
Resource Guide For Planning and Operating After-School Programs" is now available through the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. This guide organizes resources in the six areas identified by the National Center for Community Education (NCCE) as necessary for the successful operation of after-school programs: Management, Communication, Programming, Integrating K-12 and After-School Programs, Community Building/Collaboration, and Evaluation. The resources complement the training curricula developed by the NCCE Training Task Force for 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Click on website listed here for the PDF File available or you can purchase a hard copy for $18.00. Southwest Educational Development Laboratory website: www.sedl.org/pubs/fam95

Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers
www.ncea.com/pubs_products/
by Steve Parson
ISBN: 1-8833001-61-7

This practical new book with a vision of the future of education is by long-time NCEA member Steve Parson. Steve is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Virginia Tech. He also is a consultant and trainer in the fields of community education, educational partnerships, and education reform.
Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers demonstrates how your school can:
Provide services to the entire community, not just to school-age children; and
Develop community resources as an integral part of the school's instructional program.
Further, the book profiles sites at which various components of the vision have already been set in motion. And it provides guidelines for implementation developed from real experiences at real schools.
Published 1999, 180-page paperback, 6" x 9"
$29.95 per copy
Order online at NCEA website listed above.

EDUCATIONAL

Afterschool Alliance
www.afterschoolalliance.org
Dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for quality, affordable programs for all children.

Afterschool Gov
www.afterschool.gove
Connects people to Federal resources for information on strategies to support children and youth during out-of-school hours.

Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL)
www.ael.org
National Leadership Area: Educational Technology
States Served: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
With educators in the Region, the Laboratory designs R&D-based professional development, develops new processes and products through systematic R&D, evaluates education programs, serves as a neutral convener of state or regional groups, studies the implementation of state policies, and synthesizes and disseminates R&D-based information.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
www.ascd.org
Founded in 1943, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents 160,000 educators from more than 135 countries and 66 affiliates. Our members span the entire profession of educators, superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
www.bgca.org/
Boys & Girls Clubs of America leads a network of 1,600 local Boys & Girls Club facilities. The clubs provide programs for children 6-18 years old in leadership development, health and fitness, and educational enhancement.

Bureau for At-Risk Youth
www.at-risk.com/
The title says it all. Send for their extensive catalogue of videos, publications, programs, posters and other educational resources.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
http://cecp.air.org/
Together we can. That seems to be the theme of this site that tells you what you want to know about partnering. The new interactive page lets you discuss issues with the experts.

Children, Youth and Family Consortium
www.cyfc.umn.edu
A clearinghouse for information on these subjects, run by the University of Minnesota. Check out the ever-changing feature stories on a variety of pertinent subjects.

Coalition for America's Children
www.usakids.org/
The coalition promotes an agenda of health, education, safety and security for all American children. The group emphasizes the importance of collective community education and action for children.

Coalition of Community Schools
www.communityschools.org/
The Coalition for Community Schools works toward improving education and helping students learn and grow while supporting and strengthening their families and communities. Community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities -- before, during and after school, seven days a week.

Communitarian Network
www.gwu.edu/~ccps/
A nonsectarian, nonpartisan, international coalition asserting that individual liberties depend upon the bolstering of the foundations of civil society: families, schools, and neighborhoods.

Communities in Schools
www.cisnet.org/
Since 1977, CIS has brought existing resources, services, parents and volunteers into school settings to meet children's needs so that children can concentrate on learning. Check and see if there is a CIS program in your community.

CYFERNET: The Cooperative Extension System's (CES) children, youth and family information service
www.cyfernet.mes.umn.edu/
The cooperative Extension System's (CES) children, youth and family information service provides a central source for five cooperating networks and more than 100 community-based programs in the CYFAR Initiative.

Education Resources Information Center
http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/
The National Library of Education's huge database can get you information on just about any education subject you need. The site's search engine makes finding things possible, but it still isn't a cakewalk. So much information . . . so little time.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
This www site has some great links and resources for anyone writing or researching topics related to Community Education ideas and concept.

Family Resource Coalition of America
www.frca.org
Family Support America promotes family support as the nationally recognized movement to strengthen and support families and places the principles of family support practice at the heart of every setting in which children and families are present.

Inside Schools
www.Insideschools.org
An independent non-profit offering an especially useful service-authoritative reviews of the more than 1,100 NYC public schools. We provide a rare, inside view of what's really happening in schools - including going well beyond test score information.

Institute for Educational Leadership, IEL
www.iel.org
Their mission is to improve education and the lives of children and their families - through positive and visionary change.

Institute for Responsive Education/Boston, MA
www.responsiveeducation.org
Founded in 1973 IRE is now celebrating 30 years as an organization dedicated to a more equitable distribution of education opportunities and achievement for all children.

LA's BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program
Los Angeles, CA
Telephone: 213-978-0793
lasbest.org
This website is dynamic. Includes evaluations, guides, annual reports that are free to download as well as a events calendar regarding LA's BEST activities. Contact is Kim Larson, Public Information Director.

Learning Leaders
352 Park Avenue South, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10010
www.learningleaders.org
New York City's largest non-profit organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of public school children through the power of volunteers! Learning Leaders was the first program of its kind in the country and has served since 1956 as a model for hundreds of other school volunteer programs nationwide.

McREL Mid Continent Regional Educational Laboratory
www.mcrel.org
National Leadership Area: Standards-Based Instructional Practice
States Served: Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming
Making a difference in the quality of education for all through applied research, product development and service.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
www.naeyc.org/
The NAEYC holds conferences and advocates public policy with a goal of getting youngsters to read and write more proficiently.

National Association of Partners in Education
http://napehq.org/
Partners in Education tries to meld schools and community organizations or businesses together for the purpose of improving the lot of students. The Virginia-based coalition claims 7,500 members nationally. Its Web site is well thought-out.

NCREL North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
www.ncrel.org
National Leadership Area: Educational Technology
States served: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, & Wisconsin
Dedicated to helping schools-and the students they serve--reach their full potential. They specialize in educational applications of technology to improve learning.

New Skills for New Schools
www.ed.gov/pubs/NewSkills/
This online document from the U.S. Department of Education emphasizes the importance of family involvement in schools and suggests strategies for preparing teachers for working with families.

North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
www.ncrtec.org/
NCRTEC is one of 10 Regina Technology in Education Consortia funded by IES of the US Department of Education. Their mission is to help schools and adult literacy programs to develop technology-embedded practices that lead to improved and engaged learning for students. Their region includes 7 states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Northeast & Islands Laboratory at Brown University (LAB)
www.lab.brown.edu/
National Leadership Area: Teaching Diverse Students
States Served: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
The Education Alliance promotes educational change to provide all students equitable opportunities to succeed. We advocate for populations whose access to excellent education has been limited or denied.
For more than twenty-five years, we have worked directly with the education community to effect and sustain long-term improvement of student performance

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)
www.nwrel.org
National Leadership Area: Re-engineering Schools for Improvement
States Served: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
NWREL improves educational results for children, youth, and adults by providing research and development assistance in delivering equitable, high-quality educational programs. The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) provides research and development assistance to education, government, community agencies, business, and labor.

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
www.prel.org
National Leadership Area: Area of Curriculum & Instruction related to reading and language mastery
States Served: American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that serves schools across the U.S. and its affiliates from Rhode Island to Palau. PREL seeks to bridge the gap between research, theory, and practice in education and works collaboratively with schools and school systems to provide services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation.

Pathways to School Improvement Internet server
www.ncrel.org/pathways.htm
Pathways synthesis research, policy, and best practices on issues critical to educators engaged in school improvement.

Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS)
Contact: Elizabeth Partoyan
Telephone: 202-884-8513
Email: epartoya@aed.org
http://www.afterschool.org
The Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS) System is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs. The PPAS System includes:
* a national review and recognition process for collecting, identifying, and disseminating promising practices in afterschool programs;
* a website, www.afterschool.org, which features a searchable database of peer-reviewed promising practices in seven different areas related to afterschool;
* a moderated electronic Listserv with over 1,500 subscribers; and
* ongoing technical assistance to practitioners to increase program quality and build the capacity of the afterschool field to effectively serve children, youth, their families, and communities.

Smithsonian Education
Washington, DC
Telephone:  202-357-2700
Email:  info@si.edu
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Smithsonian Education, the central education website of the Smithsonian Institution. Click to access information and resources for educators, families and students. Very neat site!

SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE)
http://www.serve.org
National Leadership Area: Expanded Learning Opportunities
States Served: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina
SERVE, is an education organization with the mission to promote and support the continous improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast.

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
www.sedl.org
National Leadership Area: Family and Community Involvement
States Served: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
SEDL is a not-for-profit education research & development corporation. SEDL creates and provides research based products and services to improved teaching and learning. A New Way of Evidence & Emerging Issues, the two research syntheses on family & community connections with schools, is now available together at a discounted prices.

The National 4-H Council
www.fourhcouncil.edu/
The National 4-H Council is a not-for-profit educational organization that uses private and public resources to fulfill its mission: to involve youth as partners and resources in determining critical issues and responses.

WestEd
www.wested.org
National Leadership Area: Assessment of Educational Achievement
State Served: Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah
WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and service agency. The agency traces its history back to 1966 when Congress created a network of Regional Educational Laboratories. In 1995, two of those original laboratories Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development and Southwest Regional Laboratory joined forces to form WestEd.

Youth Service America
www.servenet.org
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA (YSA) is a resource center and the premier alliance of 300+ organizations committed to increasing the quantity and quality of volunteer opportunities for young Americans, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally. Founded in 1986, YSA's mission is to strengthen the effectiveness, sustainability, and scale of the youth service and service-learning field. A strong youth service movement will create healthy communities, and foster citizenship, knowledge, and the personal development of young people. YSA envisions a powerful network of organizations committed to making service the common expectation and common experience of all young Americans.

FAMILY & COMMUNITY

Center for Parent Leadership
PO Box 1658
Lexington, KY  40588
Telephone:  859-233-9849 x229
Fax:  859-233-0760
Email:  kgardner@prichardcommittee.org
www.centerforparentleadership.org
The Center for Parent Leadership (formerly Parent Leadership Associates). Providing thoughtful, interactive training and quality materials to enable parents to become decision making partners in their local schools.

Family Education Network
http://familyeducation.com/
Family PC Magazine called this spot "The World's Best Parenting Web Site." Check out the Message Board, an ongoing forum of relevant K-12 discussions.

National Association of Elementary School Principals
www.naesp.org
The mission of the National Association of Elementary School Principals is to lead in the advocacy and support for elementary and middle level principals and other education leaders in their commitment to all children.

National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
www.ncpie.org/
NCPIE advocates the involvement of parents and families in their children's education and the fostering of relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education process.

National Network for Youth
www.nn4youth.org
The National Network for Youth advocates in particular for at-risk young people in America. They put an emphasis on areas like HIV prevention and say that you need more than an isolated program or two to protect these children. You need a community. Yeah. It takes a village.

National Network of Partnership Schools
http://scov.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/p2000.html
Johns Hopkins University researchers established Partnership Schools to develop and maintaining school-family-community partnership programs. More than 800 schools and a growing number of districts and governmental agencies have joined the network.

National Parent Information Network
www.npin.org/
Network operated by two ERIC clearinghouses offers news, resources, and products for parents as well as mechanism to submit a question to.

National Parent Teacher Association
330 N. Wabash St., Suite 2100
Chicago, IL  60611-3630
Telephone:  312-670-6782
Fax:  312-670-6783
www.pta.org/

National Resource Center for Youth Services
www.nrcys.ou.edu/
Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, the mission here is to enhance services provided to at-risk youth and their families. There is video and publication section at this site which is chock full of interesting materials. It's worth the trip just to browse that page.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
www.servicelearning.org
Defining Service-Learning
In the past several years, service-learning has spread rapidly throughout communities, K-12 institutions, and colleges and universities. In a recent survey of its member institutions, Campus Compact gathered information on trends in community involvement and service across a good cross-section of the nation's colleges and universities (Compact, 2001).

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
www.safeyouth.org/
Statistics, plans, links, and information for teens, parents, teachers, and public health professionals are available.

One on One: The National Mentoring Partnership
www.mentoring.org/
One on One operates on the principal that mentoring - having one caring adult for each child - is the most critical single thing we can do for our nation's youth. Toward that end, they offer their resources and information.

The National Community Building Network
www.ncbn.org/
This group emphasizes community building in an urban setting. Issues include such things as youth development and dealing with law enforcement from a cityscape venue.

The National Community Education Association
www.ncea.com/
This newly designed site is an absolute must-see for everyone who is involved in or cares about community education. It is to the cause of community education what water is to a fish. Start here.

The National Parenting Center
www.tnpc.com/
Want a little advice? If you're a parent, probably not. You probably want a LOT of advice. That's where TNPC comes in. It has on-line experts on all kinds of topics of interest to concerned parents. The ParentTalk newsletter is also worth a gander.

The National School-Age Care Alliance
www.nsaca.org
A professional support network promoting quality programs for children and youth in their out of school time.

The Points of Light Foundation
www.pointsoflight.org/
Through collective research and development efforts in its member jurisdiction, The Points of Light Foundation creates and advances technology-based products, services and enterprises for all cities and counties.

Volunteers of America
www.voa.org/
Volunteers of America has 42 affiliates across the country. Each affiliate provides a wide range of human services to address unmet needs of the individuals in the community. Some of the affiliates provide key social services that may support the work of a School-Based Community Learning Center and be a valuable resource for children and families in the program. Any community contact/liaison can contact the Volunteers of America affiliate for more information on possible collaborative involvement.

Young Audiences
www.youngaudiences.org/index.html
The program for creating community collaborations for arts and education is what will attract community education advocates to the site of this organization, which has been around for nearly 50 years.

YouthLearn
http://www.youthlearn.org
Provides comprehensive services and resources for using project-based activities and technology to create exciting learning environments. Website also offers the YouthLearn Guide, an online forum, and training opportunities.

FUND RAISING

Fund-Raising.com
www.fund-raising.com/frindex.html
Money talks and that message comes through loud and clear at Fund-Raising.com. Some ideas are silly. Others impractical. But there is enough here so that you are liable to stumble across something that will give your community education program a financial boost.

Fundsnet
www.fundsnetservices.com/
This is the big enchilada for getting funding for worthwhile programs and individuals. It has more than 1,300 links and an exhausting menu of possibilities. Suffice it to say, if you legitimately need funding for anything from a playground program to a college scholarship, start here.

FUNDING, FOUNDATIONS & GRANTS

C. S. Mott Foundation Grants Database
MI
http://www.mott.org/grants.asp
Search the Grants Database for current and past grants available in the U.S.

National Institute on Out-of-School Time
http://www.niost.org/
Our Mission is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours.
NIOST believes that these experiences are essential to the healthy development of children and youth, who then can become effective and capable members of society. Our work bridges the worlds of research and practice.

School Funding Center
www.schoolfundingcenter.com
The School Funding Center is dedicated to helping schools find every funding source
available to them in the U.S. Our School Grant Database is the largest anywhere containing over 100,000 grants worth over $6,000. Check it out.

School Grants
www.schoolgrants.org
SchoolGrants was created in 1999 as a way to share grant information with PK-12 educators. Grant writing can be intimidating to those who are new at it. SchoolGrants helps ease those fears by providing online tips to those who need them. Finding suitable grant opportunities requires a great deal of time and research - SchoolGrants reduces the effort by listing a variety of opportunities available to public and private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and districts across the United States.

The Finance Project
1000 Vermont Avenue N. W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
Telephone: 202-628-4200
www.financeproject.org
To support decision-making that produces and sustains good results for children, families and communities, The Finance Project develops and disseminates information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs and financing strategies.

The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 800-424-9836
www.fdncenter.org

The Grantsmanship Center
www.TGCIgrantproposals.com
The Grantsmanship Center is a brand new resource designed to help nonprofit organizations and government agencies write better grant proposals and develop better programs.
This service is brought to you by TGCI, the world's leading provider of grantsmanship training and grant information.

The Mott Foundation
www.mott.org
This Web site has won plenty of awards. And rightly so. It's one of the best on the Internet and it has plenty of information on community education, especially the 21st Century Learning Center program.

U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20202-0498
Telephone: 800-USA-LEARN
www.ed.gov
US Dept of Education promoting educational excellence for al Americans. Features extensive search engine and specific information for Students, Parents, Teachers and Administrators. Learn more about No Child Left Behind, which helps all children, learn to read.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

U.S. Department of Agriculture
14th and Independence Ave, S. W.
Washington, DC 20005
Telephone: 202-720-2791
www.usda.gov

U.S. Department of Health and Humanities
200 Independence Ave, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201
Telephone: 202-619-0257 or 877-696-6775
www.hhs.gov
US Dept of Health and Humanities Services leading America to better health, safety and well-being. This website includes information concerning all aspects of health including a section on families and children. There is also a section regarding grants and scholarship information.

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington, DC 20530-0001
www.usdoj.gov

US Department of Education
www.ed.gov/
The melting pot for education information of all kinds, including community education. Only good organization keeps this site from being overwhelming. Pages of special interest to community educators include Community Based Organizations and the Delivery of Lifelong Learning Opportunities and The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education but there's a lot more. A lot.

PERIODICALS

Afterschool Matters
The Robert Bowne Foundation
345 Hudson Street
New York, NY  10014
Telephone:  212-931-1895
Fax:  509-561-8952
Email:  sara.hill@browne.com
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/bowne/journal.html
Afterschool Matters, a national, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting professionalism, scholarship, and consciousness in the field of after school education.

Caring for Kids Newsletter
Kinderstreet Corporation
220 E. Huron, Suite 510
Ann Arbor, MI  48104
Telephone:  734-822-2180
Fax:  734-822-2180
http://www.kinderstreet.com/Newsletter/newsletter.htm
Get "Caring for Kids" Delivered to You Free
Caring for Kids, It's Serious Business is a bi-weekly newsletter published by Kinderstreet Corporation. Focused on news, events, methods, best practices, legislation, and other topics specific to out-of-school time and early childhood programs. Best of all, it's free.

Community Education Journal
www.ncea.com/reading_room/reading_room_pubs.html
The Community Education Journal, published quarterly, is a forum for the exchange of ideas and practices in community education. Members receive it as a matter of course. Subscriptions are available for $25 annually; $28.00 foreign surface; $35.00 foreign airmail.

National Community Education Association, 3929 Old Lee Highway, St. 91-A, Fairfax, VA 22030-2401, Phone: 703-359-8973, Fax: 703-359-0972 , Current issues of the Journal are always available in bulk at $5.00 ea. for 10-29 copies; $3.00 ea. for 30 or more. Back issues also are available. Call the NCEA office to determine quantities.

Parent Leadership Associates
www.plassociates.org
PARENT LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATES is a collaboration between the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence and KSA-Plus Communications. Our mission is to improve student achievement by engaging parents to become decision-making partners in public schools through on-site consulting, technical support, workshops, conferences and materials.
Our two-volume series of guides on school data will help parent leaders and school activists close the persistent achievement gaps among different groups of students. The do-it-yourself guides will allow citizens to see for themselves how their schools are performing in up to 20 categories.

The Forum for Youth Investment
www.forumforyouthinvestment.org
The Out-of-School-Time Policy Commentary series is written and published by The Forum for Youth Investment with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. There are other issues available online. Check out the website.

The Future of Children
www.futureofchildren.org/
Online issues of the periodical put out by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Recent theme issues include: "Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect", "Financing Schools" and "Children and Poverty." Free Adobe Reader, which you'll need to view the magazine, is downloadable here.

The Mott Mosaic
http://www.mott.org/publications/pubs-browse.asp
Mott Mosaic
A quarterly magazine that reports on ongoing work across all four of the Foundation's programs, as well as providing updates on Foundation activities and concerns.

Conversations
A periodic publication featuring interviews, panel discussions or presentations of interest related to the Foundation and its grantees.

InFocus
A periodic magazine of the Foundation focusing on specific program topics of interest [no longer published].

@mott.now
A periodic newsletter of the Foundation focusing on general interest items [no longer published].

Mott Memo
A periodic newsletter focusing on a single topic of a timely nature.
Making Afterschool Count
A periodic newsletter looking at school/community partnerships and related topics that are part of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative [no longer published].
Please check their website to download and get more specific information concerning these periodicals.

SURVEYS

National Working with Teens Survey
Reno, NV
Email: jletner@unr.nevada.edu
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=75902251958
A team from University of Nevada, Reno is conducting a web-based survey of adults who work directly with youth (ages 10-18) in non-school time programs. The purpose of the study is to look at the relationship between youth program staff's background and characteristics, and their competency in implementing the features of positive youth development settings as outlined by the National Academy of Sciences report "Community Programs to Promote Youth Development" (Eccles & Gootman, 2002). It is hoped that the information collected from this survey will enhance the effectiveness of non-school time programs for youth nationwide. To show appreciation, they offer study participants the chance to win a Fisher Space Pen!

VIDEOS & MULTI-MEDIA

A Place of Their Own: Designing Quality Space for Out-Of-School Time
http://www.niost.org
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
A new resource, this 15-minute video and accompanying booklet provides and introduction to understanding and planning indoor and outdoor spaces for afterschool and youth programs. (Video & Print)
Click website listed above for cost

Advancing and Recognizing Quality (ARQ) Kit
http://www.nsaca.org
Susan O'Connor, Ellen Gannett, Cathy Heenan and Kathryn A. Wheeler
This kit is designed to be a self-study guide that helps afterschool providers examine the quality of their programs, and then make changes that will lead to better practices, through the use of a self-study team. (Video)
Click website listed above for cost

Afterschool Action Kit
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/action_kit.cfm
The Afterschool Alliance, a group of public, private and nonprofit organizations committed to raising awareness and expanding resources for afterschool programs, developed this tool. This kit is intended to promote afterschool programs within the community. The kit is available in English and Spanish. (11 pages)
No charge

Beyond the Bell: Linkages Video
http://www.ncrel.org/after/bellkit.htm
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
This Video raises questions and stimulates discussion about the relationship between after-school programming and the regular school day. (Video)
Click website above for cost

Building a Full-Service School: A Step-by-Step Guide
http://www.josseybass.com
Carol Calfee, Frank Wittwer and Mimi Meredith
This practical guide details how to create a school-based and school-linked services program that incorporates community resources to meet the needs of students and families. (Book & Disk)
Click on above website for cost

By Design: A New Approach to Programs for 10-15 Year-Olds
http://www.schoolagenotes.com
Work/Family Directions
This three-piece kit offers caregivers ideas about how to structure school-age care for young adolescents. (Print & Video)
Click above website for cost

Communicating the Afterschool Message Through the Media
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/prog_tools_media.cfm
Created by NCCE and the Afterschool Alliance. The media exerts enormous influence on the thinking of the American public. This very practical guide discusses the various types of media and provides practical, detailed guidelines for communicating. (40 pages)
No charge

Data Exploration: A Journey to Better Teaching and Learning
http://www.ncrel.org
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
This video and booklet package profiles two schools that operate in a successful data-driven school improvement system. (Video)
Click website listed above for cost

Expecting Success: How Standards Can Raise Student Performance
http://www.publicengagement.com
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation with the Collaborative Communications Group
Parents have concerns about what standards-based practices mean for their children. This video was created to provide a basis for group discussions that will answer these questions. (14 minutes)
Click website listed above for cost

Guide to Electronic Communication: Using Technology for Effective Business Writing and Speaking
http://www.prenhall.com
Kristen Bell DeTienne
Having trouble handling all of those e-mails? Trying to find the information you need on the web? Designing a powerful slide show to win support? Need to distribute multimedia business cards? The six chapters in this book offer practical hands on advise. (118 pages)
Click website listed above for cost

How to Lead Games
http://www.schoolagenotes.com
Bill Michaelis
This 39-minute video provides training for staff in play leadership principles. (Video)
Click above website for cost

Learn & Live
http://www.glef.org
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Learn & Live is a one-hour documentary film hosted by Robin Williams and a companion resource book. The documentary film shows five innovative K-12 school programs around the country that are integrating technology with teaching and learning and involving parents, business and the community. (Video and Guide)
Click above website for cost

Links to Learning: Supporting Learning in Out-of-School Time Programs
http://www.niost.org
This video describes the role that after-school programs play in contributing to children's learning and overall development. (Video)
Click website listed above for cost

Looking at Teacher Work: Standards in Practice
http://www.publicengagement.com
Collaborative Communications Group
Standards in Practice, or SIP, is a professional development strategy that can be used by educators and others who are committed to high standards. (Video)
Click website listed above for cost

Making the MOST of Out-of-School Time: The Human Side of Quality
http://www.niost.org
National Institute on Out-Of-School Time
This 11-minute video portrays the importance of the relationships that children develop in out-of-school time programs. (Video)
Click above website for cost

Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits
http://www.westviewpress.com
Jason Salzman
Written specifically for activists and nonprofits, this revised and updated edition of Making the News explains how to generate news coverage for important causes and issues. (289 pages)
Click website listed above for cost

Schools That Learn: High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance
http://www.publicengagement.com
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation with the Collaborative Communications Group
This video was created for teachers and administrators who need to implement standards-based programs. (Video)
Click website listed above for cost

Sustainability Planning Workbook
http://www.financeproject.org
The Finance Project
This guide will help program developers and community leaders identify basis issues in sustaining promising initiatives, address the strategic details and develop a comprehensive plan. (Workbook and CD)
Click above website for cost

The Jossey-Bass Guide to Strategic Communications for Nonprofits
http://www.josseybass.com
Kathy Bonk, Henry Griggs and Emily Tynes
This nuts-and-bolts workbook is a tool kit for non-profit organizations that want to create successful communications strategies. (208 pages)
Click website listed above for cost

The Sixty-Second Guide to Working Effectively with the News Media
http://www.independentsector.org/members/media/sixty_second_guide.html
Independent Sector
This pocket-size guide gives advice for staff and volunteers on building good media relations. (2 pages)
No charge

YOUTH

Community YouthMapping (CYM)
Contact: Eric Kilbride
Telephone: 202-884-8264
Email: ekilbrid@aed.org
www.communityyouthmapping.org
Community YouthMapping (CYM) is deceptively simple: young people canvassing their neighborhoods in search of places to go and things to do. The young people use a survey tool to gather baseline information on the resources available for them and their families in their communities.

Do Something
www.dosomething.org/
Do Something's mission is to inspire young people to believe that change is possible. They train, fund and mobilize them to be leaders who measurably strengthen their communities.

Girls Incorporated
www.girlsinc.org
This is a fun and at the same time serious site by an organization whose goal is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. Check out the tips, the tests and the Girls Bill of Rights.

Kids Campaign
www.kidscampaigns.org/
Sponsored by the Benson Foundation, this site is for all advocates of children. Find out the 101 things you can do right now for children in your community. And check out the Want Ads section for paying and volunteer jobs.

National Head Start Association
www.nhsa.org/
Some people will tell you that Head Start is the best thing going for young children in America today. We will tell you that this Web site is informative and is updated constantly. Check out their new Human Resources page.

Save the Children
www.savethechildren.org/
Every moment, in over forty-five countries around the world, Save the Children brings new hope, help, and life to children in desperate need. If you would like to learn more about how we make lasting positive change in the lives of children around the world, just click below to our website.

Superkids Software Review
www.superkids.com/
Provides impartial reviews of children's educational software by parents, teachers, and kids.

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