Community Collaborations/Partnerships
The Guidebook on Designing an Expanded Learning Time Program includes resources and examples to assist schools in developing community partnerships to enrich the program experience for students.
The YWCA’s mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. YWCA provides safe places for women and girls in time of crisis, job training, counseling, childcare, health and fitness, and well as other reasons.
The YMCA serves thousands of communities, uniting children and adults of all ages and backgrounds. Information on the YMCA for the United States, and links to the YMCAs that serve the communities through the United States.
Youth participate in fun, hands-on learning activities supported by the latest research of land-grant universities that focus on Science, Engineering, & Technology, Healthy Living, and Citizenship.
The Local Initiatives Support Collaboration (LISC) is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity- good places to work, do business, and raise children.
The Junior Achievement program promotes business education for youth. Students who participate in Junior Achieve programs demonstrate a significant understanding of business and economic concepts.
This PDF provides a model for creating student centered environments in schools and ways for schools to collaborate with its community to enhance student learning.
The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project connects you with research, resources and best practices for building affordable and sustainable approaches to expanding learning in your community.
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education. CSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. Site provides access to a number of different newsletters including “Language, Culture, and Equity,” “Reading and Writing Improvement,” and “Innovation Quarterly.”
This website dedicated to creating opportunities for people of all ages with disabilities or social and economic disadvantages to pursue their dreams.
Boys Town offers a continuum of Child and Family Services including Intensive Residential Treatment Services, Group Home Services, Intervention & Assessment Services, Child and Family Support services, in addition to many other services.
Boys & Girls Clubs offer a place for youth to go after school or on weekends. Clubs reach out to kids you cannot afford, or may lack access to other community programs. The club provides services to promote and enhance the development of youth in a safe and fun environment.