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Parent-School and Community Partnerships in Children's Mental Health: Networking Challenges, Dilemmas, and Solutions

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Inter-agency collaboration, service coordination, and the creation of successful partnerships among parents, teachers, and human services professionals continues to be a challenge for the development of responsive community-based systems of care for at-risk youth and their families. We explore how one inner-city neighborhood struggles to create successful community partnerships through traditional networking strategies. Our findings identify networking strategies that appear to work and those that do not. Recommendations for improving communication are provided.

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  1. Indiana University School of Social Work, Indianapolis, IN

    Philip M. Ouellette (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Child and Family Studies, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

    Richard Briscoe (Assistant Professor)

  3. Parent Education Center, Just Full Service School, Hillsborough County School District, West Tampa, FL

    Chandra Tyson (Coordinator)

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Ouellette, P.M., Briscoe, R. & Tyson, C. Parent-School and Community Partnerships in Children's Mental Health: Networking Challenges, Dilemmas, and Solutions. Journal of Child and Family Studies 13, 295–308 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JCFS.0000022036.44808.ad

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