Data, Reference and Research

The Attendance Imperative: Reducing Absences, Spurring Achievement | Download >>
Policy brief on what California can do to address chronic absence.
Attendance Works and The Chronic Absence and Attendance Partnership, 2011

Attendance Works | Research | Browse >>
Data on the effects of chronic absence.

Building Neighborhoods | United Neighborhood Centers of America | Visit >>
Coverage of federal urban policy.

California Healthy Start: Seed Funding to Build Partnerships for Student Success
Deanna Niebuhr, MPP, Partnership for Children and Youth, and Joanne Bookmyer, PhD, Center for Community School Partnerships, CRESS Center, UC Davis School of Education, 2011
Full Report >>  | Executive Summary >>

California Report Card 2011 | Children Now | Download >>
Analyzes and grades the key domains of children’s well-being.

Coalition for Community Schools | Results | Visit >>
Short- and long-term results and impact of community schools.

Forum on Child and Family Statistics | ChildStats.gov | Visit >>
Statistics and reports on children and families.

Socioeconomic Disadvantage, School Attendance, and Early Cognitive Development
The Differential Effects of School Exposure | Download >>
Douglas D. Ready, Sociology of Education, 2010.

Working Families Policy Summit 2011 | Connecting Health and Education
Policy briefs, Partnership for Children and Youth, 2011.
Recommendations >> | Fact Sheet >> | Legislative History >>

Funding Tools and Technical Assistance

California School Health Centers Association | Find Resources >>
Offers advocacy and technical support for school-based health care.

Coalition for Community Schools | Resources | Find it >>
Toolkits and publications on funding, evaluation and how-to.

Don’t Stop Collaborating – Just Stop Creating New Collaboratives | Get a copy >>
Offers tips for working collaboratively without redundancy. The Forum for Youth Investment.

Financing Community Schools | Coalition for Community Schools | Download >>
Paper on leveraging resources to support student success. November 2010.

Supporting Student Success through the Mental Health Services Act | Download >>
The Community Schools Approach. Partnership for Children and Youth, 2008.

Toolkit | John W Gardner Center | Get it >>
Building, Assessing, Sustaining and Improving Community Schools.

Tools and TA | Attendance Counts | Browse >>
Resources for monitoring, understanding and addressing chronic absence.

Organizations

California School Health Centers Association | Visit CSHC >>
Offers advocacy and technical support for school-based health care.

Center for Community School Partnerships | UC Davis | Visit >>
Research, evaluation, and technical assistance, connecting schools and communities.

Hedy Nai-Lin Chang | Attendance Counts | Visit >>
National and state initiative promotes the importance of attendance in achieving academic success.

Coalition for Community Schools | Visit >>
An alliance of national, state and local organizations.

John W Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University | Visit >>
Partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research, and effect change.

Additional Community School Resources

DIPLOMA Act | S.3595 | Learn more >>
Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act.

Video | Kent School Services Network | Watch it >>
Community collaboration for student success in Grand Rapids MI.