Full-Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families - Hardcover

Dryfoos, Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078794064X ISBN 13: 9780787940645

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1998

Synopsis

Full-Service Schools describes the movement to create an array of integrated support services in schools. It examines the declining welfare of many American families and prescribes solutions for the problems of increased sex, drugs, violence, and stress among youth.

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Full-Service Schools describes the movement to create an array of integrated support services in schools that respond to the declining welfare of many American families and the rising "new morbidities'' of sex, drugs, violence, and stress among youth.Increasingly, health, mental health, and social service agencies are locating their programs in schools, where they offer health screening, psychological counseling, drug prevention, parent education, and other important services. This vision of a full-service school—a new environment that brings together in one place innovative schooling and "everything else" that children, youth, and families need to make it—is currently gaining momentum through grass-roots efforts and state and federal legislative initiatives. Joy G. Dryfoos describes these programs and the services they provide, and she explains how they are organized, staffed, and funded. She builds a compelling case for broad public commitment to improving the social environments in disadvantaged communities. Full-serviced schools are indeed the wave of the future. They are responsive to today's problems. They are potentially cost-effectibe. And they are well-received by students, parents, and school people. Dryfoos provides us with the examples and information we need to turn the full-service vision into a reality.

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Full-Service Schools examines the declining economic position of many American families and the rising "new morbidities" of sex, drugs, violence and stress among youth, and describes the movement to create integrated school support services to respond to these crises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 078794064X
• ISBN 13: 9780787940645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336