Title

The Safe Project: Community-Driven Partnerships in Health, Mental Health, and Education to Prevent Early School Failure

Keywords

Community organization; Health; Mental health; Prevention; School failure

Abstract

This article presents a case study of an innovative school-based health and mental health project that prevents early school failure in one county in Oklahoma. Success is attributed to social work development of broad-based partnerships involving families, schools, communities, and public policy officials. Citizen-driven, these partnerships have meshed previously fixed institutional boundaries in health, mental health, and education to prevent early school failure. The article describes school-family partnerships that form the core of the project's service intervention model. Statistics on service activities and outcomes are presented, along with a discussion of lessons learned for implementation of the project.

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Publication Title

Health and Social Work

Volume

22

Issue

4

Number of Pages

282-289

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/hsw/22.4.282

Socpus ID

0031264479 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031264479

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