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Public service organizations are positioned to serve communities through targeted support and meaningful collaboration with specific populations. This chapter will focus on public service organizations that are uniquely positioned to serve the needs of youth, families, and communities – public schools. Public schools have direct access to students and families, and as such, should actively develop interventions and outreach to further engage, support, and empower those in the community. Specifically, this chapter seeks to provide a toolkit for strengthening the school–family–community connection in an effort to promote growth and foster empowerment among students and families within their communities. This toolkit first addresses school-level interventions, including: 1. A trauma and attachment sensitive approach to support all students; 2. An advisory program to promote school connectedness, and academic and behavioral supports; 3. A character program to aid students in identifying and developing character strengths; 4. School-wide initiatives to promote community connectedness; 5. Community service projects to foster collaboration and a sense of responsibility within the community; and 6. Individual and group counseling to support social-emotional health. The toolkit also addresses family- and community-level interventions. A case study that incorporates components of the proposed toolkit will also be presented.
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Improving the Implementation of Evidence-Based Programmes And Interventions via Staff Skills, Organisational Approaches, and Policy Development
This chapter describes two related prevention interventions aimed at middle school youth that focus on an important developmental context: out-of-school or leisure time. It discusses the importance of leisure to academic success and healthy adolescent development. The chapter also defines leisure education, and describes two school-based leisure education programs. Leisure is considered to be one of the more 'free' contexts in a person's life and contains a number of health-promoting characteristics. There are two major ways leisure can contribute to educational attainment: by influencing academic achievement at school and through informal learning that occurs outside the traditional classroom. It is important to pursue cultural issues regarding leisure and leisure education for different groups. The chapter discusses the issue of implementation fidelity related to leisure education programs. It highlights that any school-based program that is out of the ordinary should be given careful attention with regard to support of teachers.
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