Full Service Community Schools: Prevention Of Delinquency In Students With Mental Illness And/or Poverty

by Robert F. Kronick

This book is about children who are living dangerously close to the edge, the edge of delinquency, mental illness, and poverty. Beginning with a discussion of the role of Joy Dryfoos in the development of comprehensive schools, this work is based on the Full Service Schools program which began in 1998 in three elementary inner-city schools in Knoxville, Tennessee. Chapter topics include culture and self-efficacy, the Appalachian Experience, a systemOCOs view of full service community schools, juvenile justice and the rights of children, serving the public in inner-city schools with pragmatic ways to improve low performance, the phenomenology of events covering 2000-2004, student contributions, and effective teacher preparation that meets the needs of the whole child and the family. The team that manages the full service school project is composed of principals, university faculty and students, and community agency personnel. Ministers from neighborhood churches have served on an ad hoc basis as well as parents from the neighborhood. The long-term goal is to have a solid base of community involvement that is needed to support a childOCOs success in school and the community and to make certain that every child in crisis is viewed and treated as an individual. This book is about people who are devoted to helping children and their families. This comprehensive and insightful book will be valuable to school administrators, private child care workers, family resource and youth service center coordinators, alternative educators, and others that are concerned with improving educational quality."

148 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Robert F. Kronick is a Professor at the University of Tennessee in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, the Director of University Assisted Community Schools, and an Adjunct faculty member in the Haslam Scholars Programs. Kronick has written about dropouts, University Assisted Community Schools, at-risk youth, and migrant/seasonal farm workers.