Robert D. Bhaerman
This monograph focuses on a major initiative that envisions schools delivering a wide array of educational, health, nutritional, day care, and related social services to children, youth, and families. This initiative, often called "service integration," attempts to integrate the delivery of services through collaborations that include schools as well as major health and social service providers. The perspective in this monograph is on rural schools and community agencies, particularly those that address the needs of traditionally underserved and underrepresented populations.
The primary target audiences are rural school teachers and administrators, as well as their colleagues in health and social service agencies, who need to address a number of unresolved problems and still-to-be-answered questions.
The monograph provides extensive information with reference to a number of critical questions about the nature of service integration, its application to rural settings, and approaches to instituting a service integration program.