title: The SAFE project: community-driven partnerships in health, mental health, and education to prevent early 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32826-3358, USA. poole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Poole
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D009825:Oklahoma; D012424:Rural Population; D012574:Schools; D012947:Social Work; D013332:Student Dropouts