title: Anchors of the community: community schools in Chicago.
abstract: In partnership with Chicago's public and private sectors, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has successfully implemented a citywide education reform effort, designed to transform Chicago's neighborhood schools into vibrant centers of the community. Mayor Richard M. Daley and Arne Duncan, CEO of CPS, launched the Community Schools Initiative in January 2002. What started as an idea that was developed by a local foundation has now grown into the largest-scale community school effort in the nation, with sixty-seven schools in operation and a plan to move to one hundred community schools by 2007. This initiative currently involves seventeen private funders, ten technical assistance providers, thirty-four community-based organizations that offer on-site services to children and families, and over three hundred additional community partnerships that provide one-day events such as health fairs and violence prevention workshops.
authors.affiliation: After School and Community School Programs for Chicago Public Schools, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Swanson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D002641:Chicago; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D017149:Private Sector; D016730:Program Development; D017150:Public Sector; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012922:Social Change; D012944:Social Support