ED395664 PS024119
Title: Continuity in Early Childhood: A Framework for Home,
School, and Community Linkages.
Author Affiliation: Regional Educational Laboratories Early
Childhood Collaboration Network.(BBB31958)
Pages: 141
Publication Date: November 1995
Notes: Printed on colored paper.
Sponsoring Agency: Administration for Children, Youth, and
Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. (BBB19384)
Contract No: RP91002007
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC06 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEOCT1996
This guide
presents a framework that identifies what a home, school, and community
partnership can do to help families thrive as they experience change
and their young children grow. The guide explains how connections
among home, school, and community enable families to move from setting
to setting with ease and build on their previous experience. The
guide defines the goal of continuity: for families to be able to
shape and choose appropriate services for themselves and for their
young children so that they will then be able to move forward with
confidence and hope. The framework for early childhood continuity
presented in this guide keeps the whole child in focus, genuinely
involves the family, and emphasizes both the horizontal and vertical
aspects of continuity. The framework consists of the following eight
elements: (1) families as partners; (2) shared leadership; (3) comprehensive
and responsive services; (4) culture and home language; (5) communication;
(6) knowledge and skill development; (7) appropriate care and education;
(8) evaluation of partnership success. Each element is introduced
with a short rationale, which summarizes the thinking behind the
element. Following the rationale, a list of indicators is introduced,
which describes what the elements look like in practice and provides
a means to judge whether an element has been put into practice.
The guide concludes with a glossary and a guide for partnerships
that provides general information on how partnerships can form and
use the framework to further continuity efforts. Each section of
the guide contains references. (TJQ)
Descriptors: *Agency Cooperation; Child Health; Community
Role; Day Care; Early Childhood Education; *Family Programs; Family
Role; Family School Relationship; *Integrated Services; *Participative
Decision Making; Program Evaluation; School Community Relationship;
School Role; *Social Services
Identifiers: Access to Services; Continuity; Family Needs;
Family Resource and Support Programs; *Family Support; *Partnerships
in Human Services
