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Collaboration Links
Collaborative community efforts are constructive responses to creating
caring communities and expanding the safety net for children, youth and families.
(National Commission on Children, 1991; Dryfoos, 1990; Meszaros, 1993). The goal of
community collaboration is to bring individuals and members of communities, agencies and
organizations together in an atmosphere of support to systematically solve existing and
emerging problems that could not be solved by one group alone.
To support collaboration among universities and community-based
programs, the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA, created five National Networks to
marshal faculty and program resources to directly respond to the economic, social, and
human stresses faced by children, youth and families.
These networks, which constitute the Cooperative Extension System Children, Youth and
Family (CYF) Network, are linked and accessed through CYFERNET
an Internet-based children, youth and family information system operated by the CSREES.
The CSREES currently funds five networks for Child Care, Collaboration, Family Resiliency,
Science and Technology Literacy, and National Decisions for Health. |
