Resource Topic: School & Community Partnerships

“Mapping Your School-Community Partnership Ecosystem” is part of a training curriculum created by Youth Development Executives of King County (2010-2023) for public use, to expand accessibility to the School & Community Partnership Toolkit resources. This workshop outline is accompanied by a PowerPoint slide deck as well as tools from the Toolkit which are available in School’s Out Washington’s online Resource Library. The curriculum was published online in 2023.

“Program Design in a Partnership Context: Linking Activities to Outcomes” is part of a training curriculum created by Youth Development Executives of King County (2010-2023) for public use, to expand accessibility to the School & Community Partnership Toolkit resources. This slide deck is accompanied by a workshop outline as well as tools from the Toolkit which are available in School’s Out Washington’s online Resource Library. The curriculum was published online in 2023.

“Program Design in a Partnership Context: Linking Activities to Outcomes” is part of a training curriculum created by Youth Development Executives of King County (2010-2023) for public use, to expand accessibility to the School & Community Partnership Toolkit resources. This workshop outline is accompanied by a PowerPoint slide deck as well as tools from the Toolkit which are available in School’s Out Washington’s online Resource Library. The curriculum was published online in 2023.

This checklist is intended to help community-based service providers to begin a discussion with a school, or to check in on a particular partnership, around the way the partners are working together. It can also be used to orient staff to the ongoing partnership work of the organization.

The community-based organization partner and the school leader who supports the partnership can use this conversation guide to reflect annually on the partnership and identify lessons learned that can inform their future collective and individual work.

A thriving school-community partnership ecosystem has several key elements: shared vision and leadership; aligned, responsive implementation; and shared accountability for success. This one-page checklist defines these elements in more detail.