This poster presents the results of a test of the effectiveness of a school-based, partnership program aimed at improving the academic and social/emotional outcomes for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities served in a special education setting in a public middle school. The partnership program consisted of a team of professionals and family members who met at the school to jointly develop a school, community, and family plan that contained a set of goals and objectives to be collaboratively accomplished by school staff, community and family members, including the student. There were 105 meeting held for 21 students and families over a two-year period. Results indicate that students who participated in the partnership program had an increased likelihood to remain in a community school, a decrease in discipline rates, and an increase in their math achievement more so than students at a comparison school.
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Keywords: Child/Adolescent Mental Health, Service Delivery
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