Bibliography of Key Resources

Ordering Information for Key Resource Materials

Some publications are especially helpful in developing Community Partnerships and implementing Caring Communities. Many of these are listed below, with ordering information. Many may also be available for borrowing from your Community Partnership or from the Family and Community Trust.

Acta Publications
4848 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
800-397-2282 (phone), 800-397-0079 (fax)

• Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets
• Mobilizing Community Assets (training video)
• A Guide to Mapping Local Business Assets and Mobilizing Local Business Capacities
• A Guide to Mapping Consumer Expenditures and Mobilizing Consumer Expenditure Capacities
• A Guide to Mapping and Mobilizing the Economic Capacities of Local Residents
• A Guide to Capacity Inventories: Mobilizing the Community Skills of Local Residents
• A Guide to Evaluating Asset-Based Community Development: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities

Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
919 Lafond Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104
1-800-274-6024 or 612/659-6024 (phone), 612/642-2061 (fax)
E-mail: books(at)wilder.org

• Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey

Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
410/547-6600 (phone), 410/547-6624 (fax)
Web site: www.aecf.org 

• The Path of Most Resistance: Reflections on Lessons Learned from New Futures

Center for the Future of Children
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
300 Second Street, Suite 102, Los Altos, CA 94022
650/948-3696 (phone), 650/948-6498 (fax)
E-mail: L.Aguliar(at)packfound.org

• The Future of Children: School Linked Services

Center for the Study of Social Policy
1250 Eye Street, NW, Suite 503, Washington, DC 20005-3922
202/371-1565 (phone), 202/371-1472 (fax)

• The Case for Shifting to Results-Based Accountability with A Start-Up List of Outcome Measures
• Systems Change at the Neighborhood Level: Creating Better Futures for Children, Youth, and Families
• Toward New Forms of Local Governance: A Progress Report from the Field
• Neighborhood Strategies to Support Families: Current Approaches and Future Directions

Family Resource Coalition of America
20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60606
312/338-0900 (phone), 312/338-1522 (fax)
E-mail: frca(at)frca.org

• Guidelines for Family Support Practice
• Companion Guide to Guidelines for Family Support Practice
• Family Support and School-Linked Services
• Key Characteristics and Features of Community-Based Family Support Programs

Harvard Family Research Project
38 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-2357
617/495-9108 (phone), 617/495-8594 (fax)
E-mail: hfrp(at)hugse1.harvard.edu

• Building Villages To Raise Our Children Series
  • Collaboration
  • Evaluation
  • From Programs to Service Systems
  • Funding and Resources
  • Staffing
• The Guide to Results-Based Accountability: An Annotated Bibliography of Publications, Web Sites and Other Resources

Josey-Bass Publishing, Co.
350 Sansome Street, 5th floor, San Francisco, CA 94104
415/782-3100 (phone), 415/433-0499 (fax)
Order by e-mail at www.jbp.com

• Collaborative Leadership: How Citizens and Civic Leaders Can Make a Difference
• The Skilled Facilitator
• Re-inventing Early Care and Education: A vision for a quality system

McGraw-Hill
Customer Services
P. O. Box 548
Blacklick, Ohio 43004-0548
1-800-262-4729
Order by e-mail at www.McGraw-Hill.com

• Facilitation: Providing Opportunities for Learning
• Mastering Meetings: Discovering the Hidden Potential of Effective Business Meetings

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
1509 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-1426
800-424-2460 (phone) 202-328-1846 (fax)
E-mail: Resource_Sales(at)naeyc.org

• Leadership in Early Care and Education

Therman Evans, MD
Wholelife Associates, Inc.
906 Rock Lane
Elkins Park, PA 19207
215-576-8319 (phone) 215-884-9203 (fax)

• Handbook on Wholeness
• Keys to Wholeness, Health and Healing (a Biblical Perspective)

U.S. General Accounting Office
P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20884-6015
202/512-6000 (phone), 301/258-4066 (fax)
Order by e-mail at www.gao.gov

• School-Linked Human Services: A Comprehensive Strategy for Aiding Students at Risk of School Failure
• Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services

Yale University Press
P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040
1-800-987-7323 (phone), 1-800-777-9253 (fax)
E-mail: custservice.press(at)yale.edu 

• Integrating Services for Children and Families: Understanding the Past to Shape the Future

The following publications can be purchased at any retail bookstore:

• Getting to Yes -Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In 
  by Roger Fisher and William Ury

• Getting Together-Building Relationships As We Negotiate
  by Roger Fisher and Scott Brown

• Getting Ready To Negotiate-A Step by Step Guide To Preparing For Any Negotiation
  by Roger Fisher and Danny Ertel

• United We Stand: Collaboration for Child Care and Early Education Services
  by Sharon-Lynn Kagan

list and ordering information compiled June 1998