While urban teachers cannot provide the services themselves, the can play a vital role in building and maintaining the partnerships and linkages with the outside social service agencies that are able to delive them. Many types of school-linked programs are currently in operation. The successful provision of all of the services depends not only upon administrators, but also on the school people in direct contact with students, including classroom teachers. Collaboration between members of a participating agency Collaboration between teachers, social services, and families. School administrators must go out of their way to find appropriate service providers who are willing to become partners.
Teachers are primary service providers for the children in their classrooms.
As such, they can be the force that make school-linked programs work, acting not only as the essential channels of communication between service providers and local communities, but also as full and committed participants in the daily delivery of social services. The full participation of teachers can do much to fulfill the hopes raised by the implementation of school linked programs.