THE MISSING LINK IN SCHOOL-LINKED SOCIAL-SERVICE PROGRAMS

States and local communities have responded to the urgent demand for b etter coordinated services by creating organizational linkages across schools and human service agencies. In the rush to promote schools as the linchpin for this policy proposal, however, critical issues relate d to the nature of interactions between families and schools have been mostly ignored by policy-makers and educators. This study of the Kent ucky Family Resource Centers explores the effect of family-school inte ractions on school-linked service programs. The findings suggest the n eed to connect the dialogue on integrated services to the impulses of reform in school-family-community networks.