ABSTRACT
Some of the policies that call for school and community collaboration are generic in the sense that they do not specify whether such collaboration is to secure input for school health education programs, to foster support for program implementation and maintenance, or to ensure that factors which influence targeted behaviors are addressed coordinately within the school and within the community. For instance, a generic policy simply may suggest that ‘school and community agencies should work together to foster the health of children and youth.’ Other policies are strategic in that they specify that the purpose of collaboration is to achieve one or some combination of the three objectives. To effectively facilitate the strategic integration of efforts by such numerous and diverse agencies, two management procedures consistently have been called for by various international and national policies. One is to employ a trained professional to integrate school and community activities.
