Expanding Partnerships: Involving Colleges and Universities in Interprofessional Collaboration and Service Integration.

The authors spent three years visiting innovative school-linked service programs. The programs offer interprofessional collaboration between educational, health, and social service organizations. The report notes how such collaboration on community needs works more effectively than noncollaboration between such organizations. Lawson and Hooper-Briar challenge higher education personnel by calling for greater involvement by higher education with such collaborations and also address the importance of gaining and sustaining faculty commitments and involvement. The authors include 10 case studies that show how various colleges and universities have implemented collaboration with other professional organizations to enhance community services. (SH)