Glenda Cochrum, coordinator for the Fulton County KIDS Project, and Virginia Reddick, counselor for the Fulton County Schools, in Hickman, Kentucky, tell the story of a three-year-old girl named Ivy, one of the greatest successes resulting from their collaboration. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #8, Integrating Community Services (NCREL, 1992).
"Perhaps our greatest success was with a child named Ivy. Now Ivy was three. She did not walk, she did not talk, very little eye contact with her, really did not seem to understand the world around her, because the family had just moved into the area, they did not have any services through any agency, and they needed it. They needed financial help, they need housing help, the needed health, monitoring health, needs were there for them. So, we called a case conference, and we put so many services into that family.
"I happened to be after school the first time that Ivy walked, and words cannot express the elation on that child's face, that for the first time she was taking steps, and I know it's because of all the combined efforts of wanting to provide the services for this child, and to give her a chance."
Date posted: 1996