Charles Terrett, superintendent of Fulton County Schools, in Hickman, Kentucky, relays a positive comment made by a social services director, following the first case conference involving collaboration of the schools and different agencies. Excerpted from the video series Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference #8, Integrating Community Services (NCREL, 1992).
"The first day's conference was help in May of 1989, never will forget it. I sat in my office here, and they were back in the board room, and Henry Brazzle, social service director for the area came into my office after that meeting and said, 'Charlie, this meeting today lasted one hour, on this particular family. It saved my agency at least five days of work.'"
Date posted: 1996