Beyond the Classroom: Experiences of a School-Based Services

implement school-based social and health services on their campuses and to demonstrate the effectiveness of this method of service delivery by evaluating the project. The SoF operated in four sites, each with a middle school and one or two feeder elementary schools in four Texas cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The SoF brought together a variety of health and social services programs designed to enhance the well-being of the children in the target areas and their families. The information in this report, which is an explanation of project implementation rather than a how-to manual for program replication, came from surveys of coordinators, educators, service providers, parents and others who played important roles and with interviews conducted throughout the program. The implementation of a variety of social services was the program strength mentioned most often by survey respondents. Parent development was also mentioned as a major strength. Another key to SoF success was the presence of strong coordinators. The evaluation also demonstrated some challenging realities th