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Coordinated social services may be one of the most promising aspects of the current era of systemic educational reform. However, moving from a policy that calls for coordinated service integration into the actual practice of providing services requires the resolution of a host of complex, interacting issues. This paper provides an overview of what is known about service-integration projects and discusses how this knowledge can be used. A conclusion is that service integration is a highly complex, labor intensive, and dynamic process that also tends to be site specific. Several general models exist. "Collaboration " represents the high end of involvement and intensity for groups developing a service-integration alliance, with "coordination " at the midpoint, and "cooperation " representing the lowest level of involvement. Project scope is usually either statewide or local. During the implementation and dissemination stages of a service-integration project, participating agencies