{"id":78,"date":"2025-03-26T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:18:31","slug":"university-assisted-community-schools-uacs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=78","title":{"rendered":"University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the ecosystem of Community Schools continues to grow across the State of Vermont, the unique research-policy-practice partnership (RP<sup>3<\/sup>) between the University of Vermont, the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), and partnering Community Schools that supported the implementation and sustainability of Community Schools in Vermont, has evolved into the Catamount Community Schools Collaborative (CCSC), a <em>University-Assisted Community School (UACS)<\/em> structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/04\/Catamount-Community-Schools-Collaborative-A-University-SEA-RPP-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-933\" style=\"width:683px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/04\/Catamount-Community-Schools-Collaborative-A-University-SEA-RPP-3.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/04\/Catamount-Community-Schools-Collaborative-A-University-SEA-RPP-3-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">What are University-Assisted Community Schools?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <strong>University-Assisted Community School (UACS)<\/strong> is a community school in which universities serve as the lead partner in providing broadly based, sustained support. Academic partnerships connect the university\u2019s and school\u2019s curricula through a focus on helping to solve local community-identified problems. This approach is designed to improve both the quality of life in the community and the quality of learning at all levels of schooling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">UACS Examples<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nettercenter.upenn.edu\/what-we-do\/university-assisted-community-schools#:~:text=A%20University%2DAssisted%20Community%20School,solve%20local%20community%2Didentified%20problems.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southeastuacs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Southwest Regional Coalition for University Assisted Community Schools (SRCUACS)<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/ccpa\/community\/community-schools\/university-assisted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Binghamton University Community Schools (BUCS)<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communityschooling.gseis.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UCLA Center for Community Schooling<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">UACS Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityschools.org\/link\/join-a-network\/university-assisted-community-schools\/\">Coalition for Community Schools<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">School and Youth Health Related Activity <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/wellness\/oral-health\/vermont-802-smiles-network?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAtYy9BhBcEiwANWQQL3SLnKFbiIRfbDGPaBc4ePKaWoutyWlM7y_-KqSXl1fL4QqfozOsRxoC_8gQAvD_BwE#participants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">802 Smiles Network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"802 Smiles Summary Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHfq6EWqsd0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ecosystem of Community Schools continues to grow across the State of Vermont, the unique research-policy-practice partnership (RP3) between the University of Vermont, the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), and partnering Community Schools that supported the implementation and sustainability of Community Schools in Vermont, has evolved into the Catamount Community Schools Collaborative (CCSC), a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/?page_id=78\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9591,"featured_media":479,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-19-114410.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/files\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-19-114410.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ccsc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}