This guide is designed for therapists who are looking for faster, more reliable ways of preventing and solving child problems. It focuses on the variety of family-school collaboration that is school-based and involves interaction between families, school, and community agencies. Chapter 1 presents a collaborative model called FACETS (Families and Agencies Collaborating in Ecosystemic Teams in Schools) for working with families in schools. Within the FACETS model of child problem-solving there is a progression of intervention steps or stages from simple procedures involving only the teacher and student to more complex ones. Chapter 2 makes the case for greater collaboration between child caretakers, particularly between parents and school personnel. Chapter 3 discusses step six of the FACETS model, the Collaborative Team Intervention. This intervention involves a meeting of the student, school personnel, community workers and personnel, and family members. Case studies from preschool, elementary, middle, and high school levels are presented in chapters 4 through 7. Chapter 8 discusses eight obstacles in the path of the systems therapists and school coordinators who become interested in establishing a school-based collaboration program for children. This chapter also presents seven guidelines or suggestions as directives for those interested in establishing collaboration in schools. Chapter 9 discusses the effect of the collaboration approach on school personnel and climate, and on the community. In chapter 10, steps are outlined that must be taken if family-school collaboration is to move from the level of pilot project to that of prioritized standard practice. A bibliography is included. (ABL)