This book provides specific guidelines that for developing comprehensive home-school partnerships. It is designed for use by school counselors. Practical guidance is offered on how to persuade colleagues that parent outreach is vital to student success; initiate positive contacts and smooth interactions with parents; understand different types of "anxious parents" and work successfully with them; and facilitate such systems as parent education, academic or therapeutic support at home, and involvement of at-risk families. A section entitled "Tips from Teachers" offers ideas and techniques that have worked well for other counselors. Resource A, "Resources for Building Parent Participation," is a list of contacts for additional information. Resource B is "Suggested Readings." (Contains 12 references.) (MKA)