This publication can aid in completing an application for a COPS School-Based Partnerships grant. It provides background on most of the questions in the grant application and several passages are repeated directly from the application. The publication also may be useful to policing agencies and community groups that wish to enhance their problem-solving partnership efforts. The document contains sections concerning: (1) The Problem-Solving Approach (including the SARA model developed in Newport News, VA); (2) Identifying and Selecting a Problem (Scanning); (3) Identifying Stakeholders for the Selected Problem (sample problem involving robbery, fear); (4) Analyzing the Selected Problem; (5) Responding to a Problem; (6) Assessing the Impact on the Selected Problem; and (7) Sample Problem-Solving Initiatives (Gainesville, FL, convenience store robberies; Mankato, MN, park problem; and Redmond, WA, graffiti problem). References, notes