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Funding

Models of Collaboration and Cost Sharing in Transition

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition (2007)

Describes two funding tools increasingly used in collaborative relationships between agencies serving youth with disabilities: blended funding and braided funding. The author states that these tools pool financial resources to maximize outcomes and can be instrumental in maintaining and sustaining effective relationships in transition programming.

Moving On: Federal Programs to Assist Transition-Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions (PDF)

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (2005)

Analyzes 57 federal programs offering resources to assist youth with serious mental health conditions in making the transition from childhood, and often foster care, to independence in adulthood.

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