Youth Engagement

• Introduction to the Youth Self-Efficacy Scale/Mental Health and the Youth Participation in Planning Scale (PDF)
• Involving Youth in Planning for Their Education, Treatment and Services: Research Tells Us We Should Be Doing Better (PDF)
• Is Your Organization Supporting Meaningful Youth Participation In Collaborative Team Planning? A Self-Assessment Quiz (PDF)
• Best Practices for Increasing Meaningful Youth Participation In Collaborative Team Planning (PDF)

For more information about youth engagement and youth involvement in systems of care, see the TA Partnership's Youth Involvement section at http://www.tapartnership.org/youth/default.asp.

System of Care Community Peer Support

Communities Formally or Informally Providing Peer Care/Support

Families Reach for Rainbows, Inc. (IN) had a series of shadowing visits with the Georgia Parent Support Network. For information, contact Sue Smith, CEO at susmith@mindspring.com

Recommendations of Possible Peer SupportCurricula/Programs

The following have or may have peer mentoring programs:

• Families Reach for Rainbows, Inc. For information, Craig Andler, the Executive Director can be reached at candler@choicesteam.org
• Project IMPACCT of Lansing Michigan. Contact Malisa Pearson at acmhmalisa@aol.com
  • Malisa also presented at the FFCMH conference on this topic.
• Cuyahoga Tapestry (Cleveland, OH). Contact Teresa King at tking@cuyahogacounty.us
  • Teresa also presented at the FFCMH conference on this topic.

The other presenter at the FFCMH conference for the Saturday presentation related to community peer support was Broward County, Florida's Key Family Contact Beverly Wilkinson. Contact her at beverly@mhabroward.org.

Family Involvement Job Descriptions

• Family Information Specialist (PDF)
• Family Mentoring Coordinator (PDF)
• Parent Partner/Family Mentor (PDF)
• Family Support Specialist (PDF)

Tele-medicine

Arizona has extensive tele-medicine network, including the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, an active participant in that network.The Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority, based in Flagstaff is a great resource for informationg on Arizona's tele-medicine network. They are a national leader in use of tele-medicine for behavioral health services, even making the front page of the Wall Street Journal last spring. Related tele-medicine information is available at http://www.rbha.net/.

Our new community in NW Minnesota, The Children Succeed Initiaitve in northwest Minnesota also uses tele-medicine to provide psychiatric services to clients all the way from Oregon! To find out more information about their tele-medicine programs, contact project director Brenda Anderson at banderson@nwmhc.org and TA Specialist Colleen MacRae at cmacrae@nwmhc.org.