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The following covers are links to past issues of the TAPartnership's newsletter. The stories were written by many community members or family members. Each issue links to numerous funding resources, advances in children's mental health, and many other resources useful to you. Our hope is to make this as useful as possible. So if you want to write for us, or share something you feel your community does well, contact us at tapartnership@air.org. Communities from TA Partnership Regions I, II, III and V are featured in this month's Highlights from the Field. The articles provide information about innovative and promising activities from the system of care communities around the country in the hopes that communities can learn from their peers. Featured practices from communities this month include the Long Branch, New Jersey's Team Jump Off, South Carolina’s Youth Net System of Care's annual anti-gang conference, Chicago System of Care's Beyond Measure youth organization, and San Francisco’s Children’s System of Care’s Family-Driven, Youth-Guided Care Mini Grants Read this month's Highlights from the Field column. “As a professional, partnering with families requires recognizing that all of us are members of families. This means working with families in the same way that we would want someone to work with our own families and ourselves.” Read about working with families from the perspective of a professional in a new System of Care site in this month's Families Matter! article. Communities from TA Partnership Regions II, III and V are featured in this month's Highlights from the Field. The articles provide information about innovative and promising activities from the system of care communities around the country in the hopes that communities can learn from their peers. Featured practices from communities this month include the Sarasota Partnership for Children’s Mental Health's evaluation team, Columbia River Wraparound's community data feedback reports, and four local communities fueling statewide systems of care in Missouri. Read this month's Highlights from the Field column.
The first iteration of this new semi-monthly feature highlights the emerging work of Youth M.O.V.E. National, a youth-led organization committed to advocating policy change for youth with mental health challenges at the local, State and national level. Read the Youth Matter! article. Special Feature: Conflict in System of Care: Is it an Issue? Access the December 2007/January 2008 TA Partnership Newsletter here! The TA Partnership Newsletter now features news items, research updates, funding and event opportunities, and system of care resources from each of the eight resource specialties: Child Welfare, Education, Family Involvement, Juvenile Justice, Mental Health, Primary Care, Substance Abuse, and Youth Involvement. Additionally, this month marks the debut of the new Highlights from the Field column, in which the innovative and promising activities of one community from each TA Partnership Region are featured. Access the November 2007 TA Partnership Newsletter here! We as parents and concerned adults should ask ourselves daily. We should be available to one another and inquire to our neighbors, community members and co-workers about our young people to ensure that they are being mentored, educated about life, and given opportunities for them to become the best that they can be. Read more about preventing bullying in this month's Families Matter article. The TA Partnership and Systems of Care lend a helping hand to the city of New Orleans during the 2007 System of Care Community Meeting. Read more about the post-meeting events in this month's Highlights from the Field article. Data indicates that respite care is one of the most needed and least available services for families of children with serious emotional disorders. While some families who have relatives and friends to provide care are able to get a break, respite care is not available in many communities. This article discusses the benefits of respite care for families who have a child with a serious emotional disorder. Read more about the benefits of respite care in this month's Familes Matter! article.
In McHenry County Illinois’ Family CARE community, community leaders take youth involvement seriously—very seriously. In fact, McHenry County Family CARE has reshaped and revitalized its system of care community by tapping into the strengths of their youth. Read more about McHenry County’s initiatives in this month's Highlights from the Field article.
At age 14, Austin appears to be a typical eighth grader—he likes to play basketball and video games, and was enrolled in an after-school horseback riding program. He is an honor roll student, and his mother describes him as compassionate, loyal, and a champion for the “underdog.” Atypically, however, Austin and his family also manage the daily challenges of living with a schizoaffective disorder. Learn more about Austin and his family in this month's Families Matter! article.
Residential treatment centers (RTCs) for children and youth have been attacked for their failure to demonstrate a consistently positive impact on the lives of their clients. This month’s Family Matters column describes the efforts of one RTC and a family to incorporate wraparound principles and values to help re-unify this single parent and his son. Please read this success story of wraparound implemented through an RTC. View this month's Families Matter! article!
We know that coalition-building has always been key to building effective systems of care, a fact emphasized by the recent Winter 2007 System of Care Community meeting in Atlanta, Georgia and its focus on collaboration and coalition-building. Systems of care are, in fact, defined by a network of inter-agency partnerships sharing visions, strategies, and resources to improve mental health care for children and families. Building on resources discussed and developed during the Atlanta meeting, this month’s Highlights column provides information on how to work with others to advocate for systems change. View this month's Highlights from the Field article.
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We know that integrated primary care and mental health services provide better outcomes for children and families in systems of care. But to achieve this, primary care providers must have the tools and training to know when and how to connect with mental health providers, and visa versa. Take a look at this month’s Highlights from the Field column to see how system of care communities such as Colorado’s Project BLOOM are adapting tools like the 4-Quadrant Clinical Integration Model to guide coordinated planning for integrated services. Click here to read this month's Highlights from the Field article
This month's Highlights from the Field column takes a look at the newly created health care integration project between the local children’s health clinic and Gateways to Success, the community system of care in Greenwood, South Carolina. Project advocates hope that the outcome of this collaboration will relieve some of the stigma clients face when they utilize mental health services, as well as increase access to mental health care, help ensure that mental health concerns are identified and treated earlier, and provide countless other benefits to children and families. Click here to read this month's Highlights from the Field article This month’s Highlights from the Field column visits the experience of Catherine Follett, LICSW, as a former system of care project director for King County, Washington. Though initially “too weary and a bit disenchanted” following her seven years with the grant, Catherine became renewed and clearer about returning to the system of care in a new way after participating in a Washington Courage and Renewal Circle of Trust. Now as a national TA consultant and facilitator and consultant for Washington Courage and Renewal, she is impassioned about helping system of care professionals and family leaders and stays invigorated and committed to helping them with their work. Click here to read this month's Highlights from the Field article
This month’s Families Matter! column features the story of Bill, Nancy, and Ally, a family living with bipolar disorder. Read about Bill and Nancy’s struggle to get adequate diagnosis and treatment for their daughter, Ally. Bill and Nancy discuss their challenges, successes, and advice for other families living with depressive disorders. This story is one of a number of “Family Profiles” available on FamilyAware.org, an online resource hosted by Families for Depression Awareness. Also take a look at this month’s column to find out more about Family Profiles and other resources for families on FamilyAware.org. Click here to read this month's Families Matter! article "Florida’s West Palm Beach is experiencing a significant shift in demographics from a county that was historically White to one that is increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. An influx of Cubans, Jamaicans, East Indians, Haitians, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are among the population groups, who had resided in the Miami metropolitan area, now call this community home. The Federation of Families of West Palm Beach County saw the need to respond to these demographic changes and to create an environment of cultural understanding among its families, youth and children as well as service providers." Click here to read this month's Highlights from the Field article By Lisa Conlan, TA Partnership Family Resource Specialist In this month’s Families Matter! article, Lisa Conlan, TA Partnership Family Resource Specialist, discusses the importance of supporting families of children with serious emotional disturbances by combating stigma and connecting them with resources early and often. She relates the story of a mother who continues to struggle with her child’s mental health challenges without resources or supports from schools or mental health providers. The article discusses risk and protective factors for children and families who face mental health and related challenges. In addition, Lisa encourages readers to develop strategies and approaches to engage families, build trust, and reduce stigma. Click here to read this month's Families Matter! article
By Robyn Boustead, Andrea Blanch, Mary Evans, Roger Boothroyd, and Huey Chen This month’s Highlights from the Field column focuses on the topic of conflict in systems of care. The article discusses how conflict can be destructive to systems of care—by interfering with collaboration and progress—and how it can actually be functional in some circumstances. The article also describes a new study by The University of South Florida to examine sources, impact, and outcomes of conflict in systems of care. Click here to read the April Highlights column
by Morton Sherman In this month's Families Matter! article Morton Sherman describes his daughter’s struggle with severe depression and the important lessons his family has learned through this experience. In the form of a letter to actor Tom Cruise, he shares his daughter’s story and discusses the dangers of stigma surrounding mental illness. Mr. Sherman writes, “When a child breaks a leg, we put a cast on it. When we have a headache, we take aspirin. When the flu season starts to break out, we all run for shots. So must it be for the mental health of our children.” Click here to read the full article
by Vicky McKinney "Suppose you had a brain tumor and needed an operation …would you want someone who had only read about it to perform the surgery, or would you seek an experienced neurosurgeon? Well it is the same in the world of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)." In this month's Families Matter! article, Vicky McKinney writes about effective ways of working and living with FASD. She shares the knowledge acquired through her 12 years working with the FAS Family Resource Institute. Her purpose in writing this article, she says, is to "give you experience from the experts …The Parents!" Click here to read this month's Families Matter! article
Written by William Denihan, Russell S. Kaye, Karen Ols, Beth Dague, and Beth Pfohl In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, two SAMHSA grant projects have come together to identify a common need for increased services for youth with co-occurring disorders and their families. Leveraging their existing grants to obtain additional funding, these projects are now on their way to piloting an integrated care model that better meets the co-occurring mental health and substance abuse needs of the children and families that they serve. Read more>> By A. Nelson In this Families Matter! article, a young woman describes her experiences with "the system," including years spent in psychiatric institutions and group homes. She argues that the "help" she received actually caused harm, and a different approach to services might have benefited her and her family. Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
By Brooke Schewe This Families Matter! article was written by the parent of two children diagnosed with mental health issues. After suffering from a great deal of stress surrounding her children's illnesses, the author learned to control her reactions to the stressors in her life. This article describes the author's reaction to stress and the coping strategies she implemented to help her remain stress-free, pain-free, and optimistic. Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
by Frank Rider MS, ADHS and Hank Radda PhD, Univ. of Phoenix; edited by Leigh Meredith "When you start a problem-solving discussion with a pre-determined position . . . then you deprive yourself of a hundred different options that might meet the same needs, but in a better way." This month's Highlights from the Field discusses ways to "think outside of the box" in order to create needs-based services. The author tells the story of how a child with severe developmental disabilities was able to remain in the care of his family with the help of some creative problem-solving and a small amount of financial assistance. The article describes how similar creative, individualized applications of flexible funds have been cost-effective in contributing to positive outcomes for children and families in Arizona. Click here to read the full Highlights article
by Laura Webber This article addresses the role of family advocates within the children’s mental health system. It explores the research that documents this unique and vital role — families as equal partners — in improving the outcomes for children with emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families.
By Christina Ward I had the rewarding experience of working with one of the most caring, forthright, insightful, and knowledgeable teachers that I have encountered since my son began his schooling. It was by sheer luck that we had the chance to meet and immediately connect, and I feel that all parents and teachers should have this opportunity more often than not. READ MORE>>
By Lisa Conlan, TA Partnership Family Resource Specialist There is a growing need for primary care professionals to increase their understanding of the needs and treatment approaches for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Medical Home Planning Grant provides opportunities for families and the primary care community to work towards increased understanding and partnership. The CATCH grants aim to promote access to ongoing innovative comprehensive care through a medical home for all children with special health care needs. READ MORE>> By Sheila Bell, Karen Hadix, and Virginia Howard (Edited by Leigh Meredith) As people come together to support youth and families, decisions about what to do have to be made and prioritized. Stakeholders such as families, youth, community members, and professionals should be involved in making these decisions. Community evaluation teams (CETs) provide a forum to bring these stakeholders together to work on the evaluation and continuous quality improvement processes of a system of care. READ MORE>> Hillsborough Community Evaluation Team: Implementing Family Driven Evaluation By Lisa Conlan and the Hillsborough Community Evaluation Team The Hillsborough Community Evaluation team is a group of community members who are analytical advocates trained to evaluate systems and services and to make data useful to families and the organizations that serve them. This team provides technical assistance and evaluation services to ensure that the family perspective is part of evaluation and quality improvement for organizations that serve children and families. READ MORE>>
By Lisa M. Brown and Shari D. Morris There are some things that just won't fly. Like an ostrich, family involvement without cultural competence is grounded and flightless. As we began writing this article, we started taking a mental inventory of past and current encounters with families to try to come away with some lessons learned in working with family groups. The result was this article about what flies and what won't with regard to developing cultural competence. Its purpose is to share our experiences and lessons in pursuit of developing more culturally competent family involvement. Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
By Stanley Bernard, Project Director, PARK Project “Tokenism” is one of the most prevalent problems we face as we attempt to create culturally competent systems of care. The mantra of “parents as partners” is a good one and one which all systems of care should follow. Yet once we embrace that mantra, we must recruit parents from a variety of backgrounds to come to the table. Click here to read the full article Building “Grass Roots ” Family Networks By Lisa Conlan “Grassroots” has been defined by Webster's dictionary as “people or society at a local level” and as the foundation or fundamental source for an organization, movement, or activity. “Organize,” according to Webster's, means “to arrange or assemble into an orderly, structured whole” or to “manage or arrange systematically for united or harmonious action.” These dictionary definitions reflect the growing understanding of “grassroots organization” as a movement of individuals who assume leadership roles in their communities, voicing issues and working together to find solutions to community problems. Click here to read the full article
By Rhonda McCormick I am the mom of a handsome 17-year-old young man who was diagnosed at age four with AD/HD, at age eight with bipolar disorder, and then at age ten with a frontal lobe cyst. We have had a long journey through the gamut of doctors, psychiatrists, therapists, and counselors—a journey I had never before been on—but I have found out that, without the help of our family and friends, we could not have made it this far. And, things are looking up! Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
By Linda Watts (as told to Leigh Meredith) For the past 9 years, West Virginia's KidsCare Assessment Team has made it their mission to treat kids in state and, if possible, at home. Established in the fall of 1995 in the twelve county area of the southwestern West Virginia, KidsCare is now part of West Virginia's Region II mental health system-of-care, the Mountain State Family Alliance (MSFA). KidsCare provides a key component of the system-of-care process, helping to determine and establish the most effective care in the least restrictive environment. Click here to read more about West Virginia's KidsCare Assessment Team Mountain State Family Alliance: Three Stories "Twenty-three years ago I was a young mother on public assistance, in a failing marriage and struggling to make ends meet. The 'system' at that time did not support my efforts to help myself, but reduced my benefits because I had qualified for federal funding to help get my degree. After I graduated, met my wonderful husband of 15 years, and went on with my life, I was glad to have all that behind me. I never imagined that 18 years later I would again be asking for help. . ." Read the rest of "Lori's Story" and two other stories from family members in the Mountain State Family Alliance
By Ashley "The title of this essay tells the story of my life, a life of depression. My life doesn't consist of crying and weeping, so don't let the movies fool you. I am not crazy. My life consists of mood swings and food. Being depressed is like being pregnant; you eat, you sleep, you laugh, you cry, you sweat, you get angry, and then you continue this process all day long."
By: By Sarah Davidon, Director, Project BLOOM; Kathy Watters, Director, Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs; James Ledbetter, Medical Consultant, Health Care Program for Children with Special Needs; and Cordelia Robinson, Director, JFK Partners "The word “collaboration” is used perhaps more than any other when describing the needs, goals, and objectives of seamless systems of care. Our constant struggle as system of care community developers is to link policy and practice and communicate consistently and effectively among systems. How can we get all stakeholders involved? Once we do, how can we empower them to make system-wide changes and ensure that their resources are available to the greater community?" Click here to read the full Highlights article
By: Alice Davidson What does “family driven” really mean? How will we know when it is being practiced? Click here to find out the answers to these questions
By: Liz Marucheau and Rosa Ana Lozada-Garcia In this month's article, we reconnect with the San Diego System of Care Wraparound Training Academy to see the advances they have made in sustaining their promising practice in systems of care. Click here to read the full Highlights article
By Peter Metz, M.D., Principal Investigator for Worcester Communities of Care "Worcester Communities of Care promotes a different emphasis in child and adolescent psychiatric evaluation. We have shifted from a traditional disease/deficit-based model to a strength-based, family-centered, systems-oriented model that exists within a system of care. We work toward this model by attending to strength-based and culturally competent orientations within traditional psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and family systems theory as well as by emphasizing the values of principles of the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP)"
"The specific traumatic and tragic events that have happened to my family over the past years occurred against a backdrop of historic, multi-generational trauma. One cannot escape the lineage of loss that accompanies being a Native American. Historical trauma is not an abstraction; it is trauma handed down from one generation to the next; it is trauma rippling through a people. . . "
By Todd Williams, Agency Liaison, and Angela Wessell Ph.D., Project Director for Missouri Show-Me Kids The Missouri Show-Me Kids System of Care (SOC) community focuses on providing a variety of high-quality transitional services to our youth with co-occurring mental health disorders and developmental disabilities and their families. We have identified four critical components to help these youth transition from child to adult services and from school to work. The four components are: 1) youth and family voices, 2) specialized care management, 3) natural supports within the community, and 4) interagency partnerships.
"As a parent, I had no clue about how to navigate the juvenile justice system. It is painful enough to see your child handcuffed and riding off in a police car, but then dealing with getting my daughter her medication was another level of frustration and anguish. When the system locks your child up, they lock you up too. . ." Click here to read this woman's story A Team Effort—Collaboration in Texas "While many states across the country have more than one SOC in their state, Texas is one of the few states to form a partnership among three diverse SOC communities. In this article, we will share with you how we began our partnership and our “lessons learned”—the benefits and challenges of working together as a team. . ." Click here to read the full Highlights article
"D.C. CINGS' Youth Advisory Council, Youth Anticipating Change (YAC), was created to advise District child-serving agencies and organizations in the development of a system of care responsive to the needs of young people and their families. . . Five youth from the YAC came together to create a CD of poems, songs, interviews, and role-plays. The CD titled OUR SIDE—D.C. Youth Speak Out about the Police provided youth a chance to voice their opinions without fear of retribution from law enforcement. . ." Click here to read the full Highlights article The Richness of Family Support "Today’s column takes a walk back in time, before television existed, a time when young farm boys lied about their age to get into the Navy, a time when a young woman had only to put fifty cents into a machine in front of the gas station to obtain a driver’s license. . ." Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
By Donna Marto "I am sitting here in a room full of Public Service Administrators and Social Service Providers listening. They so want to do the right thing for children. The memories start to creep in…the memories of the child me, the memories of Tina, Silvia, Wilma, Oscar and his brother, and the other faces with names I can’t remember but I remember them. It’s been over thirty years, years of drug use, then years of therapy with years of layering myself to keep people away, and still they won’t go away. The higher me comes into my thoughts, “They never will, They MAKE YOU who you are!” So now we are sitting here together. They are using words like “normalization,” “permanency,” “home settings” and the memories come pouring in—those same words were used so many years ago. . . " Click here to read this woman's story
by Keva White, Youth Coordinator and Project Director of the Social Marketing Campaign for Burlington County The Burlington Partnership is producing a 30-minute informational video that will be available to the public in spring 2004. This video attacks stigma by presenting real people with mental health challenges and their families, describing the care available in Burlington County, and offering hope. Read more>> A Moment in Time: "We were outraged, but not surprised. The school system never bothered to understand the needs of our family, the learning style of our son. They did not take time to train their faculty on how to handle students in the Autism Spectrum (Aspergers Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Autism). We wondered how we would ever become full partners with the school." Read more>> By Kent Gilbert, Hastings Fire Chief, and “More than half of all children have played with fire by the time they reach age 13." This frightening fact has led fire stations across Nebraska to implement the Juvenile Fire Setters Program. Read more>>
by: Tracy Johnson, Tri-county Family Coordinator and President of the New Frontier for Families and Pat Baker, Lead Family Representative The Federal Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) funded the Utah Frontiers Project in 1998. Our program is built on a 1993 initiative known as Families, Agencies, and Communities Together (FACT) that modeled system-of-care principles.
by Kanu Sheth and Veree Jenkins Family HOPE received federal funding from the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) in September 1999 to implement a system of care for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families who reside in the central corridor of West Palm Beach, Florida. We serve a culturally diverse population of children and families. When children enter our system of care, we gather information about each family’s cultural traditions and beliefs to incorporate them into our service plans and provisions. However, as we enter the fourth year of our grant, we realize how important it is for our children and families to respect not only their own culture but also the cultures of those around them. Read more>>
Evidence-Based Practices in a System of Care in Contra Costa, Califonia by Dr. Pat Harrington and Dr. Jon Stenson The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) awarded Contra Costa a grant for Spirit of Caring in October of 1999. Spirit of Caring serves children and families in Contra Costa County, California, a diverse and large county covering 730 square miles. Of the nearly one million residents of the county, 237,000 are children. We serve approximately 2,700 of these children through assessments and have regular follow up with approximately half of them. We are committed to helping our families and children overcome the problems and difficulties that they bring to our clinic. Read More>> A Better Way to Live? by Carolyn Nava I pressed myself to remember whether once the transplant failed, she became sullen and withdrawn. Honestly, I can say I have rarely heard Deli complain about her lot in life. " Click here to read the full Families Matter! article
As I look at the title of this column, a few things come to mind. First, there is this business about Families. What do we mean by this term Families? We have all talked about the fact that we are family members with children with special needs: Sacred, Emotional, Divine Children. We come in all shapes and all sizes: nuclear families; extended families; same gender families; ethnically, culturally, geographically, religiously, and economically diverse families. Read More>> Family Involvement in a System of Care Community in San Francisco
This month we begin a series of Highlights columns that addresses four central themes in successful systems of care: family involvement, cultural competence, evidence-based practice, and sustainability. July’s article focuses on sustainability. To write it, we invited the director of a system of care program that managed to increase its state funding in an era of massive budget cuts and retrenchment. This is her story. Read it>>>
Calling All Fathers: How to Find Dads and Get Them to Work with you. by Micheal Kelly Think things have REALLY changed with our culture’s attitudes toward fathers? Try this exercise: go to any school in the country and ask to see its emergency cards. Look to see who is listed to contact first in case of an emergency with that family’s son or daughter. It’s invariably the child’s mom. Then ask the school staff how often they call the dads first. Read more>>> Utah’s Therapeutic Day Treatment Program for Preschoolers By Dr. Kristina Hindert, Therapeutic Day Treatment Director, and Charles Seldin, Development and Community Relations Director | Utah’s Children’s Center is a private, non-profit resource providing therapeutic treatment to preschool age children with emotional and behavioral challenges. Founded in 1962, the agency is the only one of its kind in Utah and the largest in the United States. The Center is used as a resource for state and national health authorities in the field of early childhood mental health. Read it>>>
This Month in Families Matter! WRAPAROUND THE MENNONITE WAY as told by Luanne Southern. This is the story of a family—my family—and the community in which my two sisters and I grew up. I have always been proud of my Mennonite heritage and of the hard work and honesty for which my culture is known. Read More>>>
Families Matter! Some Thoughts on Advocacy: What It is and Why We Need It Advocacy is not a dirty word. Advocacy is not dangerous or subversive. Advocacy is an honorable and essential part of community life, especially in a democracy.more>>> Infrastructure for Family Involvement in Systems of Care Since the inception of the values and principles of systems of care over fifteen years ago, the concept of "family involvement" has become widely accepted in children's mental health. more>>> This Month's Highlights from the Field The San Diego Children’s System of Care Wraparound Training Academy: A System Reform and Sustainability Strategy By: Liz Marucheau Children's System of Care Training Coordinator, Children’s Mental Health Services and Rosa Ana Lozada-Garcia Assistant Deputy Director, Children’s Mental Health Services | In 1995, San Diego Children’s Mental Health Services, through system of care reform, created a more integrated, comprehensive, and family-focused system for coordinating care and service delivery.more>>> 
How to Keep Going when Change is Slow This month examines advocacy and how families can keep going when change is slow you feel like nothing is ever happening and all you are doing is helping your child. Read the Story>>> School-Based Mental Health Services: The Kentucky Experience
Parent Advocacy 101 The Peach State Wraparound Initiative is a 6-year federal grant that was awarded to the Rockdale County Board of Commissioners and implemented by the GRN (Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton counties) Community Service Board. The purpose of this federal grant is to establish a system of care in Rockdale County. Read the Story>>> 
Coping with Stress and Violence. The recent "sniper" shootings have raised anxiety levels in communities throughout Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. For some residents, the sniper incidents may have had a more direct impact than the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Traumatic events such as the 9/11 attacks and the sniper shootings underscore the need for individuals to build coping skills. This is especially true for children. By building coping skills now, individuals may be better able to deal with a traumatic situation if and when an event occurs. Read the Story>>>
Rembering Senator Wellstone
Success Story of a Sustainable Program: The Child Welfare Diagnostic and Evaluation Unit (D&E) of the Jefferson County Community Partnership. "The Jefferson County Community Partnership (JCCP) in Alabama has been a funded System of Care community since 1997 and soon will graduate. However, its Diagnostic and Evaluation units (D&E) will continue beyond the federal grant period because of the buy-in they have built on the basis of their successful relationships with the child welfare, education, and juvenile justice agencies in Birmingham, Alabama." Read the Story>>>
The Gift In many cultures of the world, it is believed that a child is a precious gift of life extending our mortality. From the moment of conception, the gift begins the journey. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has brought many changes to behavioral healthcare.
School-Based Mental Health Services: The Kentucky Experience By Dr. Tom Crotty, Project Coordinator, Bridges Project of Kentucky Here in Eastern Kentucky, we are going into the fifth year of our CMHS grant. For the past four years, the Bridges Project of Kentucky has been working on a school-based mental health outreach project.Read the Story>>>
A Vision of Primary Care
Westchester County uses a system of 11 community based Networks as both the single point of access to our system-of-care and as the beginning point for our strength based assessment and service planning processes. Read the Story>>>
Being Culturally Competent when working with young people It is essential that the work you do with young people responds to their needs. This is not as hard as you might think. Planning Cultural Competence Training in Contra Costa County by Lisa Booker, TA Coordinator
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Highlights from the Field
Families Matter!
Highlights from the Field
Youth Matter! Introduces Youth M.O.V.E
New for 2007-2008
How are our children?
TA Partnership and Systems of Care Lend a Helping Hand to the City of New Orleans
How Respite Care can Enrich the Lives of a Family
Paving the Way: Youth Involvement in McHenry County Family CARE
The System of Care Journey for Kim and Austin
Critical Connections: Cuyahoga County's Online Information Sharing
Cyber-Bullying
Tools for Success: Building Provider Competencies for Integrated Health Care
A New Kind of Give and Take: Rhode Island's Time Bank Networks 
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