Highlights From the Field
By: Mary Margaret Salls, DeAnn Lechtenberger, and Laura Atkins
"Our new vision would encourage a combination of the positive behavioral supports and the system of care models, which would include hiring lead parents to serve as parent-coordinators. . . The use of system of care values, with positive behavioral supports helps to insure that those students with the highest needs receive coordinated care using a wraparound approach, which is strength-based and meets the individualized needs of the student and their family."
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Families Matter!
I Want to Hear the Sound of the Children Laughing on a Higher Ground
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. . . "
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Technical Assistance Partnership News
Learning Opportunity Calls for the Month of March:
Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders and Systems of Care
Family Involvement Series: Policy (Part 3 of 4)
Special Topics Column
Bullying has become an increasingly critical national issue as research has revealed that this form of youth violence interferes with student learning and creates a culture of fear and disrespect.
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