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Serving Everyone at the Table: Strategies for Enhancing the Availability of Culturally Competent Mental Health Services (2009)

This monograph aims to increase awareness of the impact of culture on the availability of mental health services with the goal of improving services for culturally/racially diverse families in ways that reduce mental health disparities. The monograph is second in a series outlining successful strategies for increasing access, availability, and utilization of services at the organizational and direct service levels. Availability strategies were identified through interviews conducted with personnel from 12 organizations that met study criteria.

Asset-Based Approaches for LGBTQI2-S Youth and Families in Systems of Care (2009)

Families with a parent, child, or youth who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) or transitioning navigate varying levels of acceptance and support when accessing and utilizing needed services within the mental health system. A new monograph offers a public health approach for communities to meet the needs of these families.

Response to Intervention and the Pyramid Model (2009)

This publication was produced by the Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U. S. Department of Education (H326B070002).

Examining the Relationship between Family-Run Organizations and Non-Family Organization Partners in Systems of Care (2008)

This publication was produced by Study 6: Examining the Role of Family Organizations in Developing Family Voice in Systems of Care of the Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health. This study investigates how family voice, as represented through family-run organizations, contributes to the context of the overall mental health system, and the implementation of an effective system of care.

Florida's Children at a Glance, 2008 (2008)

The 2008 edition of Florida's Children at a Glance has been produced by the Center for the Study of Children's Futures to be used as a quick reference to current, comprehensive data. State and County information compiled from 2006/07 data is included and provides specifics on population by age, health and well-being, birth indicators, juvenile justice, and education.

Evaluation Brief on the Status and Activities Related to Florida’s IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project: First 18 Months (2008)

The purpose of the IV-E Waiver evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of expanded child welfare services and supports in improving permanency and safety outcomes for children in or at risk of entering out-of-home placement.

Creating a Front Porch: Strategies for Improving Access to Mental Health Services (2008)

This monograph shares results of interviews conducted with personnel from selected organizations and focuses on key practices that were reported to increase accessibility of mental health services for underserved populations. It includes a description of each of the target populations served by the participating study sites, as well as information about the history and context of, and general service delivery information for each organization.

The Role of Mental Health Services in Promoting Safe and Secure Schools (2008)

This guidebook is part of a series developed by the Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence and the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) to provide resources, tools, and guidance for creating safe school settings and involving the community in supporting students of all ages.

The Relationship of Suicide Death to Baker Act Examination, Client Characteristics and Service Use Patterns (2008)

This study was aimed at providing a better understanding of the Medicaid funded services and the extent to which they were used by those who died by suicide, as well as an examination of service patterns and how they were related to this negative outcome. The goal of this study was to identify these issues in a way that will allow the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to use Medicaid funds in such a way that contributes to reductions in suicides.

What Works: System Development Strategies Across Communities - System Implementation Issue Brief #5 (2008)

“What works?” “How do stakeholders create a system of care?” “How are systems working in other places?” Communities contemplating system-of-care implementation find that there are no clear-cut answers to these deceptively simple questions. This issue brief will provide cross-site analyses of critical system implementation factors identified by stakeholders within each of the six exemplary communities participating in this research study, and will offer clues around common themes identified at each study site.

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