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The System of Care Handbook
Transforming Mental Health Services for Children, Youth, and Families
Edited by Beth A. Stroul, M.Ed. & Gary M. Blau, Ph.D.

"We know that comprehensive, community-based, coordinated care is the gold standard for children, youth, and families. This handbook provides a practical guide for how to implement quality mental health services in communities across the nation."
Rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady and Chair, The Carter Center Mental Health Task Force
"By far the most comprehensive document for those communities beginning the transformation to a System of Care."
Michael F. Elwell, M.S., Director, Children's Services Administration Division, Broward County Board of County Commissioners, Broward County, Florida |
Address the urgent need for individualized, coordinated mental health care with this bookthe only one-stop reference for establishing, evaluating, and improving services and systems of care for children and adolescents with mental health challenges and their families. The new cornerstone of the highly respected Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health series, this comprehensive volume helps administrators, program developers, and clinicians from mental health and partner child-serving systems skillfully navigate every key issue they may encounter on the road to effective service delivery. Weaving all the latest research and best practices into a single accessible handbook, more than 60 expert contributors give readers the in-depth, practical knowledge they need to
- develop comprehensive, community-based, coordinated systems of care for youth with mental health challenges and their families
- avoid duplication and fragmentation of services across mental health and other child-serving systems
- develop individualized care plans for children with complex needs and implement the "wraparound " approach to service delivery
- incorporate evidence-based practices into systems of care
- use smart financing strategies that make the most of multiple funding streams
- ensure the full participation of families and youth in service planning and delivery
- improve services and care coordination across a variety of systemsschools, child welfare, juvenile justice
- work effectively with youth and families from diverse backgrounds and communities
- conduct accurate program evaluation and continuous quality improvement
- use the best professional development strategies to ensure a skilled and dedicated workforce
Throughout the book, extended case studies of children, youth, families, and successful programs take readers beyond the abstract and reveal in vivid detail how high-quality services can transform the lives of children and youthfrom early childhood to their transition to adulthoodas well as their families and caregivers. A must-own compendium of knowledge for anyone involved in shaping the future of mental health services, this book is the new blueprint for systems of care that truly respond to the needs of children, youth and families.
Learn more about the Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health series
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ISBN 978-1-55766-962-9
Paperback 768 pages
6 x 9 2008 / $74.95 Stock# 69629
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Table of Contents
Series Preface
Editorial Advisory Board
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Foreword: FInding a Balance in Systems of Care
Samantha Jo Broderick, M.S.W.
Foreword: Family-Driven Systems of Care
Sandra A. Spencer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: Overview
1: Systems of Care: A Strategy to Transform Children's Mental Health Care
Beth A. Stroul, Gary M. Blau, & Diane L. Sondheimer
2: Evaluation Results and Systems of Care: A Review
Brigitte Manteuffel, Robert L. Stephens, Freda Brashears, Anna Krivelyova, & Sylvia Kay Fisher
3: Integrating the Components into an Effective System of Care: A Framework for Putting the Pieces Together
Sharon Hodges, Robert M. Friedman, & Mario Hernandez
II: Building Systems of Care
4: Building Systems of Care: Critical Structures and Functions
Sheila A. Pires
5: Individualized Services in Systems of Care: The Wraparound Process
Janet S. Walker, Eric J. Bruns, & Marlene Penn
6: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices within Systems of Care
Christine Walrath, Karen A. Blase, & Patrick J. Kanary
7: Financing Strategies for Systems of Care
Sheila A. Pires, Beth A. Stroul, Mary Armstrong, Jan McCarthy, Karabelle A. Pizzigati, Ginny Wood, & Holly Echo-Hawk
8: Sustaining Systems of Care
Beth A. Stroul & Brigitte Manteuffel
III: Recommended Practice Examples: The System Level
9: Partnerships with Families for Family-Driven Systems of Care
Trina W. Osher, Marlene Penn, & Sandra A. Spencer
10: Partnerships with Youth for Youth-Guided Systems of Care
Marlene Matarese, Myrna Carpenter, Charles Huffine, Stephanie Lane, & Kayla Paulson
11: Cultural and Linguistic Competence and Eliminating Disparities
Mareasa R. Isaacs, Vivian Hopkins Jackson, Regenia Hicks, & Ed K.S. Wang
12: Evaluation and Continuous Quality Improvement
Angela Sheehan, Brigitte Manteuffel, Chris Stormann, & Teresa King
13: Monitoring Fidelity to System of Care Principles in Service Delivery
Mario Hernandez, Keren S. Vergon, & John Mayo
14. Social Marketing
Maria J. Rodriguez, Lisa Rubenstein, & Barbara Huff
IV. Recommended Practice Examples: The Service Delivery Level
15. Strengths-Based, Individualized Services in Systems of Care
Knute Rotto, Janet S. McIntyre, & Celia Serkin
16. Improving Services Through Evidence-Based Practice Elements
Jason Schiffman & Christina M. Donkervoet
17. Services for High-Risk Populations in Systems of Care
Bruce Kamradt, Stephen A. Gilbertson, & Margaret Jefferson
18. Services for Young Children and Their Families in Systems of Care
Deborah F. Perry, Roxanne K. Kaufmann, Sarah Hoover, & Claudia Zundel
19. Services for Youth in Transition to Adulthood in Systems of Care
Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark, Nicole Deschênes, DeDe Sieler, Melanie E. Green, Gwendolyn White, & Diane L. Sondheimer
20. School-Based Mental Health Services in Systems of Care
Krista Kutash, Albert J. Duchnowski, Vestena Robbins, & Sandra Keenan
21. Services for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System in Systems of Care
Joseph J. Cocozza, Kathleen R. Skowyra, Joyce L. Burrell, Timothy P. Dollard, & Jacqueline P. Scales
22. Services for Youth in the Child Welfare System and Their Families in Systems of Care
Jan McCarthy, Frank Rider, Caraleen M. Fawcett, & Steve Sparks
23. Services for Youth and Their Families in Culturally Diverse Communities
Mareasa R. Isaacs, Larke Nahme Huang, Mario Hernandez, Holly Echo-Hawk, Ignacio David Acevedo-Polakovich, & Ken Martinez
V. Future Directions for Systems of Care
24. Workforce Implications: Issues and Strategies for Workforce Development
Joan M. Dodge and Larke Nahme Huang
25. Policy Implications: New Directions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Sybil K. Goldman, Beth A. Stroul, Larke Nahme Nahme Huang, and Chris Koyanagi
26. Research and Evaluation Implications: Using Research and Evaluation to Strengthen Systems of Care
Robert M. Friedman and Nathaniel Israel
Index
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