TOPIC: Systems of Care

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books, Monographs, and Chapters
• Best Practices in the Use of Learning Supports Leadership Teams to Enhance Learning Supports
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement
• Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
• Mapping a School's Resources to Improve Their Use in Preventing and Ameliorating Problems
• Want to Work With Schools? What is Involved in Successful Linkages?

Introductory Packets
• Affect and Mood Problems in School Aged Youth
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Information Resources and Practice Notes
• About Art Therapy and Schools
• About Positive Psychology
• Agencies Addressing Problems of Children and Youth: Pursuing a Continuum of Intervention and Working with Schools
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Mapping & Analyzing Learning Supports (A School Improvement Tool for Moving Toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports)
• Schools, Families, and Community Working Together: Building an Effective Collaborative
• Why Current Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents may be Inadequate

Training
• Case Management in the School Context
• Student & Family Assistance Programs & Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Guides to Practice
• Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

Reports
• A Look at California Assembly Bill 114: Transition of Special Education and Related Services Formerly Provided by County Mental Health Agencies
• Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources, & Policy Considerations

Continuing Education
• Mental Health in Schools: New Roles for School Nurses

Newsletter
• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game
• Lessons Learned: Systems of Care, Systems of Early Intervention, Systems of Prevention
• Connecting Counseling, Psychological, & Social Support Programs to School Reform

Resource Aid Packet
• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role

School-Community Partnerships
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Technical Aid
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Articles
• Beyond Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment : The Concept of Least Intervention Needed and the Need for Continuum of Community-school Programs/Services
• Clinical Psychology: Beyond psychopathology an clinical interventions.
• Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
• Confidentiality: Competing Principles, Inevitable Dilemmas
• Mental Health in Schools: A Shared Agenda
• Mental health in schools and system restructuring.
• Mental health in schools: Moving forward
• Mental health in schools: Expanded opportunities for school nurses.
• Mental health in the schools: Promising directions for practice.
• A policy and practice framework to guide school-community connections.
• Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model.
• Shaping the future of mental health in schools
• System reform to address barriers to learning: Beyond school-linked services and full service schools
• Toward Ending the Marginalization of Mental Health in Schools

Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet
• "Accountability and Quality Assurance in Managed Care Systems" (2003) M. Armstrong. Health Care Reform Training Project: Promising Approaches for Behavioral health Services to Children and Adolescents and Their Families in Managed Care System
• Care Coordination: Integrating Health and Related Systems of Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs
• A call for integrating a mental health perspective into systems of care for abused and neglected infants and young children
• Community Readiness Within Systems of Care: The Validity and Reliability of the System of Care Readiness and Implementation Measurement Scale
• The Hodgepodge Reality: A Qualitative Systematic Review of the Challenges and Barriers in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care Systems
• School Referral of Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances to Systems of Care: Six-Month Clinical and Educational Outcomes
• Students at Enrollment Into Community-Based Systems of Care Characteristics and Predictors of Functioning in School
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Effectiveness of Wraparound Care Coordination for Children and Adolescents
• Systems of Care
• Systems of Care Definitions and Philosophy
• Theory based System of Care

Related Agencies and Websites
• Center for Exceptional Children
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

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