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Provider Guidelines for Flex Funds Children's Service Council, Broward Co. (Florida) Explains how flexible funds may be used.   April 2009
Providing Services and Supports for Youth Who Are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex or Two-Spirit This brief describes key strategies, policies, and practices for professionals and systems to provide more culturally and linguistically competent care for LGBTQI2-S youth.   June 2012
Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Waiver Demonstration Storytelling Project Harriet S. Bicksler, MA Presents stories from nine States to provide a more personal view of how and why the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, also known as PRTF, demonstration waiver program and initiative has been so important in the lives of the children, youth, and families. This program was developed to prevent or shorten stays in residential treatment settings while improving outcomes for children and youth with serious mental health challenges.   May 2012
Psychological Functioning in Transgender Adolescents Before and After Gender-Affirmative Care Compared With Cisgender General Population Peers Anna I.R.van der Miesen M.D Purpose: Transgender adolescents are at risk for internalizing and externalizing problems, along with high suicidality rates, and poor peer relations. The present study compared transgender adolescents before and after gender-affirmative care with a sample of nonclinical age-equivalent cisgender adolescents from the general population on psychological well-being and aimed to investigate the possible effect of transgender care involving puberty suppression. Conclusions: Transgender adolescents show poorer psychological well-being before treatment but show similar or better psychological functioning compared with cisgender peers from the general population after the start of specialized transgender care involving puberty suppression.   June 2020
Psychosocial Characteristics of Transgender Youth Seeking Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment: Baseline Findings From the Trans Youth Care Study Diane Chen Ph.D Purpose: This study aimed to characterize two developmental cohorts of transgender and nonbinary youth enrolled in the Trans Youth Care Network Study and describe their gender identity–related milestones and baseline mental health and psychosocial functioning. Conclusions: GnRHa cohort youth appear to be functioning better from a psychosocial standpoint than GAH cohort youth, pointing to possible benefits of accessing gender-affirming treatment earlier in life.   June 2021
Psychotropic Medication Management Within Residential Treatment Centers: Physician Opinions About Difficulties and Barriers Annette K. Griffith • Michael H. Epstein • Jonathan C. Huefner This paper examines physicians opinions about the difficulty of managing psychotropic medications for youth in residential treatment.   August 2013
Psychotropic Medication Use Among New Jersey Children & Youth Norma Rodrigues Kathy Wright Jose Andres Rosario Ziyan Feng This is a data brief that examines the use of psychotropic medications in children and youth.   November 2014
Psychotropic Medication Utilization Parameters for Foster Children A "best practices" guide to ensure the proper use of psychotropic medications for the children in foster care.   December 2010
Public Financing of Home and Community Services for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Selected State Strategies Details public financing mechanisms that states use to pay for intensive home and community services for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances. As schools collaborate with community partners to provide intensive services for youth, understanding new funding structures is key to sustaining these services.   June 2006
Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities Robert B. Greifinger, Ed. Describes the difficulties of providing care in correctional facilities and addressing issues such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and mental illness. (book review)   2007
Putting the Pieces Together: A Toolkit on Developing Early Childhood Systems of Care This toolkit is designed to help facilitate complex system-building efforts by drawing upon the experiences and expertise of communities engaged in this work.   2011
Putting the Pieces Together: Guidebook for Fact-Based Decision Making to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families Elizabeth C. Reveal, Kim Pawley Helfgott Unbundles the “data puzzle” and gives you important basics that will help you more effectively identify, use, and evaluate and monitor practices, services, and outcomes for children, youth, and families involved in a system of care. This practical guide focuses on the data necessary to build virtually every element of the infrastructure of a system of care. With an effective data-driven, decision-making system, you can more easily analyze performance data. In turn, the facts become the key driver for your organization’s quality improvement activities.   October 2012
Qualifications For Healthy Families Project Executive Director Healthy Families Project Executive Director job requirements.  
Quality Healthcare for LGBT People: Understanding the Health Needs of LGBT People, An Introduction This is part 1 of a 4 part webinar series, focusing on terminology and concepts associated with LGBT populations, marginaliazation and discrimation impacts on the health of LGBT people and the disparities they experience.  
Quality Improvement Strategies that Work S. Kukla-Acevedo, S. Hodges, K. Ferreira, J. Mazza The goal of this issue brief is to discuss findings regarding the types of data and data collection procedures systems use to evaluate and monitor their that quality of mental health service delivery to children systems rely on to continually improve the performance. The brief highlights the evaluation activities with serious mental health challenges.   April 2008
Quality Indicators for Family Support Services and Their Relationship to Organizational Social Context S. Serene Olin, Nate Williams, Michele Pollock, Kelsey Armusewicz, Krista Kutash, Charles Glisson, Kimberly E. Hoagwood This study examines quality indicators data collected from 21 child mental health programs that deliver team-based family support services.   2013
Quality Indicators for Multidisciplinary Team Functioning in Community-Based Children’s Mental Health Services Krista Kutash, Mary Acri, Michele Pollock, Kelsey Armusewicz, Su-chin Serene Olin, Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood This study examined the organizational social context in 21 community-based programs serving youth at-risk for out-of-home care due to emotional or behavioral disorders and their families and program performance on five quality indicators of team functioning in teams that included a family support specialist.   2013
Quality Measurement Approaches of State Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Programs This article examines the best measurements to use when assessing Medicaid ACO.   September 2014
Quick Guide for Mental Health Professionals Based on TIP 42: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders Summarizes the information in Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 42 and includes guiding principles on assessment, treatment strategies and models, and substance abuse screening.   2010
Quick Guide for Self-Assessment of Family-Run Organizations in Systems of Care Kathy Lazear, René Anderson, Eloise Boterf This guide examines the necessary elements for developing and sustaining effective family-run organizations in a system of care.   February 2007
REACHING HIGHER: A Curriculum for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers Caring for LGBTQ Youth Reaching Higher was developed by the National Center for Child Welfare Excellence in an effort to reach an improved level of service delivery for LGBTQ youth and their families. The curriculum was developed to increase the competence of any family providing out of home care for youth—foster/adoptive families, kinship care families, guardianship families, or adoptive families. The curriculum is meant to enhance the skills of those providing direct care for LGBTQ youth. The curriculum with some adaptation may also be helpful for those providing care in group homes and residential care facilities.  
RFP: Lead Family Organization ON CARE - Onondaga County System of Care (New York) Sample request for proposals document for working with a lead family organization.  
RFP: Lead Youth Organization ON CARE - Onondaga County System of Care (New York) Sample request for proposals document for developing a lead youth organization.  
RFP: Local Evaluation ON CARE - Onondaga County System of Care (New York) Sample request for proposals document for purchasing evaluation services.  
RFP: Logo and Website Design/Web Hosting ON CARE - Onondaga County System of Care (New York) Sample request for proposals document for purchasing logo and website design services.  


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