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Avoiding Unnecessary Placements through the use of Substitute Care Funds Our Kids, Miami-Dade/Munroe Counties (Florida) Describes procedures regarding the spending flexibility within dependency placement programs granted by s. 409.165, Florida Statues (F.S.).   July 2005
Away From Home Youth Experiences of Institutional Placements in Foster Care Sarah Fathallah & Sarah Sullivan Think Of Us led a team of seven researchers who conducted a study to understand the perspectives, attitudes, and experiences of young people with recent histories in institutional placements, and to understand their beliefs around reforming or ending institutional placements. The goal of this report is to share the stories and insights of youth with lived experience that surfaced during the study.  
BLOOM Logic Model Project BLOOM System of care logic model.   2007
Background Checks and Family Partners Presents solutions for how to hire well-qualified family members when personal histories revealed during background checks may present problems.  
Be True Be you LGBTQ Booklet Written to youth and young adults to provide an overview of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, coming out, LGBTQ+ and mental health, self-care, mental health services, and rights.  
Becoming A Medicaid Provider of Family and Youth Peer Support - Considerations for Family Run Organizations Jane Kallal et. Al This resource provides guidance to family run organizations that are considering whether to become Medicaid providers of family and youth peer support. It uses examples from three states – Arizona, Maryland, and Rhode Island – to illustrate key aspects of this decision and process in becoming a Medicaid family and youth peer support provider.   February 2014
Becoming a Medicaid Provider ofFamily and Youth Peer SupportConsiderations for Family Run Organizations Jane Kallal, Jane Walker, Lisa Conlan Lewis, Dayana Simons, Jessican Lipper, Sheila Pires This resource provides guidance to family run organizations that are considering whether to become Medicaid providers of family and youth peer support. It uses examples from three states – Arizona, Maryland, and Rhode Island – to illustrate key aspects of this decision and process in becoming a Medicaid family and youth peer support provider.   February 2014
Behavioral Health Treatment Needs Assessment Toolkit for States Provides States and service agencies with detailed information on the latest behavioral health statistics as well as step-by-step instructions on generating future projections regarding the needs that will need to be addressed.   2013
Being Two Spirit: A Brief Explainer They’ve gone by a lot of names. They’ve endured colonialism and hatred. But they are still here and they are amazing. Here is a brief history of queer Native culture.   2017
Bending the Mold: An Action Kit for Transgender Students This toolkit is designed to assist transgender, gender non-conforming, questioning, and ally students to make school a safer place. Resources include how to advocate for change as well as an extensive list of resources to help you connect with the transgender community and find support.  
Benefits of Systems of Care for Child Welfare This document describes the common goals and shared values between systems of care and child welfare, explains why child welfare should be involved in systems of care, and lists the benefits to child welfare from participating as part of a system of care.  
Best Practices for Addressing The Mental Health Needs Of Children And Youth In Schools Sandy Keenan, Trina Osher Provides information to schools for creating a learning environment suitable for youth with mental health needs.   2007
Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model, Second Edition Provides guidance on how communities can best address an existing or emerging youth gang problem, and includes a summary of findings from an independent evaluation of OJJDP’s Gang Reduction Program.   October 2010
Better Solutions for Youth with Mental Health Needs in the Juvenile Justice System Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Collaborative for Change: A Training, Technical Assistance and Education Center and a member of the Models for Change Resource Center Partnership This article examines how widespread the challenge of mental health in America's juvenile justice system is, the scientific breakthroughs that can help youth with mental health needs, how communities can adopt some of these solutions, and what can be done.  
Better Together: Improving Local Systems to Improve Afterschool H.J. Cummins Describes recommendations from a gathering during which representatives from 57 U.S. cities discussed how to push for better, more accessible afterschool programs. Recommendations include developing high-quality, community-wide “afterschool systems” and addressing the needs of all students to improve academic and social outcomes.   2013
Beyond Random Acts Family, School, and Community Engagement as an Integral Part of Education Reform Heather B. Weiss, M. Elena Lopez, and Heidi Rosenberg Considers policy design and data systems as tools to engage families and schools, especially related to the role of families in the transformation of low-performing schools.   2010
Blended Funding Logic Model Detroit-The Southwest Community Partnership (Michigan) Logic model for the goal of moving to flexible funding and individualized services to improve outcomes.  
Blending or Braiding Funding Across Systems Detroit-The Southwest Community Partnership (Michigan) Outlines outcomes and goals related to flexible funding.  
Breaking the Silence: LGBTQ Foster Youth Tell Their Stories Breaking the Silence: LGBTQ Foster Youth Tell Their Stories - Resource CD To ensure the most effective use of Breaking the Silence, each DVD comes packaged with a CD containing over 25 training tools and resources. These materials not only provide additional background and information for trainers who screen the DVD, but are meant to be distributed to those who are watching the DVD to supplement their knowledge and give them tools to put into action. Some resources will also assist administrators or managers in transforming their agencies into ones that have an organizational culture that is inclusive of LGBT youth.  
Bridging the Cultural Divide in Health Care Settings National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown Univeristy Center for Child and Human Development, Georgetown University Medical Center. Manual regarding the use of cultural brokers in the healthcare setting.   Spring/Summer 2004
Brief Summary of House Bill 1756 Dawn Project Replication Dawn Project (Indiana) Law to provide start-up funding for new system of care sites.  
Budget Spreadsheet TA parnership for child and family mental health Sample Cultural and Linguistic Competence Budget Spreadsheet.  
Budget Template and Users Guide The Excel spreadsheet provides a budget template to enter estimated costs for anticipated cultural and linguistic competence (CLC) activities.  
Building Community Partnerships: What's Important for Fatherhood Programs? Describes the financial, organizational, and human resources benefits that community partnerships can offer fatherhood programs and offers tips for identifying and leveraging such partnerships.   October 2009
Building Community Partnerships: What's Important for Fatherhood Programs? (PDF) This brief discusses the benefits of community partnerships and provides tips to practitioners for identifying and leveraging such partnerships.   October 2009


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