Title	File	Author	Description		Article Date
Resources for Educators			These resources share best practices on creating a safe zone, supporting transgender and gender non-conforming youth, and creating and sustaining a Gay-Straight Alliance at schools.
Resources on Collaboration between Mental Health and Child Welfare Systems		Kim Pawley Helfgott	This document offers links to many resources on the mental health and child welfare systems, including resources about the mental health needs of children and youth in the child welfare system, how to meet the mental health needs of these youth, interagency collaboration between the two systems, and training for providers/caregivers.		2008
Results-Based Public Policy Strategies for Promoting Children’s Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Health			Informs families and policymakers about data, recommendations, and strategies to promote children’s behavioral, emotional, and mental health. Information about implementation, financing, and accountability of children’s mental health policies enhance the value of this resource.		March 2012
Rethinking District Budgets to Unify and Sustain a Critical Mass of Student and Learning Supports at Schools			Suggests that the climate of budget cuts creates the necessity for strategies to unify and sustain approaches to student and learning supports in schools. Includes State examples of braiding resources across categories and working toward overlapping goals.		March 2012
Rethinking Special Education for a New Century		Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew J. Rotherham, and Charles R. Hokanson, Jr.,	Examines the current practices of special education, and expresses a need for improvement.		May 2001
Return on Investment in Systems of Care for Children With Behavioral Health Challenges		Beth A. Stroul, M.Ed., Sheila A. Pires, M.P.A., Simone Boyce, Ph.D., Anya Krivelyova, M.A., and Christine Walrath, Ph.D.	This report documents what is known to date about the return on investment, specifically cost savings, from systems of care, summarizing data from national studies and from states and communities that have produced this type of information		April 2014
Return on Investment in Systems of Carefor Children With Behavioral Health Challenges:A Look at Wraparound		Beth Stroul	Examines the return on investment in regards to poilicy and resource decisions.		January 2015
Review of State Medication Policies/Guidelines Regarding Psychotropic Medications in Public Schools		Joseph B. Ryan • Antonis Katsiyannis • Mickey Losinski • Robert Reid • Cynthia Ellis	This paper reviewed existing state medication policies and guidelines to assess the level of guidance currently provided to school staff.		August 2013
Risk Assessment in Juvenile Justice: A Guidebook for Implementation		Gina M. Vincent, Ph.D., Laura S. Guy, Ph.D., Thomas Grisso, Ph.D.	The purpose of this guide is to provide a strucuture for jurisdictions, juvenile probabtion or centralized statewide agencies striving to implement risk assessment or to improve their current risk assessment practices.		November 2012
Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Gang Affiliation Among High-Risk Youth: A Public Health Approach		Dawn Delfin McDaniel	Examines gang participation among America’s youth in order to identify risk and protective factors and provide more direction to communities to prevent gang participation and violence.		January 2012
Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Gang Affiliation Among High-Risk Youth: A Public Health Approach		Dawn Delfin McDaniel	Examines gang participation among America’s youth in order to identify risk and protective factors and provide more direction to communities to prevent gang participation and violence.		January 2012
Role of the PLT/Executive Committee		Bridgeport PARK Project (Connecticut)	Describes the Project Leadership Team and executive committee.