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Collaborations With Health and Mental Health Services
Resources and information about collaboration between public child welfare and health or mental health agencies to improve services for children and families.
Child Health Agency Roles in Health Services for Children in Foster Care: A Policy Brief (PDF - 199 KB)
Halfon, Inkelas, & Flint (2002)
Findings from a survey of administrators from child welfare, mental health agencies, and health-care providers about health services provided to children in foster care.
Collaborations to Meet Children's Mental Health Needs
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (2003)
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Discusses the mental health needs of children in child welfare systems and strategies States can use to expand the availability and effectiveness of mental health services.
Complexity, Conflict and Uncertainty: Issues in Collaboration Between Child Protection and Mental Health Services
Darlington, Feeney, & Rixon
Children and Youth Services Review, 26(12), 2004
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Describes a survey conducted as part of a large mixed-method research project on developing best practice at the intersection of child protection and mental health services.
The Federal Government and Interagency Systems of Care for Children With Serious Mental Disorders: Help or Hindrance? (PDF - 822 KB)
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (2003)
Reports on a survey of State officials about barriers created by Federal Government policies that affect systems of care for children with mental health disorders.
Interagency Collaboration Between Child Protection and Mental Health Services: Practices, Attitudes, and Barriers
Darlington, Feeney, & Rixon
Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 29(10), 2005
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Examines factors that facilitate or hinder interagency collaboration between child protection and mental health services when there is a parent with a mental illness and protection concerns for the children.
Interagency Collaboration: A Guidebook for Child Welfare and Part C Agencies (PDF - 193 KB)
Robinson, Rosenberg, Teel, & Kay (2001)
Explains services offered by Part C and child welfare agencies, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between advocacy groups, public agencies, physicians, mental health service providers, Early Head Start professionals, and Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Making Interagency Initiatives Work for Children and Families in the Child Welfare System
Health Care Reform Tracking Project (2003)
Describes how child welfare systems are participating in collaborative interagency initiatives designed to serve children with serious and complex behavioral health disorders. Includes descriptions of three such collaborations in New Jersey, Indiana, and Massachusetts.
Meeting the Health Care Needs of Children in the Foster Care System
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
Describes promising approaches for meeting the health-care needs of children in the foster care system.
The Need for Interagency Collaboration for Children With Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities and Their Families
Anderson
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 81(5), 2000
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Provides information about commonly used Federal definitions of emotional and behavioral disabilities and describes how variances in these contribute to the inability of agencies to work together. Methods for developing community-level, interagency eligibility criteria are addressed, and a promising Indiana program is highlighted.
The Relationship Between the Child Welfare and Public Mental Health Systems (PDF - 30 KB)
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (2002)
Findings from the first wave of the Caring for Children in Child Welfare study regarding the provision of mental health services within the child welfare system, based on interviews with more than 700 program managers and supervisors from State and county child welfare and mental health agencies.
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