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State and Local Examples: Collaborations With Health and Mental Health Services
State and local examples of collaboration between public child welfare and health or mental health agencies to improve services for children and families.
Arkansas Foster Care: Project for Adolescent and Child Evaluation, May 16-17, 2000 (PDF - 168 KB)
Georgetown University Child Development Center (2000)
Describes a collaboration between the Division of Children and Family Services and a local university's Department of Pediatrics to provide health-care services to Arkansas's foster children.
Assessment and Consultation Team : Riverside County California, September 11-12, 2000 (PDF - 179 KB)
Georgetown University Child Development Center (2000)
Highlights a promising approach for meeting the health-care needs of children in the foster care system in Riverside County, CA, through an interagency collaboration betweenthe county's departments of Mental Health and Public Social Services.
Behavioral Health Screening in a Child Welfare System
Alexander & Kniznik
Protecting Children, 18(3), 2004
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Describes a collaboration between the Behavioral Health System and the Department of Human Services to identify and meet the behavioral health needs of Philadelphia's children in substitute care.
Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Foster Care Program: San Diego County, CA, September 13, 14, & 15, 2000 (PDF - 186 KB)
Georgetown University Child Development Center (2000)
Describes a joint project between the departments of Health Services and Social Services to support a collaboration among public health nurses and social workers to address the health-care needs of foster children in San Diego.
Children's Aid Society and Mount Sinai Medical Center Collaboration: New York, NY, October 4-5, 2000 (PDF - 123 KB)
Georgetown University Child Development Center (2000)
Describes a collaboration between a private child welfare agency and a medical center to provide health-care services to foster children in New York City.
The Outcomes and Costs of an Interagency Partnership to Serve Maltreated Children in State Custody
Swenson, Randall, Henggeler, & Ward
Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 3(4), 2000
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Describes the Charleston Collaborative Project in South Carolina, a collaboration among one private and three State agencies serving maltreated children taken into custody.
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