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Welcome to Denton County Federation of Families!
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July 2011 Bazelon Center released a brief entitled
Left Out, Pushed Out, Placed Out and Worse (click link to read)
... subtitled “How Children with Serious Mental Health Problems Are Treated in our Schools—And How to Fix It.” The paper points out that “the problems—academic failure, overuse of suspension and expulsion, drop-out, bullying, seclusion and restraint—are related, but the solutions are never linked.” Left Out argues for a “thoughtful, comprehensive and systematic strategy,” implemented not just by schools but with the collaboration of government at all levels, including other agencies that serve children.
To Read 7 Steps to Establish a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports and Resources
from the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools,
go to link under IDEA and School Supports in Links
See July 2011 Report
by Disability Rights Texas, the National Center for Youth Law, and Texas Appleseed on
Mental Health Needs of Incarcerated Youth in Texas on Promising Practices page under Juvenile Justice
go to link under IDEA and School Supports in Links
by Disability Rights Texas, the National Center for Youth Law, and Texas Appleseed on
TX INSURANCE DEPARTMENT EXPECTED TO REQUEST DELAY IN IMPLEMENTING HEALTH REFORM CONSUMER PROTECTIONS
See the link in Current NEWS & Issues Look for info coming soon on renewed community collaboration to bring systems of care to Denton!
We will post it here and in the Systems of Care navigation panel!
Texas Legislature
Currently, Texans Care for Children and Disability Rights Texas are resources to get information on the 82 legislative session and its general impact on children. It is likely to be a challenging couple of years for Texas kids generally, and more so for our children.
http://www.texanscareforchildren.org/
http://www.disabilityrightstx.org/
Our Website!
We have been busy supporting kids and families in Denton and have struggled with providing regular updates to this website. We apologize. We will be making changes over Summer 2011 ... Keep checking back and look for new and updated training links in collaboration with the Statewide Family Network!
Texas Uninsured Children
Our Website!
In Harm's Way: True Stories of Uninsured Texas Today, CDF-Texas released the second edition of the report, In Harm's Way: True Stories of Uninsured Texas Children which profiles the stories of uninsured children in 16 families across the state, while also documenting the economic impact of high numbers of uninsured children on local property taxpayers, emergency rooms and businesses.
The stories and images are very moving and show the struggles facing working parents in diverse Texas communities. The report also identifies major problems with the state's eligibility system that processes children's health insurance applications as well as a general lack of affordable coverage options for families who are above the state's income eligibility limit.
The stories and images are very moving and show the struggles facing working parents in diverse Texas communities. The report also identifies major problems with the state's eligibility system that processes children's health insurance applications as well as a general lack of affordable coverage options for families who are above the state's income eligibility limit.
Other links and Info!
Information on the IDEA community of practice website, sharedwork.org
The SharedWork.org website is a project of the IDEA Partnership and the Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action (CSMHA) that is intended to enable the exchange of information and the ability to pursue a shared agenda.
The SharedWork.org website is a project of the IDEA Partnership and the Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action (CSMHA) that is intended to enable the exchange of information and the ability to pursue a shared agenda.
It provides a space for the National Community on School-Based Mental Health to work together and build their community. Through the website, there will be a listserv mechanism that will offer opportunities for public communication, community announcements, summaries of practice group work, and requests for comments.
The website will assist Practice Groups with achieving their goals including: defining critical issues, creating a repository of key online documents, constructing quarterly probes through the listserv with a loop back to the website and the practice group, using the probes to define new shared work, defining and developing a conference strand for the CSMHA’s 11th Annual Conference on School Based Mental Health, and creating at least one tool for the field that is collaboratively developed. Communities of Practice are created when partner organizations collaborate with States, districts, local sites and individuals. These Communities of Practice are focused on advancing policy and practice.
The members learn from one another and take action together in coordinated ways. There are several communities on the shared work site... when you get on the site, click on the National Community of Practice on Collaborative School Behavioral Health and log in.