These links represent a rich collection of resources for best practices in children's mental health today.

See Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health in Portland's Focal Point magazine on Resilience and Recovery as applied to Children's Mental Health.

Systems of Care

• National Wraparound Initiative
• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
• UCLA School Mental Health Project
• Center for School Mental Health - University of Maryland
• Research and Training Center Discussion of Systems of Care in 20 years

See the Alliance link on this site for more systems of care documents and information on the Denton County Systems of Care initiative, Alliance for Children and Families of Denton County

Families and Peer Professional Roles

• Texas Mental Health Consumers Consumer Operated Services
• Peer to Peer Resource Center
• UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration
• Emerging New Practices in Peer Support 2003

Juvenile Justice

• State Juvenile Justice Profiles
• Alive at 25
• Juvenile Justice Journal article: Causes and Correlates
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Evidence Based Practices

SAMSHA EBP Toolkits
SAMHSA and its Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) have introduced six Evidence-Based Practice Implementation Resource Kits
This is the SAMHSA Model Programs Site.
The first page lays out their definitions of categories of evidence based programs.
You will notice that the language is just a bit different on the various sites.

This is the 1999 Strengthening America's Families Project which rated programs based on the evidence that has been gathered regarding how effective they are in preventiong delinquency.

Read the overview in the first link and then take the second link to view their rating of programs.
www.strengtheningfamilies.org
Program List

Blueprints Project
This is Blueprints for Violence Prevention. Scroll down to the bottom to click links to model and promising programs.

http://nirn.fmhi.usf.edu/resources/publications/Monograph/
This is the National Implementation Research Network with the University of South Florida monograph on Implementation Research....

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide
To help communities identify evidence-based delinquency prevention and intervention strategies that meet their specific needs, the Model Programs Guide offers several ways to search:

• Program category.
• Program type.
• Target population and setting.
• Problem area.
• Offender group.
• Program strategies.

Research and Training Center Discussion of Use of Strengths

Research and Training Center Discussion on Measurement of Strengths

Transition Services for Youth Receiving Child Mental Health Services

This article discusses national data from state-level child mental health administrators on the transition services available for youth receiving child mental health services. The authors conclude that the majority of youth do not receive the services required to support their transition to adulthood, and they recommend ways to address this important issue. To access article, first link to site at: http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/pgDataTrends.shtml, then click on #119 for a PDF version of the article.

 

America's Children:
Parents Report Estimated 2.7 Million Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems
A special feature in the report America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005 shows that nearly 5 percent — or an estimated 2.7 million children — are reported by their parents to suffer from definite or severe emotional or behavioral difficulties, problems that may interfere with their family life, their ability to learn, and their formation of friendships.

These difficulties may persist throughout a child's development and lead to lifelong disability, including more serious illness, more difficult to treat illness, and co-occurring mental illnesses.

Access information online at:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/ childhood_indicators.cfm.