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

Families and Peer Professional Roles

• Youth MOVE National
• National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• North Carolina Families United
• Emerging New Practices in Peer Support 2003
• Alamo Area Youth MOVE (San Antonio)

Juvenile Justice

• July 2011 - Report on Mental Health Needs of Incarcerated Youth in Texas

  by Disability Rights Texas, the National Center for Youth Law, and Texas Appleseed, “Thinking Outside the Cell: Alternatives to Incarceration for Youth with Mental Illness,” features three case studies of youth placed in the Corsicana Residential Treatment Center, the TYC facility designated for youth with serious mental illness or emotional disturbance. The report also features effective community-based intervention strategies currently being implemented in Texas and other jurisdictions to reduce the incidence of youth with mental health needs in the juvenile justice system. Policy recommendations concerning youth with mental illness involved in the juvenile justice system included. 

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

Evidence Based Practices

National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
SAMHSA's national registry

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.

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.