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Increasing and Sustaining School Mental Health Services
November 27, 2012 | Program Results Report
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools conducted research and analysis to explore strategies to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of school mental health services and programs.
A Community Outreach and Education Model for Early Identification of Mental Illness in Young People
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
PIER offers a new model for community health education that, in contrast to traditional mental health education, strengthens capacity for proactive engagement of key stakeholders in youth mental health.
Helping Traumatized Refugees and Immigrants Start New Lives
November 20, 2011 | Story
Projects in Boston and Minneapolis, Minn., provided special school-connected mental health services to help refugees and immigrants recover from trauma under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
Youth at Risk: Pittsburgh Association Expands Mental Health Services in Eight Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
April 20, 2009 | Program Results Report
The Community Empowerment Association, a social services organization in Pittsburgh, expanded its capacity to provide community-based services to youth with mental, emotional and behavioral health challenges in eight disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Early Detection and Intervention for the Prevention of Psychosis
September 1, 2008 | Evaluation
This evaluation is of a program designed to replicate the PIER Program, which uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
Indiana's 'Dawn Project' Improves Youth Mental Health Services and Saves Money
June 1, 2000 | Program Results Report
The State of Indiana Office of the Secretary of Family & Social Services, Indianapolis, developed a state-level consortium of agencies to pool mental health treatment dollars to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.
Lone Star State Doesn't Go it Alone in Providing Youth Mental Health Services
June 1, 2000 | Program Results Report
The State of Texas set up the Texas Integrated Funding Initiative to develop local organized service-delivery systems for children with multiple needs that are family based, accountable for outcomes, and maximize all funding sources.
Provider Recognition of Psychosocial Problems in Low-Income Latino Children
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
In 2001–2002, 269 low-socioeconomic status (SES) Latino children aged 2–16 who were seen by primary care providers (PCPs) at a well-child care center were screened for a variety of psychosocial disorders, in order to determine how effective PCPs wer ...
Capturing Intervention Effects Over Time
October 1, 2005 | Journal Article
We analyzed whether a method for identifying latent trajectories—latent class growth analysis (LCGA)—was useful for understanding outcomes for individuals subject to an intervention. We used LCGA to reanalyze data from a published study of mentally ...
Mental Illness Hospitalizations of Youth in Washington State
August 1, 0200 | Journal Article
Overall hospitalization rates for youth decreased during the past two decades as a result, in part, of a shift from inpatient to outpatient management of many conditions.