Provides information for youth serving agencies to improve their relationship between their organization, the youth, and the families with whom they work. Highlights best practices and strategies for engaging youth, developing and evaluating youth-adult partnerships,and building leadership opportunities for youth.
Reviews best practices for engaging families and communities in students’ learning and academic, social, and emotional development.
Designed to solicit guidance from families and youth and to portray the critical issues in children’s mental health policy and service delivery from the perspective of stakeholders in the family and youth movement.
Highlights the definition of family-driven care," and provides guiding principles of family-driven care.
Examines six factors related to the ability of a comprehensive community initiative to generate community-level outcomes and sustain them over time. The six factors include: having a single broker or entity that holds the vision of the change effort; clearly defined roles; alignment among interventions, resources, and geography; meaningful community engagement; competent leadership and staff; and strategic, cross-level relationships.
Provides an introduction of preventive interventions to help assure the health of the population. This PowerPoint presentation focuses on increasing realization that the majority of resources in the health care system are spent on treatment of disorders rather on than the prevention of them.
Provides system of care communities with information on developing sustainable school mental health programs. The series focuses on strategies to consider in working with community mental health agencies, both public and private, and provides options for consideration in building school mental health programs that serve children and youth with serious mental
health needs.
Guides schools, juvenile justice agencies, law enforcement, mental health providers, and other community organizations to work in partnership addressing issues such as healthy childhood development, substance abuse and violence prevention, and mental health promotion.
Provides support to Local Health Departments' planning and preparedness activities by providing a filter, or guide, for the extensive array of existing resources, templates, PowerPoint presentations, memorandums of understanding and case studies in North Carolina. Resources in this online tool can be adapted for use by any state.
Highlights important research and information related to the study of children and youth in social work. Identifies resources on domestic violence and family issues.
