Technical Assistance Topic Areas & Resources
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Child Welfare
- Center for the Advancement of Child Welfare Practice - Western and Pacific Child Welfare Implementation Center (WPIC): strengthening the capacity of states, tribes, and counties to implement and sustain child welfare system reforms
- Community-Based Care Technical Assistance Project: resources and expertise for Florida's child for Florida Community-Based Care Partnership Project staff
- Evaluation of the Title IV-E Waiver: the permanency, safety, and well-being of children in out of home care
- Florida’s Center for the Advancement of Child Welfare Practice
Quality Improvement
- Child & Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and Service Process Adherence to Needs and Strengths (SPANS): a systematic assessment of child and family needs and strengths to guides service planning and delivery
Reduction in Mental Health Disparities
- EQUIPO: strengthening the partnership between natural helpers in the community and formal service providers
- RAICES: Resources, Advocacy, Integration, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Services: building healthy school and family ties upon the foundations present within the family and community*
Suicide Prevention
- Statewide Suicide Prevention Implementation Plan Project: enhancing the capacity of state and of local communities to convert the suicide prevention strategy into concrete actions
- Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide (The Guide): assisting schools, in collaboration with families and community partners in creating/ improving their suicide prevention programs
- Youth Suicide Prevention Training: helping communities and schools gain knowledge and skill in planning a community approach to youth suicide prevention*
Systems Planning & Policy
- Families and Children Together In Seminole (FACTS)): ensuring that services and supports are integrated across human service systems and implemented consistent with System of Care and Trauma-informed Care values
- Logic Model Development*
- National Evaluation of the Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI): provides assistance to system of care community teams as they map out their desired system change, plan how to accomplish that change, and generate shared responsibility for the results
- Out-of-Home Care Study: behavioral health treatment options for Florida's Medicaid population
- System of Care Development: improving services systems for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families
- System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR): assessing system of care principles at the level of practice*
Trauma-Based Support
- Many Faces of Trauma: Community Engaged Trauma Research: development of partnerships and approaches that can remediate the psychological impact of trauma
- Trauma Recovery Initiative for Youth Center (TRI Center): providing trauma-informed services to children and youth experiencing complex trauma