Search page for resources from Child Welfare Information Gateway, the Children’s Bureau (CB), CB-funded projects, and other leading organizations in child welfare.
A system of care is: A spectrum of effective, community-based services and supports for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges and their families, that is organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs, in order to help them to function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
PACT for Families Collaborative is a five county partnership which operates as a Children’s Mental Health Collaborative, and a Family Services Collaborative
The landscape for the organization and financing of behavioral health services for children and adolescents is rapidly shifting in the United States as a result
of state and local budgetary pressures, large-scale Medicaid redesign initiatives in states, and opportunities and challenges posed by national health reform
Advances in many areas of research, such as brain development, are showing that young children, including infants, can experience significant mental health problems. These studies confirm that the developmental journey towards positive mental health begins early, founded upon the first years of life. Studies have also found that children whose families experience stressors, such as parents with serious mental illness, families experiencing violence, families with histories of abuse and neglect, have the best outcomes when interventions focus on the entire family and not just the child.
Article in the publication Impact that describes some of what is known about violence against women with developmental disabilities and points out some things that still need to be studied.
This booklet was written to help Veteran parents living with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) talk about their feelings and experiences with their children.
Recognize the signs of child traumatic stress and the impact that trauma may have on children. The infographic developed by SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCSTI) provides information on the prevalence and impact of traumatic events on children, and what actions can be taken to support children who experience traumatic events.
Presents the results of a survey conducted among child welfare agencies in a number of states. The survey assessed the ways agencies gather, assess, and share trauma-related information and the child trauma training their staff receive. The goal was to determine how the various service systems communicate with each other about trauma and whether, alone or through interaction, they retraumatize a child or, more positively, promote a child's healing following a traumatic event.
