Standards of Practice: Positive Behavior Support Across the Lifespan The MNPBS Network has finished the Minnesota Standards of Practice! Minnesota Standards of Practice Monograph This is considered version 1.0. We welcome your guidance and feedback for future updates. Email mnpbsnetwork@gmail.com to provide your review. Please visit the Standards page to see the organization and the […]
This glossary contains the definitions of all the terms presented in the HCBS and Community-based supports modules in one place. For more description and information, check out the modules in the Team Training section of the website. ABC Chart: A tool used in Functional Behavioral Assessment or FBA that records information while observing behavior that […]
Wraparound has become a predominant tool for implementing interagency systems of care. The system of care concept was developed in the mid-1980s as a response to (a) a dearth of mental health and other services for students; (b) the fragmentation of services across mental health, education, child welfare and juvenile justice services; and (c) the history of poor outcomes for students with emotional disturbance and their families. The key idea behind the development of a system of care was a coordinated network of community-based services that is organized to meet student and family needs rather than agency needs.
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.
