Minnesota System of Care is a new way of helping children and youth with complex mental health needs and their families by connecting and coordinating the work of various systems and partners
Families comprising a parent, child, or youth who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) or transitioning navigate
varying levels of acceptance and support when accessing and utilizing needed services within the mental health system.
2019 MNPBS Gathering Materials Keynote Speaker The keynote speaker for the 2019 Collaborators Forum is Caryn Ward, PhD, HSP-P. Dr. Ward is the Associate Director for Education and Measurement of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. At NIRN, she is the Director of the […]
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
2018 MNPBS Gathering Materials Keynote Speaker Our keynote speaker is Dr. Ashley MacSuga-Gage. Dr. MacSuga-Gage is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida. Her specific research interests include identifying and supporting teachers in the implementation of Class-Wide Positive Behavior Support practices through the application of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) to professional […]
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.
Violence, abuse, and bullying are frequent realities for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD). Criminal justice professionals, self-advocates (people with disabilities), family members, and disability professionals must collaborate and learn from one another to safeguard the
lives of people with disabilities as they live independently in their communities.
