External Resources

Making Person-Centered Planning Mainstream: How to Get Started [External link]

Video with Michael Smull and Helen Sanderson.

PACER Center—Person-Centered Planning: The Path to Your Child’s Happiness [External link]

Person-centered planning brings together a community of support that can help your child set and accomplish specific goals. You can involve anyone you want in person-centered planning. You can do it at any time in your child’s life and make changes along the way.

Cost Effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment [External link]

To determine the cost-effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in comparison to Standard Case Management (SCM) for persons with severe mental illness and substance use disorders.

Assertive Community Treatment Implementation Manual—The Evidence-based Treatment Guide from The Center for Evidence-based Practices and Its Ohio Assertive Community Treatment Coordinating Center of Excellence [External link]

This booklet helps organizations implement Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the evidence-based practice.

Assertive Community Treatment Summary [External link]

Assertive Community Treatment getting-started guide from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve

Minnesota Standards for Assertive Community Treatment [External link]

MN DHS assertive community treatment (revised 2010)

Minnesota Adult Mental Health Assertive Community Treatment Information [External link]

MN DHS web page describing Assertive Community Treatment (ACT).

What is Applied Behavior Analysis? [External link]

ABA fact sheet that defines and explains applied behavior analysis

No Spanking, No Time-Out – Atlantic Article [External link]

A child psychologist argues that punishment is a waste of time when trying to eliminate problem behavior.

Community Report on Autism [External link]

A Snapshot of Autism Spectrum Disorder among 8-year-old Children in Multiple Communities across the United States in 2014