- 2023 State Legislation Issue Brief Series: Trends in State Policy: Youth Mental Health
- A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
- A National Agenda for Children’s Mental Health
- Access to Care Ranking 2024
- Acute Care Children’s Hospital Survey
- Advancing mental health parity to ensure children’s access to care
- Arizona Mercy Care
- Blueprint for Transformation: A Vision for Improved Behavioral Health Care for Illinois Children
- Caring for Each Other: What it Takes to Promote Mental Health and Well-Being
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
- Medicaid
Knowledge Hub
You have found the “go-to” repository of knowledge, best practices, models of intervention, and evidence-informed services to build the capacity of States, Tribes, territories, child welfare, and mental health professionals to offer comprehensive adoption competent mental health services. This hub is dynamic and will be regularly updated to align with your informational needs.
- “Everything started when…”: Illuminating Rupture as a Sensemaking Catalyst in Formerly Fostered, Emerging Adults’ Narratives
- A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence among Mental Health Providers
- A Systematic Review of the Impact of Placement Instability on Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes Among Children in Foster Care
- A Village Apart: Lummi Nation Creates a Unique Community to Support Families
- ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Addressing the Impact of Trauma Before Diagnosing Mental Illness in Child Welfare
- Addressing the Mental Health Effects of Foster Care
- Adoption and Therapeutic Help
- Adoption Competency: A Brief Introduction
- Adoption Competent Mental Health Professionals: An Overview
- Children with High Acuity Needs Project
- Access in Brief: Behavioral Health Services for Youth in Foster Care
- Addressing Mental Health Among Children, Staff and Families in Tribal Early Childhood – Tribal Early Childhood Development Webinar Series
- Building Cross-System Collaborations in Tribal Nations
- Caregiver-relevant perspectives from a multi-stakeholder collaborative advisory board on adapting a child mental health intervention to be delivered in child-welfare settings
- Child and Family Service Reviews: A Factsheet for Mental Health Professionals
- Collaborating Between Child Welfare and Mental Health
- Glossary for State-level Data for Understanding Child Welfare in the United States
- How can child protection agencies collaborate to prevent foster care and support family well-being?
- Implementation and Mental Health Outcomes of a Service Cascade Linking Child Welfare and Children’s Mental Health: A Case Study of the Gateway CALL Demonstration
- “A Friend Asks” App
- A population-based examination of suicide and child protection system involvement
- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy Training (ABFT)
- Best and Promising Practices for the Implementation of Zero Suicide
- Building Capacity Around Suicide Prevention in Tribal Child Welfare Programs
- Cognitive Therapy for Suicidal Patients (CT-SP)
- Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
- Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale
- Comparison of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide in children and young people in care and non-care populations: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence
- Adoption by the Numbers
- Behavioral Health Initiatives by State
- Child and Family Service Review (CFSR) Information Portal
- Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics
- Child Welfare Data and Research
- Child Welfare Financing Survey
- Child Welfare Outcomes Data Site
- Expenditure Data
- Health Workforce Shortage Areas
- Kids Count Data Book
- A Tool for Youth Engagement and Youth Empowerment
- BRIEF: Are We Practicing What We Preach? Family Partnership in Residential Care
- Building and Sustaining Effective Parent Partnerships: Stages of Relationship Development
- Community Outreach and Engagement: Toolkit for Mental Health-Serving Agencies
- Continuum of Family Partnership: What Does it Look Like in Residential Care?
- Engaging Young People With Lived Experience in the CFSRs: Key Considerations, Roles, and Recommendations
- Experts by Experience: How Engaging People with Lived Experience Can Improve Social Services
- Family Empowerment Implementation Manual
- Family Engagement in Systems Change: Use of a New Assessment Tool in Quality Improvement
- Family Engagement: Partnering With Families to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes
- Bernalillo County Mental Health Clinic Case Study: A Guide to Juvenile Detention Reform
- Crossover Youth Practice Model
- Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
- Medicaid Opportunities to Support Youth Leaving Incarceration
- New Medicaid Opportunities to Support Youth Leaving Incarceration: Building Community Well-Being and Advancing Prevention Efforts
- American Indian & Alaska Native Grandfamilies: Helping Children Thrive Through Connection to Family and Cultural Identity
- Benefits of Kinship Placement
- Diverting Children from Foster to Kinship Care: The Issue and the Evidence
- Engaging Kinship Caregivers: Loyalty Issues
- Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
- GrandFacts: Fact Sheets for Each State
- Guidance for Policy Language: Kinship Services in Tribal Child Welfare – Toolkit Part 2
- Health and Well-Being of Children in Kinship Care: Findings from the National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care
- Kinship Care and Child Welfare System
- Kinship Caregivers Guide: How to Support Older Youth with Foster Care Experience through Co-Regulation
- ADHD vs Trauma in Foster Children
- Attachment
- Becoming a Better Me for Them
- Behavioral Health: What Parents Should Know
- Building Children’s Resilience
- Building Relationships Filled with Hope
- Building Trust with Children and Youth
- Developmental Disruptions
- Expanding Your Parenting Paradigm
- Family Peer Support Specialist Resources
- Helping a Friend: The Power of Asking and Listening
- Medicaid Funding for Family and Youth Peer Support Programs in the United States
- Parent Peer Support Activities
- Peer Support
- Peer support matters: Strategies to incorporate and elevate those with lived experience
- Peer Support Services Technical Assistance Center
- Promoting Peer Support in Child Welfare
- Providing Peer Support for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families
- Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Expanding Community-Driven Mental Health Resources
- Building Bridges Initiative
- Congregate Care in the Age of Family First
- Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Family Engagement
- Congregate Care in the Age of Family First: Trauma-Informed Care
- Elements of Effective Practice for Children and Youth Served by Therapeutic Residential Care
- Family Engagement in Residential Programs
- Family First Implementation: A One-Year Review of State Progress in Reforming Congregate Care
- How are some child protection agencies attending to Qualified Residential Treatment Program requirements?
- Investing in Community-Based Care for Children and Youth Involved with Child Welfare
- Residential Treatment
- 2023 State Legislation Issue Brief Series: Trends in State Policy: Youth Mental Health
- Children’s Behavioral Health – Promising Practices in Tribal Communities
- Contemporary Attachment and Bonding Research: Implications for American Indian/Alaska Native Children and their Service Providers
- Creating a New Narrative: Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities
- Evidence-Based Policymaking and Advocacy
- Four Phases of Technical Assistance
- Invest Time and Trust in The National Center
- Mental Health and Foster Care
- Mental Health Resources for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
- National Organizations
- Advancing community health worker models to support youth and families’ mental health
- Assessment Tool: Fostering Psychological Safety on Child Welfare Teams
- Burnout in Mental Health Services: A Review of the Problem and Its Remediation
- How does turnover in the child welfare workforce impact children and families?
- Mental Health and the Child Welfare Workforce
- The Burnout Epidemic: High Turnover in Child Welfare
- Top (and Bottom) 10 States For Behavioral Health Staff Shortages
- Worker Turnover is a Persistent Child Welfare Challenge – So is Measuring It