- Access to Care Ranking 2024
- Acute Care Children’s Hospital Survey
- Advancing mental health parity to ensure children’s access to care
- Blueprint for Transformation: A Vision for Improved Behavioral Health Care for Illinois Children
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
- Developing an innovative pediatric integrated mental health care program: interdisciplinary team successes and challenges
- Exploring Barriers to Mental Health Care in the US
- FACT SHEET: President Biden to Announce Strategy to Address Our National Mental Health Crisis, As Part of Unity Agenda in his First State of the Union
- Foster Youth and Alumni Priorities on Mental Health
- Improving Access to Children’s Mental Health
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Medicaid
- How State Medicaid Programs Serve Children and Youth in Foster Care
- Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
- Medicaid Behavioral Health Care Use Among Children in Foster Care
- Medicaid for Children with Special Needs
- Medicaid Spending by Child Welfare Agencies in SFY 2020
- Redesigning Medicaid: The Key to Solving Our Children’s Mental Health Crisis
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Workforce Retention
- 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
- Worker Turnover is a Persistent Child Welfare Challenge – So is Measuring It
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 Systematic Review of the Impact of Placement Instability on Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes Among Children in Foster Care
- ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Addressing LGBTQ+ Adoption Stigmas
- Addressing the Impact of Trauma Before Diagnosing Mental Illness in Child Welfare
- Adoption and Therapeutic Help
- Adoption Competency: A Brief Introduction
- Adoption Competent Mental Health Professionals: An Overview
- Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
- Building an Adoption Competent Workforce
- An Interactive Video for Supporting Your Friends with A.S.K.
- Project READY: Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth
- Resources for Children
- Self Care
- Take Control of Your Mental Health
- The Impact of Adoption
- Your Voice is Your Power podcast
- Your Voice is Your Power Resource Hub
- Youth and Young Adult Resources
- Access in Brief: Behavioral Health Services for Youth in Foster Care
- 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
- 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
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Child Welfare
- Mental Health and Cross-System Collaboration
- National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- Partnering for Success: Factors Impacting Implementation of a Cross-Systems Collaborative model Between Behavioral Health and Child Welfare
- A population-based examination of suicide and child protection system involvement
- Adolescent social networks matter for suicidal trajectories: Disparities across race/ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, and socioeconomic status
- Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit
- Attachment-Based Family Therapy Training (ABFT)
- 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
- Communities Must Tailor Youth Suicide Prevention Efforts to Those Who Need Them Most
- 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
- Exploring the Relationship Between Sense of Coherence and Historical Trauma Among American Indian Youth
- Why LGBTQI Cultural Competence Matters
- Achieving Equity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health by Addressing Racism Through Prevention Science
- Addressing Disproportionality, Disparity, and Equity Throughout Child Welfare
- Addressing Historical Trauma and Preparing the Child Welfare Workforce
- Addressing LGBTQ+ Adoption Stigmas
- Barriers to Mental Health Care Access Among LGBTQ+ Youth
- Building Gender-Inclusive Environments
- Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
- Developing Culturally Competent Adoption Services
- Engaging Kinship Caregivers: Loyalty Issues
- Family Ties: Analysis From a State-By-State Survey of Kinship Care Policies
- Kinship Care and Child Welfare System
- Kinship Caregivers Guide: How to Support Older Youth with Foster Care Experience through Co-Regulation
- Living and Working with Kin: A Real Life Experience
- The Kinship Treatment Foster Care Initiative Toolkit
- Training Series: Coping with the Unique Challenges of Kinship Care
- wikiHow for Kinship Foster Care
- ADHD vs Trauma in Foster Children
- Adoption and Foster Care Resources for LGBTQ+ Parents
- 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
- Helping a Friend: The Power of Asking and Listening
- Peer Support
- Peer support matters: Strategies to incorporate and elevate those with lived experience
- Peer Support Services Technical Assistance Center
- Providing Peer Support for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families
- Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Expanding Community-Driven Mental Health Resources
- Evidence-Based Policymaking and Advocacy
- Four Phases of Technical Assistance
- Invest Time and Trust in The National Center
- Mental Health and Foster Care
- National Organizations
- Overview of the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services
- Required Elements of Intensive Technical Assistance
- A Positive Youth Development Perspective on Mental Distress among American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
- A Village Apart: Lummi Nation Creates a Unique Community to Support Families
- Addressing Mental Health Among Children, Staff and Families in Tribal Early Childhood – Tribal Early Childhood Development Webinar Series
- Bureau of Indian Education Behavioral Health and Wellness Program
- Children’s Behavioral Health – Promising Practices in Tribal Communities
- Circle of Courage
- 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
- Cultural Connectedness and Indigenous Youth Well-Being
- Culture Protects Us
- A Tool for Youth Engagement and Youth Empowerment
- 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
- Family-Driven Resources