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title: "A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial"
description: "This article introduces a research project that will develop and test a mental health navigator model to address the unique and complex mental health needs of CWI youth and their families. Findings should be published in March 2025.   -…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/access-to-mental-health-services/a-family-based-mental-health-navigator-intervention-for-youth-in-the-child-welfare-system-protocol-for-a-randomized-controlled-trial/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Access to Mental Health Services
tags:
  - Article
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Mental health professionals
  - TA sites
---

# A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

This article introduces a research project that will develop and test a mental health navigator model to address the unique and complex mental health needs of CWI youth and their families. Findings should be published in March 2025.

 

- Navigator models:
  - Support access to, and transition through, complex health care systems
  - Provide a promising approach to increasing linkage to, and engagement in, mental health services for CWI youth with high rates of unaddressed mental health concerns

 

[Read More](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10523219/)

 

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