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title: Creating Mental Health Connections for Children and Youth in Foster Care
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url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/access-to-mental-health-services/creating-mental-health-connections-for-children-and-youth-in-foster-care/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Access to Mental Health Services
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Exemplars
  - TA sites
---

# Creating Mental Health Connections for Children and Youth in Foster Care

This webpage briefly reviews how Washington State is improving the screening and assessment for trauma and evidence-based treatments for children, youth, and their families who are served in the Washington State public child welfare system.

 

[Read More](https://www.dshs.wa.gov/node/8926)

 

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