Since 1986, the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health has hosted this event to expand the research base necessary to improve service systems for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances and their families.
The agenda will group presentations into tracks that address critical areas of inquiry. Sessions will offer important research and evaluation methods and results in these areas.
- Facilitating youth transition to adulthood and independence
- Family-driven, youth-guided systems planning
- Implementation of effective systems of care
- Implementing evidence-based practices in the systems of care context
- Creating culturally competent systems to reduce disparities
- School-based services and the system of care
- Innovative methodologies for research and evaluation of complex systems
- Integrating evaluation and performance measurement
- Implementing wrap-around services in systems of care
- Role of public sector agencies in SOC
- Designing, conducting, and disseminating research to maximize its impact
- Addressing the Issue of Unregulated Residential Services: An Agenda for SOC Services and Research
Hosted by the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health in Tampa, Fla. The Center is jointly funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.