{"product_id":"transforming-childrens-mental-health-policy-into-practice-9781498541121","title":"Transforming Childrens Mental Health Policy into","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the long term impact of service reform in children's mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice in this area, and inform readers about strategies employed by policy makers, administrators and advocates to develop and sustain effective systems of care. This book looks at Virginia's effort to reform care for at-risk youth, as well as the transformational initiatives of six states and several localities. Using a comprehensive ecological framework, the authors focus on a statewide transformation of services for children\/youth with serious emotional and behavioral challenges to enhance understanding of the course and consequences of system change efforts over an extended period of time. Attention is given to the impact of this reform on individual children and families, and local communi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese authors offer a well documented history of child mental health services over decades in the State of Virginia. It provides a tangled history of the interaction between politics and mental health leadership. Their clearly articulated insights  will be of value to historians and to public health policy leaders. -- Barbara J. Burns, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eWhether you are a child serving professional, advocate, policy maker or family member, this work is a “must read” reference and guide. It honors the family and children’s voices struggling to secure the care that they need and explains how difficult transformation of practice and policy truly is. As a colleague of the authors, and administrator in children’s mental health system of care initiatives, I was impressed with the comprehensive approach to the detailed chronicling of the development of the Children’s Service system in Virginia. Their comparison with other States’ experiences with system of care from a political, developmental, structural and personal perspective illustrates creative approaches and identifies best practice strategies.   In the end, all systems come down to the one child that we all want to see succeed and have a safe and happy life. Drs. Cohen and Ventura expertly paint the canvas on what that life looks like and gives us a glimpse of the next portrait of children’s community mental health. -- Alexandria W. Lewis, Virginia Commonwealth University\u003cbr\u003eAs one of the co-authors of the original monograph that presented the vision for systems of care, I am delighted to see this comprehensive, thorough, and thoughtful presentation of the work done over a 20-year period in Virginia. As Bob Cohen and Allison Ventura point out, achieving system reform is a complex and challenging task and sustaining reforms beyond their initial stage is not only difficult but often overlooked. This book is very rare in that it looks at a reform over a 20 year period, and presents scholarly information as well as information from a variety of key informants. The information is primarily about the Virginia system of care reform, but also examines efforts in other states as well as local communities. The book should be of value both within the system of care world and the world of system change and reform more broadly, and the authors are to be congratulated for their enormous contribution. -- Robert Friedman, University of South Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\t Part I: Setting The Stage  Chapter 1: The Status of Care for At Risk Youth and Families in the 1980s  Chapter 2: The System of Care Paradigm Emerges Chapter 3: Why Virginia? Chapter 4: Inside the Act: What the Legislation Promised and Required   Part II: 1993–2001 Chapter 5: The Curtain Rises: The Early Years  Chapter 6: A New Way: Building a Program Around the Child  Chapter 7: Putting All the Pieces Together:  A Locality Creates a Comprehensive System of Care  Chapter 8: Entering an Era of Accountability   Part III: 2002–2013 Chapter 9: Moving into the New Millennium: Coming of Age or Arrested Development? 198  Chapter 10: CSA Reaches Adolescence:  Small Signs of Hope   Chapter 11: A Surprising Turn of Events  Part IV: The Reviews Arrive: Making Sense Of CSA’s 20 Year Odyssey Chapter 12: Percentages, Perception, and Profiles  Chapter 13: Putting CSA In Perspective   Part V: Other Venues and Lessons for Those Who Aspire To Act on the Stage of Reform   Chapter 14: Systems of Care in Other States  Chapter 15: When States are Ordered to Reform  Chapter 16: Local Systems of Care  Chapter 17: Walking a High Wire on a Windy Day:  Lessons from the Field  References Index About the Authors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040731070807,"sku":"9781498541121","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498541121.jpg?v=1750947654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transforming-childrens-mental-health-policy-into-practice-9781498541121","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}