Systems of Care and Funding for Children's Mental Health Services

Statewide Behavior Initiatives, (2007) (PDF: 12kb) was developed by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education from a brief survey sent to state departments of education. The survey results explain how states are implementing statewide behavior initiatives for school age children (3- 21 year olds) using the PBIS model from the University of Oregon.

Children's Mental Health: An Overview and Key Considerations for Health System Stakeholders, (2005) (PDF: 215kb) National Institute for Health Care Management issue paper

Funding for Children's Mental Health Services: Making the Most of Medicaid, (2005) (PDF: 131kb) National Governors Association issue brief

Major Federal Programs Supporting and Financing Mental Health Care, (DOC: 467kb) Created for the Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (2003)

Pathways to Service Utilization: A Synthesis of Evidence Relevant to Young Children with Challenging Behavior (May 2003)

Systems of Service Delivery: A Synthesis of Evidence Relevant to Young Children With or At Risk of Challenging Behavior (January 2003)

Making Dollars Follow Sense: Financing Early Childhood Mental Health Services to Promote Healthy Social Emotional Development in Young Children, (PDF: 190kb) (July 2002)

Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children: An Action Guide for Policy Makers, (2001) (PDF: 186kb) by Jane Knitzer

Funding Early Childhood Mental Health Services and Supports (March 2001) in 3 files:

• Overview (PDF: 100kb)
• APPENDIX A Matrix of Early Childhood Mental Health Services & Supports PART 1 (PDF: 14kb)
• Tables 1 and 2, Appendices B and C (PDF: 180kb) includes Table 1 List of Early Childhood Mental Health Services Supports, Table 2 List of Potential Funding Sources, APPENDIX B Funding Streams, and APPENDIX C List of Meeting Participants

Starting Early Starting Smart: Key Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience (PDF: 1,587kb) (Spring, 2001)

Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health (2001)

• Volume II- Learning from Families: Identifying Service Strategies for Success (PDF: 479kb)
• Vol. III-Promising Practices in Early Childhood Mental Health (PDF: 532kb)
• Vol. VII - A Compilation of Lessons Learned from the 22 Grantees of the 1997 Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program (PDF: 396kb)