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- Title
Trying to Remodel the Children and Youth Service System: Observations about Barriers and Opportunities.
- Authors
Sarata, Brian; Provorse, Dave
- Abstract
From their perspective as participant observers, the authors discuss the initial phase of an attempt to remodel the child/family mental health service delivery system. Conceptualizing families as being at varying levels of risk for dismemberment is seen as: (a) providing a politically viable terminology, (b) permitting each agency to develop a continuum of services tailored to its mandate and clientele, and (c) facilitating legislative efforts to analyze simultaneously the budgets of all those state agencies with major responsibilities for children's services. A planning team endorsed cooperative planning between a state-level coordinating council and individual locales. Cultural communities were invited to participate in a manner paralleling the planning role of local communities. A model for a free standing case management entity is proposed. The concept of empowerment is discussed as a criterion for multi-level outcome evaluation.
- Subjects
CHILD mental health services; HEALTH outcome assessment; MENTAL health services; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities; MEDICAL care; YOUTH services
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1991, Vol 9, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.2370090205