I am part of a work-group that is looking to build a proposal for a sort of medical or behavioral health home model for youth involved with the Foster Care System. We want to think about a continuum of youth who range from youth who are having their first touch with the foster care system and we want to do mandatory 30 day screening for MH and ACEs/Resilience ... all the way to youth with long history of involvement with Foster Care and possibly are in congregate care or residential care at this time.
We are looking for the following kind of information and it would be so helpful if people could send it forward as we build the proposal.
- Finding models where providers have been effective (and there is evidence) of doing mandatory MH and Trauma/Resilience Screening within 30 days of FC youth touching the system
- Using this screening/assessment process to guide what EBP these youth are matched with (EX: PCIT, TF-CBT, SPARC, FTM, Progressive Counting/EMDR, FACT, etc.)
- Outcomes of this early identification process being meaningful (data) and hopefully cost saving (prevention vs. intervention)
- Outcomes of an intensive model helping children transition out of RTC and back home with caregivers and community based treatment