Conference Handouts

Presented at the 21st Annual Research Conference

Title: Family Driven, Youth Guided Facilitation for Monterey County System of Care Development
Presenters: Dana Edgull; Mike Robles

Title: The Power of Parents: Preliminary Outcomes from the Family Peer Support Program
Presenters: Olivia Davis ; Lori Crosby

Title: Tattered Safety Net: Evidence-Based Practices in Children’s Mental Health
Presenters: Janice Cooper; Yumiko Aratani

Title: Social and Emotional Skills in Prediction of School Readiness
Presenters: Matthew Underwood; Paul Thomlinson

Title: Implementation and Outcomes of Evidence-Based Practice: Results of Connecticut’s MST Progress Report
Presenters: Robert Franks; Jennifer Schroeder; Christian Connell; Dean Fixsen; Jacob Tebes

Title: Reducing Seclusion and Restraint Use with Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances
Presenters: Lynda Frost

Title: Screening within Juvenile Justice to Identify Service Needs across the System of Care
Presenters: Kay Hodges; Cynthia Smith; Mary Johnson

Title: Unmet Need and Juvenile Justice: Cost and Consequences
Presenters: Kenneth Rogers; Olabode Akintan

Title: International Replications of FFT: Transcending Issues of Culture, Language, Treatment Systems, Funding Criteria, and Distance
Presenters: Kjell Hansson; Andrea Neeb; Kellie Armey

Title: Quality Assurance and Practice Improvement: The Washington State Functional Family Therapy Project
Presenters: Jeffrey Patnode; Kim Mason

Title: Integrating and SustainingFunctional Family Therapy Within Statewide and Larger Systems
Presenters: Helen Midouhas ; Doug Kopp

Title: Creating the Evidence Based Practice was the Easy Part...Who Knew?
Presenters: James Alexander; Charles Frazier

Title: Facilitating Family Driven Processes: Training Therapists to Provide Outcomes Feedback to Caregivers
Presenters: Ashley Lyon; Heidi Wale; Kay Hodges; Malisa Pearson

Title: What are the Demographic and Psychiatric Characteristics of Children with Severe Emotional Disturbances (SED) Referred for Home and Community Based Medicaid Waiver Services (HCBS-W) in New York City?
Presenters: Robert Andrews; Sergio Gomez; Olga Teploukhova; Sonyarles Then ; Michelle Acosta

Title: Participatory Action Research Agenda for Family-to-Family Peer Support Models
Presenters: Elaine Slaton; Teresa King; Amy Winans; Norín Dollard; Chris Stormann

Title: Building Capacity for Implementing PMTO at the State and Local Level
Presenters: Luann Gray

Title: A Systematic Review of Employment Programs for Transition-age Youth with SED
Presenters: Troy Loker

Title: Medication Use among Children Entering the Albany County, NY System of Care
Presenters: LuAnn McCormick; Kenneth Robin

Title: Unpacking the Role of Parent Advocates within a Systems of Care Model
Presenters: Michelle Munson; David Hussey; Chris Stormann; Teresa King

Title: Leadership: It’s Everyone’s Business!
Presenters: Joan Dodge; Lan Le

Title: The Transition to Adulthood among Former Wraparound Milwaukee Clients
Presenters: Abigail Bernett; Stephen Gilbertson

Title: Strategies for Rapid Development of a Transition to Adulthood Program Information System
Presenters: Mason Haber

Title: Responding to Evolving Evaluation Needs in a Comprehensive Early Childhood Initiative
Presenters: Michael Bates

Title: Technology for Research, Evaluation, and Measure Development with Complex, Multisite Community Initiatives
Presenters: Hewitt Clark

Title: State Regulation of Residential Facilities for Children
Presenters: Henry Ireys

Title: Perspectives on the Changing Role of Residential Treatment in the System of Care
Presenters: Jonathan Brown

Title: Trends in Outcomes for Youth Served in Residential Treatment: 1996-2006
Presenters: Sarah Hurley

Title: The Role of Residential Care in the Evolving Mental Health Service Systems
Presenters: Kamala Allen; Gary Blau

Title: Predictors of Adjustment for Children and Adolescents Served in a Behavioral Health System of Care
Presenters: Joy Kaufman

Title: A Large Scale Needs Analysis Based on Statewide Quantitative and Qualitative Data
Presenters: Ryan Quist

Title: Participatory Research in an Urban American Indian Community
Presenters: Jami Bartgis

Title: The Progression of MST Adaptations: Pilot Studies to Large Scale Dissemination
Presenters: Scott Henggeler

Title: Unregulated Residential Services: The Challenge to Ensure Quality Services and Protections--Part I
Presenters: Lenore Behar; Robert Friedman

Title: Risks to Children and Pressures on Parents
Presenters: Christina Young; Cynthia Clark Harvey; Paul Lewis

Title: Steps to Stimulate Policy Changes: Gathering Data
Presenters: Kay Brown; Allison Pinto

Title: Conversation Hour with Michael Quinn Patton
Presenters:

Title: Research Agenda for LGBTQ - Special Session
Presenters: Kathy Lazear; Peter Gamache

Title: The Art and Science of Fidelity Assessment: Paint by Number - Completing the Picture
Presenters: Joan Kernan; Marie Morilus-Black; Reva Fish

Title: Building a “Neighborhood” System of Care In the Absence of a System of Care
Presenters: Neil Pessin; Jessica Fear

Title: Training Retention and Utilization: The Impact of Suicide Prevention Training Activities on Youth-serving Professionals and Their Communities
Presenters: Kathleen Jones

Title: Evidence-based, Trauma-informed Practices and Resources: Adoption, Use and Implementation in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Presenters: Elizabeth Douglas

Title: Implementation Factors for Evidence-based Practices within Children’s Mental Health Systems of Care
Presenters: G. Kurt Moore

Title: Out of the Lab and Onto Our Streets: Findings from Three National Evaluation Efforts on the Use and Implementation of Evidence-based Practices in Community-based Service Settings
Presenters: Christine Walrath; John Fluke

Title: The Trauma Recovery for Youth Center (TRY): Helping Youth in Foster Care
Presenters: Keren Vergon; Cynthia Blacklaw; Allison Metcalf

Title: Michigan's Statewide Implementation of an Evaluation Based Program (EBP): Building Capacity and Sustainability
Presenters: Kay Hodges; Karen Blase

Title: The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care: Mental Health Quality Improvement Efforts
Presenters: Laura Hurwitz; Sharon Stephan

Title: Assessing the Implementation of Residential Care: Development and Psychometrics of a Staff Observation Instrument
Presenters: Annette Griffith

Title: Transferring Evidence-Based Practice to the Community: A Dynamic Collaborative Process
Presenters: Marion Forgatch

Title: A Model for Effective Partnering of Mental Health and Public Education K-12
Presenters: Camille Paras; Teresa Wright

Title: Teacher Self-Efficacy and Attributions of Student Behavior
Presenters: Kathy Dowell

Title: Rural Residence and Unmet Need in Two Service Systems
Presenters: Anna Maria Brannan

Title: Pathways to Serious Criminal Activity for Multi-System Youth
Presenters: Stephanie Romney; Deborah Sherwood; Sai-Ling Chan-Sew

Title: Strategies and Resources for Assessing and Improving Quality in School Mental Health
Presenters: Sharon Stephan; Dean Fixsen

Title: Cultural Adaptation of Evidence-Based Practices: State, Tribal and Private Foundation Experiences
Presenters: Holly Echo-Hawk; Betty Poitra; Rick Ybarra

Title: Strategies to Enhance the Dissemination and Adoption of Innovation in School Mental Health
Presenters: Paul Flaspohler; Carl Paternite

Title: Documented Treatment Among Children Receiving Care in California's Publicly-funded Oupatient Programs
Presenters: Bonnie Zima

Title: Transition Aged Youth in Therapeutic Foster Care: Risks, Resources, and Service Use
Presenters: Dannia Southerland

Title: The National Network to Eliminate Disparities (NNED) in Behavioral Health: A New Structure to Address the “Wicked” Problem of Disparities
Presenters: Rachele Espiritu; Larke Huang; Aurelio "P. J." Rivera; Guileine Kraft

Title: The National Network to Eliminate Disparities (NNED) to Eliminate Disparities: A New Structure to Address the “Wicked” Problem of Disparities
Presenters: Larke Huang; Mareasa Isaacs; Barbara Bazron; Nancy Carter; Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: A Statewide View of Transferring Capacity to Sustain Implementation of an Evaluation Based Program (EBP)
Presenters: Jim Wotring

Title: Highlights of TEAMMATES’ Wraparound Population, Outcomes, and Quality Initiatives
Presenters: Karyn Dresser; Ontson Placide; Michael Rauso

Title: State Agency Role in Transforming Children’s Mental Health Services in a Non-Transformation State – Implementing Systems Change with Legislative and Agency Leadership, a System of Care Project and Use of a System Review Evaluation
Presenters: Allen Parks; Pam Alger; Gary Lippe

Title: Special Education for Emotional Disturbance: Needs, Outcomes for Children in Child Welfare
Presenters: Madeline Lee

Title: Community Population Characteristics Mediate Racial Disparities in Child Psychiatric Crisis Stabilization Decisions
Presenters: Richard Epstein

Title: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Crisis Stabilization within a Comprehensive System of Care
Presenters: Neil Jordan; Neil Jordan

Title: Effectiveness of MST for Youth who Sexually Offend: Preliminary Findings
Presenters: Elizabeth Letourneau; Scott Henggeler

Title: The Impact of School-based Systems of Care on Youth, Families and Schools
Presenters: Joy Kaufman; Stanley Bernard

Title: Exploring the Impact of Delivering Mental Health Services in NYC After-School Programs
Presenters: Gerald Landsberg; Stephanie Smith-Waterman; Erica Adhoot

Title: Public-Private Collaborative Efforts toward a Coercion-Free System of Care
Presenters: Lesley Slavin; Jennifer Wong

Title: The Art and Science of Fidelity Assessment: Priming the Canvas
Presenters: Jody Levison-Johnson; Rusti Berent; Thomas Jewell

Title: Depression and Antisocial Behavior Outcomes Among Comorbid Youth in Juvenile Justice
Presenters: Jill McCulloch

Title: Mental Health Communication Training for Pediatric Primary Care Providers: Impact on Disparities
Presenters: Jonathan Brown; Lawrence Wissow

Title: Technological Solutions for Integrating and Managing Evaluation and Program Performance Data
Presenters: Ranilo Laygo; Susan Moss; Charmaine Higa-McMillan

Title: Evidence-Based Approaches to Treatment Evaluation: Lessons from Vermont
Presenters: Laurel Omland

Title: Mental Health Services Utilization of Youth Screened for Suicide Risk and Mental Disorders During School
Presenters: Mathilde Husky

Title: Factors Associated with Psychiatric Hospital Length of Stay among Children and Adolescents
Presenters: Scott Leon

Title: Findings from the Multi-Site Evaluation of Independent Living Programs for Youth in Foster Care
Presenters: Maria Woolverton

Title: Using the System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR) for Needs Assessment and Quality Assurance: Experiences of Several Communities
Presenters: Mario Hernandez; John Mayo

Title: How can Data Collection and Analysis Choices Aid Outcome Evaluations?
Presenters: Jeff St. Pierre

Title: Using Family and Patient Input to Improve Consumer Health Information in Child & Youth Mental Health
Presenters: Don Buchanan

Title: How to Examine Patterns of Service Utilization within Children’s Mental Health Agencies
Presenters: Graham Reid; Juliana Tobon

Title: Methods for Understanding Parent Preferences, Patient Utilization and Outcomes
Presenters: Graham Reid; Melanie Barwick

Title: Youth Group Participation: A Potential Component of Clinical Care for Behavioral Difficulties
Presenters: William Bannon; Mary McKay

Title: Mental Health Assessment of Infants and Toddlers in Early Intervention Services
Presenters: Martha Dore; Susan Ayers

Title: Flexible Funds Expenditures in System of Care Communities
Presenters: Anna Krivelyova; Kendralin Freeman

Title: Reducing Waiting Times for Children’s Mental Health Services: A Qualitative Analysis of Parental Preferences
Presenters: Charles Cunningham

Title: Youth and Family Perspectives: Mental Health Needs and Access
Presenters: Diana McIntosh; Julie Geiler

Title: Development and Assessment of the Collaborative Care for Attention Deficit Disorders Scale
Presenters: James Guevara; Paul Greenbaum

Title: Establishing Case Rates, then Managing within them
Presenters: Shannon Van Deman; Knute Rotto

Title: It's Scary Out There: Youth with Mental Health Needs Speak about Transitioning to Adulthood
Presenters: Ann Geddes

Title: Predicting Recurrent Psychiatric Crisis among Children and Adolescents in State Custody
Presenters: Jung Park

Title: Building Capacity of Community-Based Preschool Programs: The Process and Outcomes of an Organizational-Level Intervention
Presenters: Anna Malsch; Brianne Hood

Title: Using Concept Mapping to Develop a Logic Model for a System of Care
Presenters: Cathy Baxter; Mona Gauthier; Heidi Nelson; Sharon DeBerry

Title: Outcome Indicators for Youth’s Functioning and Parent’s Child Management Skills: Results from PMTO Training
Presenters: Kay Hodges

Title: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children in the Child Welfare System
Presenters: Janis Prince Inniss; Robert Paulson

Title: Utilizing Research Process to Implement Effective Parent to Parent Services
Presenters: Katherine Byrnes; Susan Corrigan; Victoria Frehe; Emily McCave

Title: Predictors of Missed Appointments Over The Course Of Child Mental Health Treatment
Presenters: Michael Gordon; Lawrence Lewandowski

Title: Small Town Systems of Care: Perceptions of Innovative Children’s Mental Health Services in a Rural Setting
Presenters: Michael Pullmann; Cheri Hoffman; Craig Anne Heflinger

Title: The Massachusetts Family Networks Implementation Study
Presenters: Joanne Nicholson; Susan Maciolek

Title: Development of a Trauma-Informed System of Care Assessment Tool and Methodology
Presenters: James Yoe; Carol Tiernan

Title: The National Behavior Research and Coordination Center: Overview and Year 2 findings.
Presenters: Carl Sumi; Michelle Woodbridge

Title: Using Data from the Children’s Mental Health Initiative
Presenters: Philip Leaf; Christine Walrath; Phyllis Gyamfi; Robert Stephens; Melissa Azur

Title: Predictors of Perceived Control over Treatment Decisions and its Influence on Subsequent Service for Youth in Systems of Care
Presenters: Diogo Pinheiro

Title: Evaluation of Florida’s Child Welfare Prepaid Mental Health Plan: Rationale, Implementation, and Initial Findings
Presenters: Amy Vargo; Patty Sharrock; Roger Boothroyd

Title: Employing Multiply Imputed Data to Examine Disparities in Service Use Among Children
Presenters: Crystal Barksdale

Title: Guidelines and Suggestions on How to Multiply Impute Missing Data
Presenters: Melissa Azur

Title: Direct Treatment Costs of Child Psychiatric Crisis Stabilization Services
Presenters: YongJoo Rhee

Title: Creating the Oorganizational Capacity to Serve Families with Parental Mental Illness: The Implementation of Family Options
Presenters: Kathleen Biebel; Katherine Woolsey

Title: Evaluation of a Family Organization Integrating Local and National Evaluation Data
Presenters: James Cook; Nancy Kothandapany; Laura Weber

Title: Predictors of Youth and Family Satisfaction with Outcomes of Mental Health Services
Presenters: Sudha Mehta; Kristina Mycek; Eric Frimpong; Marleen Radigan

Title: School-Based Mental Health in Underserved Communities
Presenters: Julie Owens

Title: Organizational Social Context and Attitudes toward Using EBPs for Children’s Trauma Treatment
Presenters: Marleen Radigan; Eric Frimpong

Title: Implications of Cross-System Findings from Cuyahoga County System of Care Research
Presenters: David Hussey; Chris Stormann; Beth Dague; Karen Ols

Title: Handling Missing Data: The Motivation and Method of Multiple Imputation
Presenters: Elizabeth Stuart

Title: Characteristics of Youth and Families Receiving Informal Support Services
Presenters: Ebony Montgomery

Title: Missing Data and Multiple Imputation: an Overview and Application of Techniques
Presenters: Elizabeth Stuart

Title: Findings in Support of "Communities of Practice" for Practice Change
Presenters: Melanie Barwick; Julia Peters

Title: A Systematic Approach to Revising California's State-wide System for Performance Measurement
Presenters: Ryan Quist

Title: Service Utilization of Children with Mood Disorders: Effects of a Multi-Family Psychoeducation Program
Presenters: Amy Mendenhall

Title: Exploring Differences In Rural and Urban Children: CBCL and Risk Factors at Service Delivery Entrance
Presenters: Joanna Legerski

Title: Decreasing Adolescent Suicidality through a Multiple Component Suicide Prevention Program
Presenters: Sarah Tarquini

Title: Individual and Organizational Predictors of Readiness for School-based Bullying Prevention Program Implementation
Presenters: Charles Cunningham

Title: New Measures for Youth Empowerment and Participation in Planning
Presenters: Janet Walker; Laurie Powers

Title: An Evaluation of a Wraparound Service Program using Real-time Methods
Presenters: Brian Pagkos; Heidi Milch; Mansoor Kazi

Title: The Bridge Project: An Effective Model of Providing Behavioral Health to Asian Americans
Presenters: Teddy Chen

Title: Moving Toward Equity: Adressing Disproportionality at the Local Level through the Local Equity Action Development Process
Presenters: Shana Ritter

Title: Building on Community Strengths: Mapping Housing and Transport Assets for Youths in Transition
Presenters: Beverly Ward

Title: The Rule or the Exception: A Framework for Addressing Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in an Effort to Effectively Respond to What Families Say They Want in Treatment
Presenters: Kelly Graves; Terri Shelton; Claretta Witherspoon

Title: What Does It Take To Make A Knowledge Management Process Like This Work?
Presenters: Malisa Pearson; Matt Wojack; Suzanne Miel-Uken

Title: How Did Impact Create its Continuous Cycle of Improvement?
Presenters: Suzanne Miel-Uken; Matthew Wojack; Malisa Pearson

Title: Risk Factors among Young Children Served in Early Childhood Systems of Care
Presenters: Ilene Berson; Gary Blau

Title: Creating the Capacity to Continuously Improve a System of Care
Presenters: Matthew Wojack

Title: The Reciprocal Relationship between Young Children with Severe Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties and Parenting Stress and Strain
Presenters: Joy Kaufman; Kim Shepardson Watson

Title: Developing a Culturally and Linguistically Competent Workforce
Presenters: Jannina Aristy; Janice Cooper

Title: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Adult Mentoring on Children's Well-being
Presenters: Ellen Lipman

Title: Intermediary Purveyor Organizations: Their Role in EBP Capacity Building and System of Care Development
Presenters: Patrick Kanary; William Carter; David Bernstein; Kelly Feller

Title: Family and School Support Team Supervisor (FASST)
Presenters: Maggie Sanchez

Title: Y Negro A Colores: Meeting the Mental Health Need of Underserved Latinos
Presenters: Britt Rios-Ellis

Title: Community Health Workers: Bridges to Well-Being for Communities
Presenters: Henri Treadwell

Title: Outcomes Studies of Wraparound in the Mental Health, Child Welfare, and Educational Systems
Presenters: Janet Walker; Eric Bruns

Title: The Cycle of Continuous Quality Improvement
Presenters: Matthew Wojack; Malisa Pearson; Suzanne Miel-Uken

Title: Educational Profiles at Enrollment in Systems of Care: A National Perspective
Presenters: Jeffrey Anderson; Ana Maria Brannan; Brigitte Manteuffel

Title: Involving Community Stakeholders in Data Interpretation and Dissemination
Presenters: Katrina Bledsoe; Eileene Chappelle; Jeannette Truxillo; Becca Sanders

Title: Financing Strategies Related to Comprehensive, Customized Service Arrays and Family and Youth Partnership
Presenters: Sheila Pires; Jan McCarthy

Title: Financing Strategies Related to Realignment and Re-Direction of Resources
Presenters: Beth Stroul; Mary Armstrong

Title: Financing Strategies Related to Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Workforce Capacity, and Accountability
Presenters: Ginny Wood

Title: Effective Financing Strategies for Systems of Care: Examples from the Field
Presenters: Mary Armstrong

Title: Examining Collaboration in Children and Youth Mental Health Systems using Social Network Analysis
Presenters: Bhuvana Sukumar; Elana Light

Title: Multiple Approaches to Analyzing and Reporting CANS Data within Systems of Care
Presenters: Vicki Effland; Ann Klein

Title: The Community Youth Development Study: Testing the Communities that Care Prevention System
Presenters: Eric Brown

Title: Integration of Primary Care and Behavioral Health Care for Diverse Communities
Presenters: Mario Hernandez

Title: Using Local Data to Evaluate Educational Outcomes
Presenters: J. Sean Allen

Title: Comparing Academic Progress Over Time in Systems of Care and Usual Services
Presenters: Jeffrey Anderson; John Houser; Robert Stephens; Christine Walrath

Title: Schools and Systems of Care: Challenges and Models for Collaboration from the National Evaluation
Presenters: Charles Seagle; Freda Brashears

Title: Educational Outcomes in Systems of Care: Emerging Evidence?
Presenters: Jeffrey Anderson; Sylvia Fisher

Title: An Exploration of Factors Mediating Disruptions in Young Children's Relationships with Primary Caregivers
Presenters: Ilene Berson; Maria Garcia-Casellas

Title: Creating a System of Care Tailored to Meet the Unique Needs of the Early Childhood Population
Presenters: Elizabeth Masten; Robin Orlando

Title: Trauma Experiences of Children Served by Early Childhood Systems of Care
Presenters: Cindy Crusto; Meghan Finley

Title: Engaging and Recruiting Counties in an Experiment on Implementing Evidence Based Practice
Presenters: Lynne Marsenich

Title: MTAYA Study Methods
Presenters: Bernice Gershenson

Title: Natural Helpers in Behavioral Health Care
Presenters: Mareasa Isaacs

Title: Family Help: Distance Treatment for Child Mental Health Problems
Presenters: Patrick McGrath

Title: Waiting Lists in Canadian Children’s Mental Health: Current Status and Potential Solutions
Presenters: Charles Cunningham

Title: State and Tribal Infrastructure to Reduce Youth Suicide: Capacity, Service Selection and Systems Integration to Serve Youth At Risk
Presenters: Ebony Montgomery

Title: Organizational Culture in Systems of Care
Presenters: Jessica Mazza; Kathleen Ferreira

Title: Mississippi Youth Programs around the Clock (MYPAC)
Presenters: John Young; Kristi Plotner; John Damon; Terry Hight

Title: Modeling Children’s Mental Health Waiting List Reduction Strategies Using Discrete Choice Conjoint Experiments: Parent versus Professional Preferences
Presenters: Charles Cunningham

Title: Gender Differences in Transition Age Arrests
Presenters: Maryann Davis

Title: Behavioral Health Model Development to Promote Evidence-Based Practice in a Statewide System of Care: Extended Day Treatment and Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services
Presenters: Jeffrey Vanderploeg; Jennifer Schroeder; Robert Franks

Title: MTAYA Study Introduction
Presenters: Maryann Davis

Title: The Massachusetts Transition Age Youth Arrest Study
Presenters: Maryann Davis

Title: Substance Use Patterns and Mental Health Diagnosis among Youth in Mental Health Treatment: A Latent Class Analysis
Presenters: Kara Riehman

Title: Characteristics of Children who Deteriorate or Improve in Systems of Care Communities
Presenters: Robert Stephens; Sylvia Fisher

Title: Use of the System of Care Practice Review(SOCPR) for quality improvement, training, Improving cultural competence.
Presenters: John Mayo; Terry Johnson

Title: System of Care Practice Review: A Multi-Year Evaluation in Broward County, Florida
Presenters: Keren Vergon

Title: System of Care Practice Review (SOCPR): A Qualitative Evaluation of the Children's Mental Health System in Ottawa Canada
Presenters: Natasha Tatartcheff-Quesnel

Title: Transition-Aged Mental Health Services and Risk of Adult Arrest
Presenters: Michael Pullmann

Title: A Study of Systems of Care Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Focus on Disparities
Presenters: Phyllis Gyamfi; G. Kurt Moore

Title: An Overview of the CBMCS Multicultural Training Program: Implications for Community Mental Health
Presenters: Glenn Gamst

Title: Using Administrative and Other Data Sources to Address Disparities in Care for Ethnically and Racially Diverse Populations
Presenters: Kamala Allen

Title: Examining the Role of a Statewide Family-Run Organization Utilizing a Case Study Approach and Network Analyses
Presenters: Katherine Lazear; Lisa Conlan; Cathy Ciano; Jason Beckstead; Mary Evans

Title: Community Defined Evidence: A New Paradigm to Measure “What Works” in Communities of Color
Presenters: Ken Martinez

Title: Strength in Numbers: Using Concurrent Measurement to Guide Quality
Presenters: Katherine Grimes; Kay Hodges; Brian Mullin

Title: Community Defined Evidence Models to Measure Practice Effectiveness in Diverse Communities
Presenters: Ken Martinez; Lynn Marsenich

Title: Approaches to Managing Child Mental Health Waitlists in Canada: A Qualitative Investigation
Presenters: John McLennan

Title: Culturally Competent Service Provision in System of Care Communities
Presenters: Kendralin Freeman; Phyllis Gyamfi

Title: Utilizing Administrative/Existing State Data for Policy, Planning and Service Delivery to Address Disparities
Presenters: Larke Huang

Title: Exploring Cultural Biases in Child Welfare Decision Making
Presenters: Donald Baumann; Peter Pecora; John Hedderson; Daniel Capouch

Title: Unlocking Disparities: Provider and Community Perspectives
Presenters: John Fluke; Sylvia Fisher

Title: Academic Functioning of Youth In Residential Care: Changes Over Time
Presenters: Annette Griffith

Title: The Academic Functioning of Youth Admitted To Residential Care
Presenters: Jessica Hagaman

Title: Academic Status of Youth in Out-of-Home Care: A Review of the Literature
Presenters: Alexandra Trout; Jessica Hagaman; Katy Casey; Robert Reid; Michael Epstein

Title: Academic Functioning and Youth Involved in Residential Care
Presenters: Alexandra Trout; Elizabeth Farmer

Title: Considerations for Implementing a Randomized Clinical Trial in Community Mental Health
Presenters: John Vetter; Geneva Strech; Christopher Foote

Title: Impact of Training and Coaching on Wraparound Fidelity: Results of Field Evaluations and Practice Research
Presenters: Jim Rast

Title: From Paper to Performance: Implementation Research and the Wraparound Process
Presenters: Dean Fixsen; Dean Fixsen

Title: Evaluation of Program Effectiveness and Sustainability
Presenters: Kristine Amlund-Hagen

Title: Implementing the PALS School-Wide Intervention Model
Presenters: Mari-Anne Sorlie

Title: Cross Systems System of CARE/Child and Family Teams in North Carolina
Presenters: Kelly Crowley; Elizabeth Dobyns; Elizabeth Meadows; Michael Lancaster

Title: Further Discussion on the Public Health Approach to Mental Health
Presenters: Rachele Espiritu; Joyce Sebian ; Neal Horen

Title: An Empirical Investigation of a Parent Support Program: Parent Connectors
Presenters: Albert Duchnowski; Krista Kutash

Title: Youth Involvement in Research and Evaluation of Systems of Care
Presenters: Richard Chapman; Robert Friedman

Title: Evidence-Based Practices: Advances in the Models for Change States
Presenters: Joseph Cocozza

Title: Culturally-competent, Evidenced-based Practices for the Latino Community
Presenters: Eric Trupin

Title: Family Advocacy and Evidence-Based Practices
Presenters: Darcy Gruttadaro

Title: Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in a Child-Welfare System of Care: Examination of a Statewide System Change
Presenters: Gregory Aarons; David Chambers

Title: Researching Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice: Intervention, Context, and Study Design
Presenters: Gregory Aarons

Title: Large Scale Implementation Model of Evidence Based Programs
Presenters: Terje Ogden

Title: Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice for Child Neglect: Comparison of Clinical and Administrative Perspectives on Implementation Criteria
Presenters: Lawrence Palinkas

Title: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Justice-Involved Youth
Presenters: Joseph Cocozza

Title: Assessing System-wide Conditions for Wraparound Implementation: The Community Supports for Wraparound Inventory
Presenters: Janet Walker; Becca Sanders

Title: Creating a Research Agenda to Promote Effective School-Based Mental Health Research
Presenters: Krista Kutash; Albert Duchnowski; Michael Epstein

Title: The Wraparound Fidelity Assessment System: Measures, Methods, and Data from National Pilot Sites
Presenters: April Sather; Eric Bruns; Kelly Hyde

Title: The Challenges of Changing Public Policy
Presenters: Howard Davidson; Sarah Steverman; Brian Lombrowski; Maia Szalavitz

Title: Unregulated Residential Services: The Challenge to Ensure Quality Services and Protections---Part II
Presenters: Lenore Behar; Robert Friedman

Title: Evidence Based Practices Outcome Measures: Cultural Considerations and Youth and Family Input
Presenters: Cynthia Zubritsky

Title: Longitudinal Impact of Family Functioning on Children Served in Systems of Care
Presenters: Jeffrey Anderson

Title: The State Wraparound Survey, 2007: An Update on Wraparound Implementation across the United States
Presenters: April Sather; Eric Bruns; Leyla Stambaugh

Title: Core Implementation Components and the Wraparound Literature: Building a Research Agenda
Presenters: Rosalyn Bertram; Julie Farr; Kathy Cox

Title: Supporting and Developing Evidence for Community Defined Practices in Diverse Communities: A Multi Site Model in Seattle, Washington
Presenters: Davis Ja

Title: Wraparound in Oklahoma for Children in Child Welfare Custody: Results of a Randomized Study
Presenters: Jim Rast; John Vetter; Jeri Poplin

Title: Using Mixed-Methods for Studying Evidence-Based Practice Implementation
Presenters: Danielle Fettes

Title: Functioning in Transition
Presenters: Nancy Koroloff; Craig Anne Heflinger

Title: Predictors of Progress among Youth in the Partnerships for Youth Transition Demonstration
Presenters: Mason Haber

Title: Community Programs for Transition-Age Youth: Process, Fidelity, and Outcome Findings
Presenters: Hewitt Clark; Nancy Koroloff

Title: Determinants of Retention in a Longitudinal Study using a Multilevel Modeling Approach
Presenters: Tesfayi Gebreselassie

Title: A Latent Class Analysis of Patterns of Respondent Participation in a Longitudinal Outcome Study
Presenters: Ye Xu

Title: Modeling Retention over Time in the CMHS Longitudinal Outcome Study
Presenters: Megan Brooks; Yisong Geng

Title: Expanding Evidence-Based Community Services: The Louisiana Experience
Presenters: Debra DePrato

Title: Retention in a Longitudinal Outcome Study: Modeling Techniques and Practical Implications
Presenters: Robert Stephens; Paul Greenbaum

Title: Culturally Competent Service Provision in System of Care Communities
Presenters: Sylvia Fisher

Title: No Wrong Door, Implementation Plan for Montgomery County Maryland
Presenters: Kiran Dixit; Ayesha Bajwa; Bruno Anthony; Vicki Effland

Title: Evaluating Fidelity of Community Programs for Transition-Aged Youth
Presenters: Nicole Deschenes

Title: The CMHI 14 Years Later: Who has been Served and How have their Characteristics Changed?
Presenters: Christine Walrath; Lucas Garazza; Robert Stephens

Title: Stars Transitional Age Youth Program: Youth Demographics, Utilization and Outcomes
Presenters: Karyn Dresser

Title: Utilizing an Accountability Database to Assess the Impact of Interagency Collaboration
Presenters: Katherine Lazear; Judy Everett; Jeana Matos

Title: Impact of Wraparound within a School-wide System of Positive Behavior Supports
Presenters: Lucille Eber; Kelly Hyde

Title: Implementing and Evaluating Evidence-based Programs Targeting Conduct Problems in Children and Youth in Norway
Presenters: Terje Ogden

Title: Africentrism and Kinship Care: A Study of Implementation and Meaning
Presenters: Vivian Jackson

Title: Addressing Disparities in Access for African-American children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Presenters: Janice Cooper

Title: School Experiences among African-American Adolescents: Implications for Ethnic Identity Development and School Adjustment
Presenters: Erika Van Buren

Title: Predictors of Medication Status and Perceived Benefits: Analysis of Phase 4 Data
Presenters: Christine Walrath; Thomas Pavkov

Title: Applying the Knowledge on Effective Practices for African-American Children, Youth and their Families: Implications for Preventive, Early and Intensive Intervention Strategies
Presenters: Vivian Jackson; Regina Hicks

Title: Who, What, and How of Wraparound: Factors Associated with Positive Outcomes
Presenters: Kathy Cox; Dawniel Baker

Title: Access to Care and Mental Health in Early Adulthood
Presenters: Eric Slade

Title: Transitioning Youth with Mental Health Needs to Meaningful Employment and Independent Living
Presenters: Judith Katz-Leavy

Title: The Effects of Age-defined Eligibility Criteria on Access to Services
Presenters: Maryann Davis; Nancy Koroloff

Presented at the 20th Annual Research Conference

Title: Youth Suicide: Addressing the Issue through Prevention and Intervention
Presenters: Christine Walrath-Greene; Sylvia Fisher

Title: Integrating Evidence-Based Practice in the System of Care
Presenters: Luann Gray

Title: The Impact of Parent Management Training-Oregon Model (PMTO) on the Community
Presenters: Sandy Roethler

Title: The Circle of Care Initiative: Participatory Action Research Fit with Cultural Engagement
Presenters: Doug Novins; Candace Fleming

Title: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in a State Public Mental Health System
Presenters: Jim Wotring

Title: Statewide Initiative to Embed Evidence-Based Treatment in a Public Mental Health System
Presenters: Shari-Beth Goldman

Title: Improving Quality in a System of Care by Implementing an Evidence-Based Practice with Accountability
Presenters: Jim Wotring; Dean Fixsen

Title: Outcome Indicators for Youth's Functioning and Parent's Child Management Skills: Evaluating Parent Management Training--Oregon Model (PMTO) Trainees
Presenters: Kay Hodges

Title: Preliminary Results from the ROLES Revision Project
Presenters: Ann Doucette; Jonathan Heufner; Kirk O'Brien; Ronald Thompson; Mary Beth Rauktis

Title: The Measurement and Management of Outcomes at Different Levels of the System for Children's Mental Health
Presenters: Tim Gawron; John Lyons

Title: Evaluation of Suicide Prevention Programs and Integration of Suicide Prevention into Systems of Care: An Overview of the Cross-site Evaluation of the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Suicide Prevention Initiative
Presenters: Angela Sheehan

Title: Congruence of Caregiver and Youth Reports of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts
Presenters: Anna Krivelyova; Robert Stephens

Title: How and Why does Health Service Access Vary across Racial/Ethnic Groups for Children in the Child Welfare System?
Presenters: Rebecca Wells

Title: Caregiver Risk Factors and Service Use
Presenters: Barbara Burns

Title: American Indian and Alaska Native Systems of Care: The Path to Evaluation
Presenters: Brigitte Manteuffel; Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: Featherless Bipeds: How Definitions Impact System Implementation
Presenters: Sharon Hodges; Larke Huang; Mario Hernandez

Title: Utilizing CAFAS Data to Understand Service Delivery within an Intensive Home-Based Program for Child and Adolescents with Serious Emotional Disorders
Presenters: Christian Connell; Janet Anderson

Title: Mental Health Needs and Service Utilization among Children and Families in the Child Welfare System: Recent Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
Presenters: E. Wayne Holden; Mary Bruce Webb

Title: Behavioral/Emotional Problems and Mental Health Service Utilization among Very Young Children in the Child Welfare System
Presenters: Heather Ringeisen

Title: Suicide Attempt Subsequent to Entering System of Care Services: How Often Does it Happen, and to Whom?
Presenters: Christine Walrath-Greene

Title: Child Neglect - An Overview of Reporting and Incidence
Presenters: John Fluke; John Gaudiosi

Title: Current Research on Wraparound: Implications for Future Development and Research
Presenters: John VanDenBerg; Gary Blau

Title: Medication Use among Youth in System of Care Initiatives: A Longitudinal Analysis
Presenters: Christine Walrath-Greene; Thomas Pavkov

Title: Patterns of Medication Prescribing for Children and Adolescents in the Massachusetts Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems
Presenters: John Straus; Suzanne Fields

Title: African American and Hispanic ParentsÕ Attitudes about ChildrenÕs Mental Health Services in Primary Care Settings
Presenters: Jonathan Brown

Title: Defining Effectiveness in Culturally Based Programs: A Research Report.
Presenters: Terry Cross; Nichole Maher; Barbara Friesen

Title: Building a Science on Implementation and Dissemination Within a State Policy Context
Presenters: David Woodlock; Kimberly Hoagwood; Paige Pierce; Katherine Maciol; Leslie Lynn Long

Title: Outcome Indicator ÒDashboardÓ Helps Sustain Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts at the Provider Level
Presenters: Kay Hodges ; Jim Wotring; Yange Xue

Title: A Preliminary Logic Model Addressing Suicide Issues in System of Care Communities
Presenters: Sylvia Fisher

Title: Using Encounter and Outcome Data to Guide Management of Behavioral Health Services in Ontario
Presenters: Melanie Barwick

Title: Defining Interagency Collaboration through a Common Understanding of Systems of Care
Presenters: Dane Cervine

Title: Implementation Challenges in Wrapping Interventions Around Families Living with Parental Mental Illness
Presenters: Joanne Nicholson; Beth Hinden; Joan Mikula

Title: Developing, Integrating and Using the CANS in Two Systems of Care
Presenters: Ann Klein; Knute Rotto; John Lyons

Title: Long-Term Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Neglect
Presenters: Cathy Spatz Widom

Title: Three Examples of Using Indicators of Child/Adolescent Functioning to Manage ChildrenÕs Behavioral Health Services
Presenters: Christopher Counihan; Ann Doucette

Title: Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities: One Piece of the Puzzle - A Diverse and Culturally and Linguistically Competent Workforce
Presenters: Vivian Jackson; Joan Dodge; D.J. Ida

Title: A Community Perspective on the Value and Challenges of a Cross-Cultural Evaluation Process
Presenters: Laura Baez

Title: Examining the Interface between Very High Need Schools and Mental Health Systems
Presenters: David Osher ; Neil Pessin; Andrew Bell; Greg Greicius; Kimberly Kendziora

Title: Innovating and Expanding the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Model
Presenters: Taylor Young; Gerald Atchley; Melinda Moore; Linda Mix

Title: Assessing System Supports for Wraparound: The Community Supports for Wraparound Inventory
Presenters: Janet Walker; Eric Bruns; Jim Rast

Title: Pilot Testing of Three New Wraparound Fidelity Measures
Presenters: Jim Rast; Eric Bruns

Title: Characteristics of Neglect and Outcomes for Children Who Experience Neglect
Presenters: Diana English

Title: Developing Measures for Wraparound Implementation
Presenters: Eric Bruns; Knute Rotto

Title: Incidence and Short and Long Term Consequences of Childhood Neglect
Presenters: Diana English; Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice: The Role of Leadership and Provider Attitudes
Presenters: Gregory Aarons

Title: State Evidence-Based Practices for ChildrenÕs Mental HealthÑMeasurement and Implementation Challenges
Presenters: E. Wayne Holden; Dean Fixsen

Title: Update on State Mental Health AgenciesÕ Strategies for Disseminating Evidence-Based Practices
Presenters: Jeanne Rivard

Title: The New York State Office of Mental Health Evidence-Based Training and Dissemination Center Initiative (EBTDC) on Cognitive Behavior Treatment for Depression and Trauma
Presenters: Kimberly Hoagwood

Title: Measuring State Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice Implementation and Sustainability
Presenters: Heather Ringeisen

Title: The Path to Cultural Competence Within a National Evaluation Framework: The American Indian and Alaska Native Experience
Presenters: Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: Pilot Testing of the Wraparound Fidelity Index, Version 4
Presenters: Eric Bruns; April Sather

Title: Integrating Management Information Systems with System of Care Philosophy: The LA-YES Approach
Presenters: Anna Lundberg

Title: A Partnership Model Study between Juvenile Justice and Community Mental Health
Presenters: Stephen Kapp; Mary Lee Robbins; J. J. Choi

Title: Addressing Abuse and Mistreatment of Youth Placed in Residential "Treatment" Facilities
Presenters: Allison Pinto; Robert Friedman

Title: Building Bridges with Residential Treatment Providers
Presenters: Robert Friedman

Title: Youth and Parent Perspectives on Residential Programs for ÒTroubled TeensÓ
Presenters: Allison Pinto; Christina Kloker Young

Title: Bringing Collaboratives Together to Transform Policy and Implement a Newly Designed Behavioral Health System.
Presenters: Jacquelyn Shipp; Debbie Spaeth

Title: Advancing an Agenda to Strengthen Federal, Tribal, State and Local Policies for Children, Youth and Families Who Experience Trauma
Presenters: Janice Cooper; Mary Compo; Tim Gawron; Arabella Perez; Julie Young; Deborah Painte

Title: NIMH/CMHS Program Announcement (PA): Effectiveness, Practice, and Implementation in CMHS' Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and their Families Service Sites
Presenters: Carmen Moten; Amy Goldstein

Title: Pathways to Desistance in Serious Juvenile Offenders and Mental Health Considerations
Presenters: He Len Chung

Title: Arrests During the Transition to Adulthood; Gender and Public Mental Health System Involvement
Presenters: Maryann Davis; William Fisher

Title: Civic Functioning and Mental Health During the Transition to Adulthood
Presenters: Maryann Davis

Title: Identifying and Responding to Concerns Regarding Abuse and Mistreatment in Residential "Treatment" Programs
Presenters: Lenore Behar; Bill Boyles

Title: Implementation of Behavioral Health Overlay Services in a Pediatric Medical Home
Presenters: Kathleen Wilson; Joni Hollis

Title: Implementing an Evidence-Based Therapeutic Foster Visitation Program within Systems of Care
Presenters: Marian Silverman; Adam Stein

Title: Mental Health and Spirituality among Youth in Foster Care
Presenters: Peter Pecora

Title: Predicting AdolescentsÕ Willingness to Seek Help for Mental Illness from Formal vs. Informal Sources
Presenters: AJLANA MUSIC

Title: Wraparound with Child Welfare Families
Presenters: W. Lee Oesterle

Title: School-Based Mental Health and Support Services: From Pilot Graveyards to Sustainable Comprehensive Systems Change
Presenters: Evelyn Frankford

Title: Overlooking Deterioration Among Less-Impaired Clients: A Risk of Pre-Post Evaluation Designs
Presenters: Deborah Sherwood; Sai-Ling Chan-Sew

Title: School Parent Empowerment Project
Presenters: Serene Olin; Maura Crowe; Priscilla Shorter

Title: MTFC Hawaii: Integrating an Evidence-Based Practice into an Established System of Care
Presenters: Teru Morton

Title: Developing the Rural Behavioral Health Care Workforce for Children and Families
Presenters: Joyce Sebian; Jennifer Kitson; Dennis Mohatt; Karen Francis

Title: Transformation Facilitation: A Model for Providing Intensive Technical Assistance (TA) to States
Presenters: Sybil Goldman; Rachele Espiritu; Lan Le

Title: Establishing Effective Partnerships in Early Childhood Systems with Families and across Agencies
Presenters: Lori Connors-Tadros

Title: Outcomes of Wraparound in Oklahoma: Results of a Randomized Study
Presenters: John Vetter; Jim Rast; John VanDenBerg

Title: Arrests During the Transition to Adulthood; Young Adults in State Adult Mental Health Services
Presenters: William Fisher; Maryann Davis

Title: Multisystemic Therapy Supervision Model: Impact of Supervisors on Therapists and Youth Outcomes
Presenters: Lisa Reiter-Lavery

Title: Building Evaluation Using the System of Care Concept
Presenters: Mary Brogan

Title: San Diego CountyÕs Experience Measuring Wraparound Fidelity
Presenters: Delrena Swaggerty; Jennifer Rolls Reutz

Title: Utilizing the Participant Rating Form to Assess Child and Family Team Functioning and Enhance Wraparound Fidelity
Presenters: James Cook; Ryan Kilmer; Libby Cable; Kimm Campbell

Title: Central Massachusetts Communities of Care Logic Model
Presenters: Melodie Wenz-Gross

Title: Monroe County Logic Model Process
Presenters: Jody Levison-Johnson

Title: Theories of Change from a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Perspective: Logic Modeling, Measuring Performance and Benchmarking
Presenters: Angela Sheehan; Sharon Hodges; Mario Hernandez

Title: Using Logic Models as a Framework for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Efforts: Results from the CMHS CQI Benchmarking Initiative
Presenters: Angela Sheehan

Title: Coordination and Collaboration of School-Based Services: Roles, Responsibilities, and Outcomes
Presenters: Olivia Davis

Title: Assessing School-Based Mental Health Needs and Services: Implications for Maximizing Youth Outcomes
Presenters: Diana Mcintosh; Monica Mitchell

Title: Results from a CMHS Demonstration of Integrated Wraparound and Multisystemic Therapy
Presenters: Leyla Stambaugh

Title: A Pilot Study of State Regulations Pertaining to Youth Residential Treatment Programs
Presenters: Judith Katz-Leavy; Lenore Behar; Robert Friedman; Allison Pinto

Title: Training and Supervision: What is Usual about Treatment as Usual?
Presenters: Kathleen Carroll

Title: How a Shared Definition for System of Care Supports Family Involvement
Presenters: Beth Baxter

Title: A State-Wide CBT Clinician Training and Consultation Model: Evidence-Based Practice Engagement Strategies
Presenters: Kimberly Hoagwood

Title: Psychotropic Medication Utilization at a Group Home Residential Care Facility
Presenters: Ronald Thompson

Title: The Impact of School-Based Mental Health Services on Student Behavior and Functioning
Presenters: Clay Gemmill; Paul Thomlinson

Title: Relationships between School/Residential Transitions and Mental Health Functioning for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance
Presenters: Monica Mitchell

Title: Making It On Your Own: Social Support and Mental Health for Former Foster Youth
Presenters: Cheri Hoffman

Title: Utilizing Organizational Change Models in the Development of a Theory of Change: Examples from the Harris County Systems of Hope Logic Model
Presenters: Demori Driver; Jeannette Truxillo

Title: Researching the Needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth in Systems of Care
Presenters: Sylvia Fisher; Jeffrey Poirier

Title: Coaching: A Key to Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Practices Implementation
Presenters: Dean Fixsen

Title: Risk Adjustment Methods for Mental Health Evaluation Research
Presenters: John Robst

Title: Building Research Capacity in the Child Mental Health Agency: Collaborative Strategies for Transformation
Presenters: MIchelle Solloway

Title: Practical Strategies Identified by Statistical Simulations to Address Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of Youth in Foster Care
Presenters: Kirk O'Brien; Peter Pecora

Title: Against the Odds: Addressing Race/Ethnicity Barriers via Systems of Care
Presenters: Sara Nechasek; Ariel Greenidge

Title: Outcomes in Residential Care vs. Intensive In-Home Therapy: A Propensity Score Analysis
Presenters: Richard Barth; Sarah Hurley; Tim Goldsmith

Title: The National Behavior Research and Coordination Center: Overview and Year 1 Findings
Presenters: William Sumi

Title: Partnerships for Youth Transition (PYT): Evaluating Progress of PYT Community Initiatives
Presenters: Hewitt Clark; Diane Sondheimer

Title: Evaluating and Prioritizing EBTs for Implementation Statewide
Presenters: Laurel Kiser; Michelle Zabel

Title: Prioritizing and Scaling Up Evidence-Based Programs
Presenters: Frances Wallace; Karen Blase

Title: Going to Scale with Multiple Evidence-Based Practices: Organization, Community, and State Perspectives
Presenters: Jacquie Brown; David Bernstein; Jennifer Atler; Teru Morton

Title: Assessing the Landscape: Evidence-Based Practices
Presenters: Patrick Kanary

Title: Child Protection, Education, and Systems of Care: Barriers and Opportunities for Collaboration
Presenters: John Fluke; Sylvia Fisher; Ilene Berson

Title: Partnering with Youth in Evaluation: Engagement, Energy, Innovation and Outcomes
Presenters: Alexandra Krynski; Gwen White; Robin Orlando

Title: Connecting Inpatient and Residential Treatment to Systems of Care
Presenters: Nor’n Dollard; Gary Blau

Title: Investigating the Relationship between Services and Outcomes in a Program for Transition aged Youth
Presenters: Nancy Koroloff; Mike Pullmann; Lynwood Gordon

Title: Measuring Wraparound Fidelity in Indiana's Systems of Care
Presenters: Janet McIntyre

Title: Implementation of the Consumer Services Review (CSR) in Indiana
Presenters: Ivor Groves; Janet McIntyre

Title: Implementation of the CANS for Assessment and Quality Management across Children's Services
Presenters: John Lyons; Betty Walton

Title: Applying Research to Transformation: Predicting Improvement for Children in Systems of Care
Presenters: Betty Walton

Title: Using Data to Transform Indiana's Behavioral Health System for Children and Families
Presenters: Robert Friedman; Robert Friedman

Title: Research Based Engagement Strategies: A Concept Mapping Project
Presenters: Brenda Scafidi; William Hydaker ; Lenore Behar

Title: The CMHI Evidence-Based Practices Study; Past, Present, and Possible Future
Presenters: Angela Sheehan; Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: Innovative Community Efforts to Support Early Childhood Mental Health
Presenters: Allison Pinto; Ilene Berson; Donna Dent; Elena Gonzalez; Thomas Washington

Title: Race/Ethnicity and Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Patterns for Youth
Presenters: Courtney Rice

Title: School Functioning Over Time among Students Served in a System of Care
Presenters: Jeffrey Anderson

Title: Implementation and Adaptation of Evidence-Based Treatment for American Indian and Alaskan Native Children Exposed to Trauma
Presenters: Dolores Subia BigFoot; Holly Echo-Hawk

Title: Infrastructure Development for Implementing and Integrating Culturally Adapted Evidence-Based Practices into a System of Care for American Indian Youth in Oklahoma
Presenters: Jami Bartgis

Title: School/Community-Based Prevention of American Indian Youth Suicide
Presenters: Teresa LaFromboise

Title: Findings from a Random Controlled Trial of a Statewide Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation System
Presenters: Walter Gilliam

Title: The Evidence Base for Child and Family Outcomes Resulting from Mental Health Consultation: A Research Synthesis
Presenters: Eileen Brennan; Mary Dallas Allen

Title: Mental Health Consultation in Preschool Classrooms: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Trial in Head Start Settings
Presenters: C. Cybele Raver

Title: The Development of Fidelity Measures for Youth Transition Programs
Presenters: Nicole Deschnes; Hewitt B. ÒRustyÓ Clark

Title: Partnerships for Youth Transition (PYT) Community Initiatives: Evaluating Some of the Cross-Site Findings
Presenters: Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark; Arun Karpur; Nicole Deschenes; Peter Gamache

Title: Strengthening Intergenerational/Intercultural Ties in Immigrant Families: A Culturally-Based Intervention
Presenters: Yu-Wen Ying

Title: Revision of the Restrictiveness of Living Environment Scale (ROLES)
Presenters: Jonathan Huefner; Ann Doucette; Kirk O'Brien; Ronald Thompson; Mary Beth Rauktis

Title: Access to Public Substance Use Services for Rural Youth in Juvenile Justice
Presenters: Michael Pullmann; Craig Anne Heflinger

Title: Supporting the Self-Determination of Youth with Disabilities in Foster Care
Presenters: Laurie Powers

Title: Influence of Community Characteristics in the System of Care
Presenters: Erica Luboyeski; Sasha Berger; Jeff Sieracki; Scott Leon

Title: Impact of MAYSI-2 Mental Health Screening in Juvenile Detention
Presenters: Valerie Williams

Title: Mental Health Care Issues Facing Children and Adolescents in Rural Communities
Presenters: Daniel Leland; Craig Anne Heflinger

Title: Employment Outcomes of Caregivers in Systems of Care
Presenters: Anna Krivelyova; Teresa King; Chris Storman

Title: Mental Health Consultation in Early Education Settings: Building the Research Base
Presenters: Judith Meyers; Roxane Kaufmann

Title: Evaluating the Development, Dissemination and Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices and Products in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Presenters: Elizabeth Douglas

Title: Implementation of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Group Interventions for Youth
Presenters: Mason Haber; Holly Hills

Title: Childre?n's Mental Health Services: Investigating Factors Related to Help-Seeking and Service Utilization Patterns
Presenters: Juliana Tobon

Title: The Utility of Consumer Surveys for Improving the Quality of Behavioral Healthcare
Presenters: J. Randy Koch; Mary Shawver; Karen Cropsey; Rehana Kader

Title: Mental Health Service Utilization among Medicaid Eligible Hispanic Children
Presenters: Paul Greenbaum; Wei Wang; Svetlana Yampolskaya; Mario Hernandez

Title: Evaluating the Statewide Implementation and Outcomes of Evidence-Based Practice: Preliminary Results of Connecticutt's Multisystemic Therapy Progress Report
Presenters: Jennifer Schroeder; Michael Connell

Title: Program Adaptation without Compromising Program Fidelity: The Experience of a Model Program
Presenters: Pat Davenport

Title: Defining What We Mean by Mental Health Disparity: Finding a Shared Definition to Drive Research and Development in the Field
Presenters: Laurel Friedman

Title: The Near Future of ChildrenÕs Mental Health Practice: A Practice-Based Research Network
Presenters: Geoffrey Moore

Title: A Needs Assessment of Conflict in Systems of Care
Presenters: Mary Evans; Robyn Boustead

Title: Utilizing State-Wide Administrative Data Bases to Follow Postsecondary Outcomes for Youth with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disturbances
Presenters: Arun Karpur; Mason Haber; Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark

Title: Bridging Treatment and Prevention through Social Emotional Learning Programs
Presenters: Al Duchnowski; Mark Greenberg

Title: Evidence-Based Practice Controversies within the Context of the Accountability Movement
Presenters: Shelley Spear; Albert Duchnowski; Rosa Warder; Todd Sosna

Title: Family/Parent Partners Making Family-Driven Care Work in the Real World
Presenters: Trina Osher; Gary Blau ; David Osher ; Marlene Penn ; Jane Adams

Title: SPECIAL ISSUES MEETING: Suicide Issues in Systems of Care
Presenters: Steve Roggenbaum; Sylvia Fisher

Title: Multi-Site Web-Based Data Collection, Management, and Reporting Systems
Presenters: Brigitte Manteuffel; Spencer Clark; Jim Strasser; Melodie Wenz-Gross

Title: High-Fidelity Wraparound: A Single-Subject, Multiple-Baseline Study of Eight Youths
Presenters: Jim Rast

Title: Early Childhood Collaborative Partnerships in Southwest Missouri
Presenters: Paul Thomlinson

Title: An Evaluation of Collaboration and Communication among Trauma Centers in the NCTSN Network
Presenters: Bhuvana Sukumar;

Title: Black Fathers of Children with Special Needs: A Qualitative Study
Presenters: James Bridgers, Jr.; Cecil Doggette; Suzanne Randolph; Jessie MacKinnon; Oliver Roy

Title: The Phase V Evidence-Based Practices Study: Plans and Preliminary Findings
Presenters: Geoffrey Moore

Title: Through a Cultural Looking Glass: Improving Services for Diverse Youth and Families
Presenters: Larke Nahme Huang; Kana Enomoto

Title: Predictors of Intake Attendance for Asian American Youth at an Asian-Oriented Ethnic-Specific Mental Health Program
Presenters: Phillip Akutsu; Garyn Tsuru; Joyce Chu

Title: Validity of Caregiver Reports of Children's Grades in a System of Care
Presenters: Jeffrey Allen; Michael Steinert; Camille Patterson

Title: National Estimates of U. S. Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities and their use of Mental Health Services
Presenters: Gloria Simpson

Title: Mental Illness Stigma and its Correlates among Adolescent Wraparound Clients
Presenters: Tally Moses

Title: Social Supports for Youth and Families
Presenters: Joan Kernan; Marie Morilus-Black

Title: Accountability for Meeting Youth and Family Needs across System of Care Partners
Presenters: Kay Hodges

Title: The PEAK Project-Teaching Caregivers to be their Child's Best Advocate
Presenters: Dwane Dykes; Catherine Panzarella; Mary Tillery

Title: Treatment within a Child Welfare Setting: Assessing Parent Skills and Child Outcomes
Presenters: Barbara Hull

Title: Igniting the Transformation Process through Hope and Self-Confidence: The Prevention, Access, Self-Empowerment and Support (PASS) Program: A Culturally-Responsive Youth Development Program
Presenters: Janice Cooper; Lenore Reid-Rose; Dana Finley

Title: Evaluation of the Full Purpose Partnership Program
Presenters: John Houser; Jeffrey Anderson

Title: A Model of Mental Health Literacy among Caregivers of Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance
Presenters: Christine Davis; Mary Armstrong; Richard Smith

Title: Integrating Web-Based Data Management Tools to Assess the Impact of School-Based Programs
Presenters: Alisha Nichols

Title: Whatever Can go Wrong Will: Implementation Research and Bureaucratic Change in Child Welfare
Presenters: Rosalyn Bertram

Title: An Applied Cultural Competence Assessment in a System of Care: Hearing the Voices of Frontline Staff
Presenters: Maritza Concha

Title: Analyzing a System of Care using a Unique Cost/Benefit Model
Presenters: Denise Green

Title: Organizational Supports for Evidence-Based Practice Implementation: Findings from the 2005 EBP Survey of Mental Health Providers in the Community-Based Service System
Presenters: Angela Sheehan

Title: The Departure Status of Youth from Residential Group Care: Implications for Aftercare
Presenters: Michael Epstein

Title: A Complexity Approach to Systems of Care
Presenters: Allison Pinto; Richard Puddy; Melissa Van Dyke; Frances Wallace

Title: Defining and Applying Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices and Behavioral Supports
Presenters: L. Felice Reddy; Todd Glover; Mark DeKraai

Title: Nurse-Family Partnership Program Replication Infrastructure and Process: Lessons Learned
Presenters: Peggy Hill; Kellie Teter

Title: Community Development Teams: Bridging the Gap between Intervention Developers and Real World Service Systems
Presenters: Lynne Marsenich

Title: Linking School Mental Health and Systems of Care
Presenters: Joyce Sebian; Mark Weist; Nancy Lever; Joan Dodge

Title: Family Integrated Transitions (FIT): Reducing Juvenile Justice Recidivism in a Cost-Effective Manner
Presenters: Terry Lee; Joseph Cocozza; Eric Trupin; Suzanne Kerns

Title: Juvenile Justice Outcomes: Measuring Success in a System of Care
Presenters: Ann Klein; James Papp

Title: Implementation Capacity for Evidence-Based Practices: Supply, Demand, and Bridging the Gap
Presenters: Karen Blase

Title: State Efforts Enhancing Treatment Systems for Adolescents with Substance Use/Co-Occurring Disorders
Presenters: Kate Kraft; Steve Hornberger; Chair; Doreen Cavanaugh; Sharon Smith

Title: Making Better Use of Data from the Child Mental Health Services Demonstration Project
Presenters: Phil Leaf; Robert Stephens; Christine Walrath-Greene

Title: Ethnic Disparities in Special Education Placement among Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Presenters: David Mandell

Title: Studying the Congruence Between System of Care Service Plans and Actual Targets of Treatment
Presenters: Mary Brogan; Charles Mueller

Title: Caregiver Involvement: Service Planning and Positive Outcomes
Presenters: Adjoa Robinson

Title: What Have we Learned from the CMHS Systems of Care Initiative to Date?
Presenters: Philip Leaf; Larke Huang; Sandra Spencer; Barbara Friesen

Title: What Have we Learned about System Development and Change?
Presenters: Mario Hernandez

Title: What Have we Learned about Child and Family Related Outcomes?
Presenters: Ana Maria Brannan; Robert Stephens; Christine Walrath-Greene

Title: What Have we Learned about Service Experiences and Outcomes?
Presenters: Eric Bruns

Title: Using Administrative Data to Monitor Adolescent Treatment Quality/Performance: Dilemmas and Challenges
Presenters: Ann Doucette; Doreen Cavanaugh; Brian Mullen

Title: Childrens' and Adolescents' Perceptions of Stigmatization of and Treatment Options for Peers with Depression, ADHD, and Asthma
Presenters: Janet Walker; Barbara Friesen

Title: Wraparound Fidelity in Systems of Care Sites and Association with Outcomes
Presenters: Eric Bruns; Kristen Leverentz-Brady

Title: The Impact of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Executive Function Deficits on Learning and Behavior
Presenters: Chris Zeigler Dendy; Christina Kloker Young

Title: Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in Ethnically Diverse Communities: Health Services Implications
Presenters: Loriena Yancura ; Barbara Yee

Title: Systems Transformation: Scaling Up Multiple Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs)
Presenters: Karen Blase; Phillip Crandall; Karen Lofts Jarboe; Cynthia Sutcliffe; Helene Barney

Title: Cross-Setting Consistent and Setting Specific Strength Behaviors in Preschoolers: Influence on Reported Concerns
Presenters: Scott Rosas

Title: Financing Structures and Strategies to Support an Effecetive System of Care
Presenters: Mary Armstrong

Title: Access, Capacity, and Implementation Strategies of Developers of Evidence-Based Programs
Presenters: Sandra Naoom

Title: Practice Elements Utilized in the Treatment of Youth with Disruptive Behavior Disorder Demonstrating High and Low Levels of Success
Presenters: Roxanna Stumpf

Title: Quality and School Mental Health
Presenters: Mark Weist; Nancy Lever; Carl Paternite; Steve Evans

Title: Disparities in ChildrenÕs Mental Health Systems of Care
Presenters: Philip Leaf; Larke Huang; Sandra Spencer

Title: Disparities in Need and Disparities in Outcome. What Have we Learned to date through the National Evaluation?
Presenters: John Gilford; Christine Walrath-Greene; Phil Leaf

Title: Provider Practices: The Importance of Cultural Competence when Working with Racial and Ethnic Minority Children and Families
Presenters: Robert Stephens; Ye Xu; Phyllis Gyamfi

Title: Financing to Support Family and Youth Partnerships
Presenters: Beth Stroul; Ginny Wood

Title: Financing to Support a Broad Array of Services and Support
Presenters: Sheila Pires

Title: Graduate Certificate in Children's Mental Health
Presenters: Carol MacKinnon-Lewis ; Laurel Friedman ; Christine Wienke Totura

Title: Demographic Disparities in the CMHS Demonstration Projects
Presenters: Richard Miech

Title: Supporting Parent-Professional Collaboration through Strength-Based Assessment
Presenters: Paul LeBuffe

Title: Building Research Capacity in the Child Mental Health Agency: Collaborative Strategies for Transformation
Presenters: MIchelle Solloway

Title: Discovering Parent Empowerment: Findings from Two Evaluations of Parent Advocate Trainings
Presenters: Belinda Ramos; Geraldine Burton; Nicole McDonald; James Rodriguez; Kimberly Hoagwood

Title: Perception of Inpatient Acute Level Psychiatric Care for Children and Youth
Presenters: Bela Sood; Bryce Mcleod; Robin Matsuyama

Title: Outcomes of CASSP-Based Consultation Model and Fiscal Analysis in Children's Mental Health
Presenters: T. Orvin Fillman; Virginia Shaw; Michael Rimm

Title: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices within Systems of Care: Implications for Staff Turnover
Presenters: David Sommerfeld; Gregory Aarons

Title: Defining What We Mean by Mental Health Disparity: Finding a Shared Definition to Drive Research and Development in the Field
Presenters: Catherine Batsche; David Chiriboga; Mario Hernandez; Laurel Friedman Friedman

Title: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: An Evidence-Based Practice within a System of Care
Presenters: Ryan Quist; Emma Girard

Title: Parent Child Interaction Therapy in Systems of Care: Treatment Outcomes for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Real World Settings
Presenters: Bhuvana Sukumar; Cheryl McNeil

Title: Utilization of Individual versus Family Therapy among Adolescents with Severe Emotional Disturbance
Presenters: Kelly Graves; Terri Shelton; Maria Fernandez

Title: Child and Family Team Practice Improvement Reviews in Maricopa County, Phoenix, AZ.
Presenters: Toni Tramontana; Nick Thelen; Lynette Tolliver

Title: Treatment Costs for Children and Families Receiving Parent Child Interaction Therapy or Services as Usual in a System of Care Setting
Presenters: Anna Krivelyova; Bhuvana Sukumar; Robert Stephens

Title: A Network Analysis Approach to Examining the Role of Family Organizations in Systems of Care
Presenters: Katherine Lazear; Mary Evans; Lisa Conlon

Title: Demonstrating Value in a System of Care: A Review of Expenditures and Outcomes
Presenters: James Papp; Temple Parker; Rhonda Craig

Title: Urban-Rural Differences in Use of the Emergency Room, TennCare 1996-2002
Presenters: Craig Anne Heflinger

Title: Disparities in the Level of Care Placement of African American and Caucasian Youth with Substance Use Disorders
Presenters: Mesfin Mulatu; Deirdre Rice-Reese

Title: Attrition from Children's Mental Health Treatment: A Social Cognitive Approach
Presenters: Diana Urajnik

Title: Recurrence of Child Maltreatment: A Two-Part Latent Growth Curve Model
Presenters: Svetlana Yampolskaya; Paul Greenbaum

Title: Discharge Status and Associated Behavioral Health Care Costs in a Wraparound Services Program
Presenters: Jennifer Taub

Title: Applying Complexity and Storytelling in Systems of Care to Respond to Multigenerational Trauma
Presenters: Allison Pinto; Gregory Long

Title: The ÒParent ConnectorsÓ Program: An Empirical Investigation of a Parent Support Program
Presenters: Albert Duchnowski; Krista Kutash; Nancy Lynn; Stephanie Romney

Presented at the 19th Annual Research Conference

Title: Capacity Building through Training Family Members to Become Staying Strong Coaches
Presenters: Katherine Levine; Javier Martinez; Carlos Alvarez

Title: Wraparound Fidelity: Different Aspects
Presenters: Eleanor Castillo; Vestena Robbins

Title: School Functioning for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance Enrolled in a Multisite Wraparound Program
Presenters: Jennifer Taub; Melissa Pearrow

Title: Baby Steps: Continued Innovations in Early Identification and Service Access
Presenters: D. Russell Lyman

Title: Interagency Data Sharing: University-State Partnerships in Systems of Care Evaluation
Presenters: Jennifer Taub

Title: Sustainability of Starting Early Starting Smart Programs
Presenters: J. Fred Springer

Title: Parent Empowerment: Actualizing Community Collaborative Methodologies
Presenters: Adam Stein; James Rodriguez; Geraldine Burton; Belinda Ramos

Title: Improving the Quality of Services in Residential Treatment Centers: A Consultative Model
Presenters: Thomas Pavkov

Title: The Relationship Between Fidelity to Wraparound and Outcomes
Presenters: Enrica Bertoldo; Kathleen Cox

Title: Staff Education and Training for Systems Change: Joint Efforts of Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
Presenters: Marsali Hansen

Title: Efforts by State Mental Health Agencies to Improve Residential Care and Eliminate Seclusion and Restraint
Presenters: Lesley Slavin; Janice Le Bel; Timothy Murphy; Elizabeth Hill

Title: The Wraparound Fidelity Index (WFI) as a Framework for Service Delivery
Presenters: Joshua Berry

Title: Wraparound Supervisor Adherence Measure (W-SAM)
Presenters: Eleanor Castillo

Title: Comparison of Mental Health and Service Use in Rural versus Non-Rural Areas
Presenters: Ana Maria Brannan

Title: Various Strategies for Promoting, Implementing, and Surviving System Change: Steps Toward Transformation
Presenters: Kay Hodges; Dean Fixsen

Title: Transforming Human Services: A National View of the Pieces of the Puzzle
Presenters: Dean Fixsen

Title: The Brown County Story: Baby Steps
Presenters: Scott Shackelford

Title: Conclusions
Presenters: Sharon Hodges

Title: Applying Evidence-Based Practice in Real World Settings II: Hands-On Demonstration, Practice, and Discussion
Presenters: Eliot Goldman; Peter Jensen; Karen Wells

Title: Applying Evidence-Based Practice in Real World Settings I: Does it Work? Can it Work? Voices from the Field
Presenters: Natoshia Raishevich; Peter Jensen; John Lochman; Nancy Cunningham; Danielle Heller

Title: Qualitative Research Methods – Useful Research Tools for Front-Line Services
Presenters: Benjamin Stride-Darnley

Title: Bridging Systems of Care in Rural Communities
Presenters: Kathy Compton; Philip Suman

Title: Community Integration of Transition-Age Youth: Voices of Youth and Young Adults
Presenters: Jean Kruzich; Lacey VanKirk; Lynwood Gordon

Title: Agency Level Steps Involved in Implementing Evidence-Based Practices (EPBs) within a System of Care
Presenters: Shari Goldman

Title: Who's Minding the Meds? Prescribing Patterns for Youth with Serious Emotional Disorders by Provider Type
Presenters: Katherine Grimes; Lauren Gold

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