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National Resources

National Partners

Portland Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, National Wraparound Initiative
The National Wraparound Initiative (NWI) is part of the Portland Research and Training Center. The Center's activities focus on improving services to families whose children have mental, emotional or behavioral disorders through a set of related research and training programs. The National Wraparound Initiative is an attempt to engage experts nationally in a process of defining standards and compiling specific strategies for conducting high-quality Wraparound.

National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University
The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health is part of the Georgetown University Child Development Center. Located in the Nation's capital, the mission of the Georgetown TA Center is to assist states and communities in building systems of care that are child-and family-centered, culturally competent, coordinated and community-based. Since 1984, NTAC has been serving as a national resource center for policy and technical assistance to improve service delivery and outcomes for children and adolescents with, or at risk of, serious emotional disturbance and their families.

Systems of Care SAMHSA
A national governmental website devoted to providing information about the mental health of children, youth and families within a system of care philosophy.

Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
The FFCMH is a national family-run organization that serves to: provide advocacy at the national level for the rights of children and youth with emotional, behavioral and mental health challenges and their families; provide leadership and technical assistance to a nation-wide network of family-run organizations; and collaborate with family-run and other child-serving organizations to transform mental health care in America.

Buddin Praed Foundation
The Buddin Praed Foundation is a public charitable foundation committed to improving the well being of children and families. Through research and development of decision support and outcomes management tools and methods, their mission is to improve the quality of publicly funded social services for children and families.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Headquartered in Baltimore, MD, the primary mission of the Anne E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

Maryland Resources

Maryland Partners

Maryland's Mental Health Adminstration (MHA) Core Service Agencies (CSA)s
The CSAs are the local mental health authorities responsible for planning, managing, and monitoring public mental health services at the local level. CSA exist under the authority of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and also are agents of the county government, which approve their organizational structure.

Maryland Choices
Maryland Choices, a subsidiary of Choices, Inc., was created to administer systems of care in multiple Maryland communities. They currently have offices in both Baltimore City and Montgomery County and are providing Wraparound services.

Center for School Mental Health (CSMH)
CSMH is a sister center within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Their mission is to strengthen policies and programs in school mental health to improve learning and promote success for America's youth.

Maryland' s Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health
The Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health is a grassroots coalition of family and advocacy organizations dedicated to improving services for children with mental health needs and their families and building a network of information and support for families across Maryland.

Maryland School Mental Health Alliance
The Maryland School Mental Health Alliance is a collaboration of child-serving academic and state partners. The Alliance’s goal is to focus on a full continuum of mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, treatment and crisis intervention in schools. It is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills related to making appropriate referrals and will improve the links among school teams, families, youths, health care providers and the larger public mental health system.