Highlights from the Field
Communities from the TA Partnership's regions are featured in this month's Highlights from the Field. The articles provide information about innovative and promising activities from the system of care communities around the country in the hopes that communities can learn from their peers. Feature articles:
- One Community Partnership's Six Years of Success–A Legacy of Service to Continue
- Our Voices, Our Choices and FACT-MO: A Beautiful Friendship
- Montana Works Toward Statewide Wraparound
- Wraparound Oregon, Multnomah County's "I Fit In" Campaign
News You Can Use
- America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008
- Tool Kit for Creating Your Own Truancy Reduction Program
- Suicide Risks Studied in Drugs for Physical Ills
- Newsletter Highlights Substance Abuse Strategies for Youthful Offender Reentry
- Community Health Assessment Toolkit
- Extra Calories and Childhood Obesity
- National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIII: Teens and Parents
- National Alliance on Mental Illness to Grade States’ Mental Health Services
Research Update
- Child Welfare Outcomes 2002–2005: Report to Congress
- Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades
- Family Therapy Helps Relieve Depression Symptoms in Bipolar Teens
- Report on Declining Number of Youth in Custody
- Transcending Violence: Emerging Models for Trauma Healing in Refugee Communities
- Study Reveals that School Pressure is the Number One Reason Teens Use Drugs
- Teens with Treatment-resistant Depression More Likely to Get Better with Switch to Combination Therapy
Funding Opportunities
- Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Award
Application Deadline: November 3, 2008 - National Institute of Justice’s Graduate Research Fellowship 2009
Application Deadline: November 21, 2008 - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Time-Sensitive Mental Health and Substance Abuse Research Grants
- Treatment of Anemia of Inflammation and of Chronic Diseases
- Mix it Up Grants
- After School Advantage Program
Technical Assistance Partnership News
- National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health (FFCMH) 20th Annual Conference
November 20–23, 2008 | Atlanta, Georgia - TA Partnership's Communities of Practice
System of Care Resources
Upcoming Events & Conferences
- 2008 Annual ATTACh Conference
September 24–27, 2008 | Concord-Charlotte, North Carolina - 14th National Symposium on Juvenile Services
October 5–8, 2008 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 2008 CHADD Annual Conference
November 12–15, 2008 | Anaheim, California - 23rd Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment
January 26–30, 2009 | San Diego, California - Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Cultivating Healthy Communities Conference
Feb 23–25, 2009 | National Harbor, Maryland - 22nd Annual Systems of Care Research Conference
March1–4, 2009 | Tampa, Florida - 43rd National Immunization Conference
March 30–April 2, 2009 | Dallas, Texas - The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare 39th National Council Conference
April 5–8, 2009 | San Antonio, Texas - 27th Annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
April 19–22, 2009 | Reno, Nevada