Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs

Presents strategies, best practices, and lessons learned from ten states' efforts to advance the medical home model of comprehensive and coordinated care in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs in order to improve quality and contain costs

A Prescription for Crime Prevention: Improving Youth Access to Effective Mental Health Approaches

Examines youth mental health issues in California, focusing on at-risk youth and those already involved in the juvenile justice system. Offers eleven youth mental health programs and provides policy recommendations

Representing the family: how does the state 'think family'?

Over the last decade the family and family-centred policies and practices have received increasing attention within the public service agenda, culminating in the emphatic instruction to ‘think family’ individually, collectively and institutionally. This has occurred at a time when the sociology of the family has increasingly emphasised the difficulties of thinking family in a coherent way. In this article we explore this agenda through an examination of the representational tools with which public service professionals and managers have been recently equipped. We conclude by questioning the adequacy of these tools for effectively representing family relations

Listen up: Reflections on the CDI and HSE Speech and Language Services in Tallaght West

The primary aim of this study was to build on the previous evaluation of the Childhood Development's Initiatives (CDI) speech and language approach and carry out a comparative evaluation of speech and language therapy services for young children across the CDI and Health Services Executive (HSE) programmes. The main research questions are organised according to (i) implementation of the programme; (ii) uptake and accessibility; (iii) and outcomes

Neglect matters: a multi-agency guide for professionals working together on behalf of teenagers

Neglect matters: a multi-agency guide for professionals working together on behalf of teenager