CSA Systems of Care

Position descriptions adopted by the State and Local Advisory Team (SLAT) for family appointment to the CPMT and to the FAPT.

Draft CPMT job description

Draft FAPT job description

The Child Welfare Information Gateway is a service of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It provides access to resources covering a wide range of topics on child welfare including prevention, child abuse, neglect, adoption, and more.

http://www.childwelfare.gov/

http://www.nmha.org/

Medical Home Plus, located in Richmond, Virginia, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for families with children who have special health care needs. Services offered to families include a family resource center, referral services, and health prevention services.

http://medhomeplus.org/index.html

The Virginia Integrated Network of Family Organizations (VA INFO) consists of the following agencies: Medical Home Plus, Family Voices of Virginia, Parent to Parent of Virginia, the Family Involvement Project at the Arc of Virginia, the Virginia Federation of Families and the Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center. The VA INFO Center provides youth and parents of children with special needs, including those with behavioral and mental health needs information and training, referrals, peer support and an annual family support conference.

http://www.medicalhomeplus.org/VAINFO.html

The Arc of Virginia is affiliated with The Arc of the United States and is the state chapter in Virginia. Members speak out on issues that affect people with mental retardation or related developmental disabilities and their families.  The most important function of Arc is to assist people with disabilities, family members, friends, and others to become advocates themselves. 

http://www.arcofva.org/

Family Voices is a national grassroots organization that provides information and education about ways to ensure and improve family-centered health care for children and youth with disabilities and chronic conditions.

FACES of Virginia Families is a non-profit membership-driven Association offering information, support and resources for foster, adoptive and kinship families. The Virginia Department of Social Services provided the financial support to establish the Association, in an effort to support foster, adoptive, and kinship parents throughout the Commonwealth.

http://facesofvirginia.org/

This website is developed by families for families. It is a forum for families to place their learned information about helpful resources for the benefit of others with similar needs.

Parent to Parent of New York State is a statewide not for profit organization with a mission to support and connect families of individuals with special needs. 

This section of the website offers very practical information, tips, and helpful tools.   Examples of tools include behavior modification charts for both school and home use.

The two following publications were developed through the work of AMP (Achieve My Plan), a five year project to develop and test ways to increase the meaningful participation of youth in collaborative team planning meetings. They were produced by the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health at Portland State University and were developed with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, United States Department of Education, and the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

 http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDF/pbAMPYouthParticipation.pdf

http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDF/pbAMP-YouthParticipationResearchSummary.pdf