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Wrap Around Servies have become a staple of child welfare and children’s mental health services and its dissemination has had strong support in Maryland. A new monograph

Phases and activities of the wraparound process. Portland, OR: National Wraparound Initiative, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health, Portland State University (http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/PDF/PhaseActivWAProcess.pdf) has recently been developed with support from the State of MAryland, SAMHSA, and the National Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. The purpose of this document is increase the fidelity with which wrap around is delivered so that the activiies that are part of the practice model are better articulated and more clearly phased. This is an important contribution with broad input. Wrap Around is considered a promising practice with high child welfare relevance by the California Evidence Based Practice Clearinghouse on Child Welfare and was included in one of the early volumes on evidence based children’s mental health services edited by Barbara Burns and Kimberly Hoagwood, Burns, B. J., & Hoagwood, K. (2002). Community treatment for youth: Evidence-based interventions for severe emotional and behavior disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

GAINS Center Juvenile Cross Training Curriculum

The juvenile cross-training curriculum is designed to address major gaps in service provision for youth with treatment needs involved with the juvenile justice system. It focuses on increasing collaboration among professionals in the fields of mental health, substance abuse, and juvenile justice when working with youth with co-occurring disorders in the juvenile justice system. This online version of the juvenile cross-training curriculum supplies participating professionals with information to better understand the needs of juveniles with co-occurring disorders and to provide more effective treatment and management. While the format retains most of the didactic elements of the original cross-training, participants may engage in modular exercises as they progress through each component. The main topic areas include:

• An overview of the juvenile justice and treatment systems
• Screening and assessment tools
• Effective treatment approaches
• Strategies for improving communication among systems