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What are ACEs?
RWJF and a growing network of leaders is pioneering how we diminish the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Learn about what ACEs are, their prevalence and their impact.
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Grantee News
2013 Children's Symposium
RWJF grantee, Head Start Trauma Smart, is hosting the 2013 Children's Symposium. ad Start Trauma Smart (HSTS) is an early childhood development initiative that addresses the trauma associated with violence, poverty, and illness.
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Mental Health Impact Assessment
RWJF, in collaboration with the Pew Charitable Trusts, is investing in expanding the use of Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) to inform policy decisions across sectors that can influence health. This pilot is aimed at adapting the conventional HIA methodology to assess mental health effects.
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Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care
Research conducted by the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools reports on strategies to strengthen and sustain children’s mental health services and prevent the onset of problem behaviors.
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Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
Prescription for Health tested the use of tools and evidence-based models in primary care to counsel patients to change four leading behaviors associated with premature death: smoking, risky drinking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
Cross-Systems Financing Project Learning Community Creates Care Integration in Five Sites
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Technical Assistance Collaborative established and guided a "learning community" in which participants developed strategies to integrate funding for and improve access to mental health and substance abuse services in their states and counties.
Assessing How a New Mexico Interagency Purchasing Collaborative Organizes and Finances Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
April 16, 2010 | Program Result Report
In 2004, the State of New Mexico created the New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative to transform the way the state organized and financed substance abuse and mental health services.
Massachusetts Integrates Services and Improves Mental Health Care for Youth
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Boston, coordinated a pilot project to integrate medical, mental health, social support and non-traditional services for children and adolescents who had serious emotional disturbances within a traditionally organized system of care.
New Nonprofit Entity Manages Mental Health Services for Youth in New York
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
Starting in January 1996, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Albany, N.Y. developed a method — through the education, social services, juvenile justice, and mental health systems — to purchase and manage individualized services for seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents to divert them from unnecessary placements and hospitalizations.
Mental Health Services Program for Youth Replication
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The Mental Health Services Program for Youth Replication was a national program set up by RWJF to follow-up on the results of the Mental Health Services Program for Youth that ran from 1988 to 1998.
Michigan Initiative Helps Children with Emotional Disturbances
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1994 to 1997, under the Michigan Interagency Family Preservation Initiative, the State of Michigan Department of Mental Health, Lansing, Mich., piloted innovative models for serving children and families, particularly children with serious emotional disturbances.
Minnesota's Mental Health Collaborative Maximizes Federal Entitlement Reimbursement
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Staff at the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services implemented state policy and administrative support systems for facilitating the development of Minnesota Children's Health Collaboratives-Integrated Fund Initiative (MHIF).
The Mental Health Services Program for Youth
January 1, 1999 | Book
The chapter takes the reader through the program's attempts to address the challenges related to creating, financing and coordinating community services for children with mental health problems.
Qualitative Evaluation of a Mobile Phone and Web-Based Collaborative Care Intervention for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
For patients with chronic illness such as type 2 diabetes, the day-to-day management of their health can be a challenge.