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National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention

Policy and Legislation

W-4 Sustaining Project LAUNCH Services and Supports: Using Medicaid and Health Care Reform

Meeting: 
Project LAUNCH Training Institute
Date: 
May 15, 2012 - 1:15pm - 3:15pm

Participants will be able to strengthen their own sustainability plans by identifying current funding, strategies to overcome barriers, effective communication, and opportunities for the&nb

A Tool Using Data to Inform a State Early Childhood Agenda

CLASP has developed a new tool to help state policy makers better understand the context and conditions of young children, birth to age six, in their state.

Challenges in the Implementation of Evidence-based Mental Health Practices for Birth-to-Five Year Olds and Their Families

This issue brief, co-authored by Patsy Hampton from CA Project LAUNCH, is the product of a day-long Think Tank with national leaders in evidence-based practice (EBP), program administrators, EBP de

Using Your Data to Educate Policy Makers

Meeting: 
SS/HS Project Directors' Consortia July 2011
Date: 
July 13, 2011 - 9:30am - 10:45am

Trauma Faced by Children of Military Families: What Every Policymaker Should Know

Publisher: 
The National Center for Children in Poverty

This brief outlines the growing research documenting the negative impact on children, youth, and families of active U.S. military personnel.

Early Childhood Data Systems: Linking school readiness, early childhood systems building and third grade reading

Date/Time (ET): 
May 17, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm

This webinar is for state leaders interested in developing early childhood data systems and exploring the relationship between birth to five policy agendas and early elementary reform efforts.

Leadership Academy to Address Disparities in Mental Health Care

Date/Time: 
August 22, 2011
Location: 
Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Leadership Academy is an intensive course of study comprised of 3 months of preparatory activities and a four-day residential learning experience.

State-level Indicators for Social-emotional Development

This report addresses the process of creating a system of indicators for social-emotional wellness, examines recent state experiences in this area, and describes a framework for moving forward in t