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Systems of care for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families have generally lacked intensive community-based programs. We describe three types of newly established community-based programs in New York State and present a general evaluation plan for determining which programs work for various children and their families. The three community-based programs are Intensive Case Management, Family-Based Treatment, and Family-Centered Intensive Case Management. Process and outcome evaluations are being conducted for each of these programs. These evaluations make use of common intake and termination instruments, based on a minimum data set, standardized assessment instruments, and a common logic model, thus facilitating the comparison of findings across evaluations.
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Armstrong, M.I., Evans, M.E. Three intensive community-based programs for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance and their families. J Child Fam Stud 1, 61–74 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01321342
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