The Child, Adolescent and Family Branch has enlisted the help of Lenore Behar and Marty Hydaker, two long-standing alumnus of systems of care efforts to use concept mapping to obtain feedback about community readiness from key staff and community partners of selected Phase 3, 4, and 5 sites and graduated sites, and a selected panel of experts in the field.The concept of community readiness is central to the community’s capacity to successfully create systems of care for children and adolescents with emotional disturbances and for their families.

The bottom line is we need to know what needs to be in place before submitting an application for funds. And who knows better than you?

Hurry! The opportunity to participate closes at midnight on May 31, 2008.

The Peer Directory is now interactive! Still in beta - a few wrinkles with the search features, etc. We want you to use it and give us feedback on how we can improve! Also, our database got a bit scrambled during our server move last week. You may see some extra characters in the descriptions of your old grant site. Just a bit of ASCII text that we are slowly cleaning up. Hang in there with us!