Coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health service providers, children's service use, and outcomes

Mental health need and service use among Latino children of immigrants in the child welfare system

Web Service Providers\' Game on Price and Service Level

  Response time is one of the critical web service quality dimensions. It refers to how long it takes that a web service responds to request of a user. In order to manage the response time, pricing schemes can work as an efficient access control mechanism. In this paper, we study competition between two providers offering functionally same web services where there is a monopoly service provider...

Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare.

BACKGROUND Children involved with child welfare systems are at high risk for emotional and behavioral problems. Many children with identified mental health problems do not receive care, especially ethnic/minority children. OBJECTIVE To examine how patterns of specialty mental health service use among children involved with child welfare vary as a function of the degree of coordination between...

Mental health services use by children investigated by child welfare agencies.

OBJECTIVE To examine the rates and predictors of mental health services use for a nationally representative cohort of youths who had been investigated for alleged maltreatment. METHODS Data came from caregiver and caseworker baseline and 18-month interviews in the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being. These interviews took place from March 2008 to September 2008 and Septe...

School mental health resources and adolescent mental health service use.

OBJECTIVE Although schools are identified as critical for detecting youth mental disorders, little is known about whether the number of mental health providers and types of resources that they offer influence student mental health service use. Such information could inform the development and allocation of appropriate school-based resources to increase service use. This article examines associa...