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What is the Family First Prevention Services Act Part I: Introduction
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What is the Family First Prevention Services Act Part I: Introduction

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) is a national policy that offers an opportunity to supply more supports and services to maintain children and youth in home-like settings with families. The overarching goal of Part 1 of the act is prevention. Part 1 seeks to prevent the need for foster care while supporting children, youth, and families in their homes.

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA): What it says about fidelity monitoring and evaluation
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The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA): What it says about fidelity monitoring and evaluation

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) is a landmark federally supported opportunity to provide more supports and services to maintain children and youth in home-like settings with their natural caregivers and families. Certain requirements of the Act necessitate program monitoring and evaluation of services provided. This blog describes how Opeeka’s Person-Centered Intelligence Solution (P-CIS /pieces/) supports agencies to meet these requirements.

Health Equity Disparities
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Health Equity: A Systemic Approach

How to begin a systemic approach to health equity? Find out how you can navigate the challenges and opportunities of improving access, expanding coverage, and building community.

How to track mental health outcomes for children
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How to track mental health outcomes for children

There is limited information about which type of therapy best for treating specific childhood mental disorders. Clinical outcome measures can help us observe the progress of a child with a mental disorder and improve the quality of treatments. The benefits of clinical outcome measures in routine evaluation is that they can capture a variety of different aspects of the child’s story and functioning. It is very useful in the evaluation of a child’s mental health status.

Mental Health Outcomes for Children
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What are the benefits of clinical outcome measures in routine evaluation?

There is limited information about which type of therapy best treats specific childhood mental disorders. Clinical outcome measures can help us observe the progress of a child with a mental disorder and improve the quality of treatments. The benefit of clinical outcome measures in routine evaluation is that they can capture various aspects of the child’s story and functioning. It is very useful in evaluating a child’s mental health status.

Health Equity: A Systemic Approach to Social Determinants and Trauma
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Health Equity: A Systemic Approach to Social Determinants and Trauma

The view of an individual within the context of their family, living within a community, internalizing life through cultural lenses and all this connected to a larger societal influence (bio-ethno-gender-socio-economic status). All of this provides, the most plural, ‘US’ with the information needed to effectively do our work while transformationally empowering those we serve.