Children’s Mental Health
DHS and its partners are improving mental health services to children by moving to involve parents more in decisions, deliver more children’s mental health services in the community, improve inter-agency cooperation and acknowledge the child’s language and cultural heritage. Some 37,400 children and adolescents received services in 2006 for mental health or substance-abuse disorders or both.
General Information
Minutes
(Contact person: Bill Bouska, OMHAS, (503) 945-9717, email: bill.bouska@state.or.us)
Children's System Advisory Committee (CSAC) (subcommittee of PAMAC)
Meeting schedule for 2007 (PDF)
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CSCI Policies
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Families and Youth
FAQs
Integrated Service Array (ISA)
Memoranda of Understanding/Agreement
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Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs)
Partnerships
Resources
The American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have prepared these Guides to help patients, families, and physicians make informed decisions about obtaining and administering the most appropriate care for a child with depression.
Outcomes/Evaluation
Presentations
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Reports
The Office of Addictions and Mental Health (AMH) responded to a budget note to increase mental health services to children who are “coordinated, comprehensive, culturally competent, delivered in natural environments and that they often need multiple interventions to be successful." In response to this directive, OMHAS met with community partners to explore improvements for a culturally competent mental health system. Our partners advised us to obtain an independent assessment. Following an open solicitation, AMH contracted with Hank Balderrama to provide an assessment of Oregon’s children’s mental health service delivery capacity to serve various ethnic minority groups in a culturally competent manner, and to make recommendations of objectives and strategies to increase capacity and competence.
Hank Balderrama’s report, “Oregon State Children’s Mental Health Initiative Initial Review of Cultural Competence” is provided in three versions:
1) The full report including the executive summary and all attachments (PDF)
2) The executive summary (PDF)
3) The report narrative without the tables and attachments (PDF)
Cultural Competency Report to Stakeholders (PDF)
Reports to the State Emergency Board
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Additional reports
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System of Care
Links
Updates
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