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No Wrong Door
Helping children with serious emotional disturbances and their families requires an integrated, innovative approach to care and services. To that end, Nassau County, NY, is establishing the No Wrong Door Family Support System of Care (NWD-FSS) providing a single point of access to care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance and their families. The program, modeled after Nassau's unique program of health and human services delivery known as No Wrong Door, represents a shift from top down medical models to a more collaborative team strategy. No Wrong Door offers a family-driven, youth-guided empowerment approach. Three accessible Family Resource Centers will offer a convenient gateway to multiple services, developed in targeted, high-needs communities.
Community Science will play a continuous role as evaluator and partner for the six-year project. Community Science's LaKeesha Woods, Co-Project Director, says, "System of care in general, and No Wrong Door Family Support System of Care in particular, promote the holistic health of diverse children and families. As local evaluators, we are charged not only with measuring the initiative's desired outcomes, but providing information to help the program develop and improve, celebrate its successes, and add to the field of children's mental health."
In conjunction with Nassau University Medical Center and New York State Families Together, NWD-FSS will build on this integrated way of meeting a full range of human services needs of county residents. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, funds the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program, which is funding Nassau County's grant. Nassau County is one of 18 participating communities in this sixth phase of the initiative. Over 140 communities have been funded since 1993.
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