The Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health A Study of Service Innovations that Enhance Systems of Care: Expanding the Array of Services using Networks of Providers in Community-based Integrated Systems of Care

During the past two decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on the development of com-munity-based, integrated systems of care to serve children with serious emotional disturbances and their families. Systems of care are based on the understanding that children with serious emotional disturbances have a wide variety of strengths and needs; thus, their services should be individualized