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TOPIC:Education
Series on Community Based Services for Children
& Adolescents Who Are Severely Emotionally
Disturbed- Volume III:Therapeutic
Foster Care by: Beth Stroul, M.E.D.

Talbot’s Student Planning Book

Secondary School Improvement Councils

Safe Schools Regional Workshop - Book 1 & 2

School Improvement Councils-Questions & Answers

Parents Guide to Special Ed. Regulations-Mass.
Dept. of Education (DOE)

Developing an Effective School Improvement Council

Chapter 766 Regulations - DOE

A Focus on Attention Deficits - DOE

Eligibility Guidelines for Special Education 1994

A Focus on Integration

Eligibility Guidelines for Special Education 1992

Directory of Facilities and Services for LD

Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment
System: A guide for Educators & Parents- DOE

Navigating the College Admissions Process around
a Child’s Special Needs

Transition Services for Students moving into
Adulthood/After High School

Massachusetts Education Reform Act
Questions & Answers on School Councils

Massachusetts Department of Education
Education Reform Implementation Plan- 1993

Student Access - A Resource Guide for Educators - Section 504

Student Record Regulations- DOE

When Parents and Educators Do not Agree-Using
Mediation to Resolve Conflict (SPED)

Serving Students with Special Health Care Needs
in the School Setting: Legal and Implementation Issues

Industry - Education Partnership Guidelines- DOE

School-Based Improvement Implications for
Superintendents Leadership

Exemplary Mental Health Programs: School
Psychologists as Mental Health Service

Providers School- Community Compacts for Family
Involvement in Education

ADHD- Understanding What It Is & What’s
Involved In Treatment- Davis S. Mishkin, Ph.D.

Services/Resources
Lesko’s Info-Power II- Matthew Lesko 1994

Parent Support Organizations in Children’s
Mental Health: Goals, Objectives and Outcomes
Simmons College

Disability Evaluation Under Social Security

Wrap Around Services - Guide for Parents

Behavioral Management Training Services in Mass

Mass Billions - Federal Support for Human Services

National Directory Child & Adolescents Family Services

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Regulations Manual

Putting the Pieces Together: Creating Community
Supports for Individuals & Families

Planning Services for Rural Children With Special
Health Care Needs- Georgetown Univ.

Mass DMH Video Library Resource Guide- January 2000

Family Ties of Mass. Resources for Families
of Children with Special Needs

Paying the Bill-Tips for Financing Health Care N.E. SERVE

Therapeutic Foster Care

Summer Options for Teenagers- Cindy Ware

Human Rights Handbook- DMH 11/93

At the SchoolHouse Door- Jane Knitza,
Zina Steinberg, Brahm Fleisch

BSCP New England Program Directory

Vermont Parents Home Companion

Little Max-Creating Maximum Benefits for Children, Poor,
Elderly & Disabled

Mental Health Services Program for Youth DMH

Towards a Culturally Competent System of
Care Vol. I & II 2 vol. I & 1 vol. II

Community Care for Homeless Families- A program
Design Manual

On their Own - Runaway & Homeless Youth Programs
Georgetown University

Creative Sources of Funding for Program for
Homeless Families- Georgetown

Innovation with Impact - Industry Education
Partnership- Office of Community Education

Developing a Community Team - Workbook for
Providing Services- Georgetown

Establishing a Medical Home for Children
served by Part H of Public Law 99-457

Growing up & Getting Medical Care: Youth with
Special Health Care Needs

ADHD Disorder: Diagnosid, Nature, Etiology & Treatment
William E. Pelham, Jr. PH.D.

Community Based Health Care for Children with Chronic Illness
& Disabling Conditions

The Family as Case Manager: Home Care Coordinator for
Medically Fragile Children

Collaborative Services to Pre-School Handicapped Children

Creating an Information Base for Program Collaboration
Georgetown University

Brokering Power at the State Level for Child Health Care
Georgetown University

Carnegie School - Business Partnership
Office of Comm. Ed. DOE

Preparing to Care for Children with Special Health
Care Needs -Georgetown University

All Systems Failure (Examining results of neglecting
children w/serious emotional disturbances)-
National Mental Health Association

Developing Mental Health Programs for Minority Youth
and their Families

Developing Culturally Competent Programs for Families
of Children w/ Special Needs

Using Medicaid to Increase Funding for Home and Community
Based Mental Health Services for Children and Youth

Child and Adolescent Service System Program
Volume I 7/84- National Institute of MH

Social Work - Journal of the National Association
of Social Workers (6 issues)

A HandBook for Parents of Children Committed
(and commitable)to DYS

A Family Guidebook for Children-Adolescents
with serious Emotional Disturbance or Mental Illness

Mental Health Legal Advisory Committee: Handbook on
Guardianship and Alternatives

Office of Child Care Services - Standards for
Licensure or Approval of Residential Programs
Serving Children and Teen Parents

Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership
(The Partnership) Provider Policies and Procedures Manual

Putting Health Care Reform Into Practice - A guide for
MA Hospitals & Health Centers

Statutes and Sentencing Guidelines Unique to
Juvenile Offenders

Roots and Wings - A manual about Self-Advocacy
A monograph for parents of children w/disabilities

Beyond the Walls - Improving Conditions of
Confinement for Youth in Custody

Health Care Reform Tracking Project- 1997

The Whole Community Catalogue: Welcoming People
with Disabilities into Community Life

DSM IV Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (to remain in the office)

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