Main description:

Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs. Building on the successful 2014 publication Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families, this follow-up volume provides a contemporary framework to address the needs of young people and their families, alongside practical strategies that can be implemented at the program, community, system, and policy levels.

Using the Building Bridges Initiative as a foundation, the book serves as a "how-to manual" for making bold changes to residential interventions. The reader will learn from a range of inspired leaders who, rather than riding the wave of change, jumped in and created the wave by truly listening to and partnering with their youth, families, advocates, and staff. Chapters provide real-time practice examples and specific strategies that are transformational and consider critical areas, such as family and youth voice, choice and roles, partnerships, permanency and equity, diversity, and inclusion. These methods benefit youth with behavioral and/or emotional challenges and their families and will improve an organization's long-term outcomes and fiscal bottom line.

This book is for oversight agencies, managed care companies, providers of service, advocates, and youth/family leaders looking for an exemplar guide to the new frontier of residential intervention. In this era of accountability and measurement, it will become a trusted companion in leading residential interventions to improved practices and outcomes.

Contents:

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Transforming Residential Interventions: A Practice Framework
ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JANICE LEBEL, BETH CALDWELL, JOE ANNE HUST, JULIE COLLINS, AND GARY M. BLAU

Putting Families First: Strategies to Transform and Advance Family Engagement and Partnership
ANNE KUPPINGER, JOE ANNE HUST, PAT HUNT, PAT MOSBY, SHERRI HAMMACK, AND BETH CALDWELL

Youth Engagement and Empowerment Strategies
JAMMIE GARDNER, LACY KENDRICK BURK, AND RAQUEL MONTES

Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Residential Interventions
TANVI AJMERA, JULIE COLLINS, LINDA HENDERSON-SMITH, CHANDLER COGGINS, AND GARY M. BLAU

Residential Transformation: Successful Strategies and Examples
JANICE LEBEL, MARTHA J. HOLDEN, DEBORAH A. FAUNTLEROY, LETICIA GALYEAN, WILLIAM R. MARTIN, AND CARLENE CASCIANO-MCCANN

Residential Intervention Strategies to Accelerate Permanency
CHRISTOPHER BEHAN, JAMES LISTER, DIANNA WALTERS-HARTLEY, LAUREN FREY, EVETTE JACKSON, AND MARLONY CALDERON

Residential Oversight Agencies: Successful Strategies and Examples for Residential Transformation
ELIZABETH MANLEY, JANICE LEBEL, AND KAMILAH JACKSON

Establishing Partnerships to Improve Aftercare and Long-Term Outcomes for Youth and Families Served Through Residential Interventions
JOE FORD, DEBRA MANNERS, WENDY WANG, ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JURON MCMILLAN, AND BETH CALDWELL

Evidence-Informed Residential Programs and Practices for Youth and Families
SIGRID JAMES WITH LACY KENDRICK BURK

Understanding and Applying a Neurodevelopmental Approach in Residential Interventions
ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, TINA CHAMPAGNE, EMILY Y. WANG, AND KATIE RUSHLO

Measuring the Impact of Residential Interventions: A New Frontier
DANA WEINER, RON THOMPSON, AND MARVIN CAIN ALEXANDER

Developing Fiscal and Financing Strategies for Residential Interventions

JULIE COLLINS AND SHERRY PETERS

13. Residential Transformation: Taking Change to the Next Level

GARY M. BLAU, ROBERT E. LIEBERMAN, JOE ANNE HUST, JANICE LEBEL, AND BETH CALDWELL

Index