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Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for
Children and Their Families
Missouri
Show-Me Kids
The Show-Me Kids project focuses on the development of an integrated
community-based system of care for children with serious emotional disturbances
(SED) and their families in the Southwest region of the state. While Missouri
has taken steps to develop an integrated system of care, most activities have
occurred in urban areas of the state. Because Missouri is predominately rural,
there is a significant need for system-of-care development across a
multi-county rural area. The Show-Me Kids project is striving to achieve four
objectives: improve access and service integration for youth with SED,
especially those with co-occurring diagnoses; expand access to and capacity of
culturally relevant mental health services in rural areas, with particular
attention to the burgeoning Hispanic/Latino population; identify and intervene
earlier with young children with mental health problems who are at risk for SED
within and across systems; evaluate the effectiveness of the system of care and
its components. The system of care will provide a broad array of culturally
relevant mental health and related services and supports through an integrated
and coordinated service delivery plan with family and youth involvement, as
well as collaboration at all levels of the system.
Elizabeth Sweet
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1925
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: elizabeth.sweet@samhsa.hhs.gov
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Linda Roebuck
Principal Investigator
Missouri Department of Mental Health
1706 East Elm Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Phone: 573-751-4970
Fax: 573-526-7926
E-mail: linda.roebuck@mail.dmh.mo.us
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Connie Cahalan
Project Director
Missouri Department of Mental Health
1706 East Elm Street
Jefferson, MO 65101
Phone: 573-751-4970
Fax: 573-526-8197
E-mail: connie.cahalan@dmh.mo.gov
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Transitions: St. Louis Systems of Care , A System of Care for Children with a
Serious Emotional Disturbance
The overall goal of the Transitions project is to ensure that children and youth
with severe emotional disturbance (SED), and who are served within the child
welfare system receive needed mental health support through critical
developmental transitions in their childhood, enabling them to grow into
successfully functioning adults.
As determined by the St. Louis System of Care Board, the focus of this project
is to help children and youth successfully navigate the most traumatic
transitions they experience within the child welfare system: 1) initially being
removed from their homes due to abuse/neglect; 2) experiencing out-of-home
placement during the child welfare permanency planning process – oftentimes
separated from siblings; and 3) as older adolescents leaving the protection of
state custody and venturing alone into the adult world.
Elizabeth Sweet
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1925
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: elizabeth.sweet@samhsa.hhs.gov
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Linda Roebuck
Principal Investigator
Deputy Director
Missouri Department of Mental Health
1706 E. Elm Street
P.O. Box 687
Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: 573-751-4970
Fax: 573:526-7926
E-mail: linda.roebuck@dmh.mo.gov
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