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TARGETED INSTITUTE #3 9:30 AM SUNDAY • SUN B
Strategies for Expanding the System of Care Approach
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. Current efforts to expand the system of care approach throughout states, tribes, and territories
2. To describe a strategic framework for system of care expansion including five core strategies
3. To identify the expansion strategies that have proven most successful
4. How to apply the strategic framework to create large-scale system change
5. How to utilize a new rating tool to assess the level of system of care implementation to track progress toward system
of care expansion
This Targeted Institute will focus on effective strategies for expanding the system of care approach based on research and
the experience of states that have made significant progress. A strategic framework for large-scale system change will
provide the context for the session that includes five core strategy areas for system of care expansion and sub-strategies
within each area: 1) implementing policy and regulatory changes, 2) expanding the array of services and supports, 3)
creating or improving financing, 4) providing training and technical assistance, and 5) generating high-level support for
expansion for expansion of the system of care approach. Specific and action-oriented sub-strategies in each of these
areas will be outlined and real-world examples will be provided from states that have implemented these strategies.
The approaches to be presented are based on a recent study on effective strategies for expanding the system of care
approach that explored the strategies used in nine states that have made significant progress. Specific examples of how
these strategies have contributed to New Jersey’s success in implementing systems of care statewide will be interspersed
throughout. This will provide real world, practical lessons demonstrating how the framework can be applied and adapted
to the unique needs, fiscal and political environments, and priority populations in each state, tribe, or territory.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Brief history of the system of care concept and the basis for widespread expansion
• Current efforts for system of care expansion
• The strategic framework that provides a conceptual and practical basis for planning and implementing expansion efforts
• Review of the study of effective expansion strategies and findings that identify the most effective strategies to inform
the investment of time and financial resources for system of care expansion
• The application of the expansion strategies in multiple states with detail on their use in New Jersey and identifying
successes and challenges
• New rating tool designed to assess progress toward implementation of the system of care approach at the community
or regional level and how it can be used to support expansion efforts
The session will include an opportunity for small groups of participants to identify a goal for system of care expansion
and complete a worksheet to identify strategies for achieving the goal, as well as to complete part of the rating tool to
prepare for using it in their home communities and states.
The faculty team will include the perspectives of researchers who conducted the study of effective strategies, technical
assistance providers, and a state children’s director with first-hand experience in system of care expansion.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Bob Friedman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Child and Family Studies,
Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Jeffrey Guenzel, M.A., L.P.C., Division Director, New Jersey Department of Children and Families, New Jersey
Division of Child Behavioral Health, Trenton, NJ
Beth Stroul, M.Ed., President, Management & Training Innovations, McLean, VA
Training Institutes 2012
TARGETED INSTITUTES
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