In 2023, the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) was awarded a five-year $20 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau to create the first-ever National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services.
C.A.S.E. has partnered with a pool of national subject matter experts and other leading organizations to ensure the national center’s success —The Baker Center for Children and Families; FosterClub; the Family Run Executive Director Leadership Association; the National Adoption Association; the National Foster Parent Association; PolicyWorks; and the University Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center on Children, Families, and the Law (CCFL). CCFL was chosen to provide evaluation for the new National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services.
Building bridges between child welfare systems and state mental health systems is key to bringing about systemic change to improve the mental health outcomes for children in care and in adoptive and guardianship homes.
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