Minnesota team presents at Georgetown conference

Posted August 21st, 2008

A strong contingent from Minnesota presented the Foundations for Success model at the recent national Systems of Care conference at Georgetown University.

The presentation included a discussion of our group’s history, goals, and structure. We also talked about how we have worked to coordinate our efforts with other statewide early childhood initiatives, make our innovations sustainable, track outcomes through research, and impact systems through projects like standardizing culture-specific screening tools.

About 60 professionals and parents attended our session. More than a third of the attendees asked for copies of our presentation, so here are the slides and handouts:

July 2008, Georgetown University Systems of Care Conference (1.182 kb, ppt)
The slides from the Foundations for Success institute for the Georgetown University Systems of Care Conference in July, 2008

Foundations for Success System of Care and Funding Streams (128 kb, 08 Ramsey County Early Childhood Mental Health Services Continuum (funding)c)
A visual depiction of the Foundations for Success System of Care and the various Funding Streams that support it.

The representatives leading our presentation were Catherine Wright (coordinator of Foundations for Success), Polly Talen (program director of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation), Cheryl Holm-Hansen (research scientist at Wilder and evaluation chair of Foundations for Success), and Dr. Glenace Edwall (director of children’s mental health at Minnesota Department of Human Services).