Shared Outcomes for Mental Health and Child Welfare Partnership. Draft.

June 1, 2007 The Kansas Mental Health Child Welfare Steering Committee has developed a Statewide Partnership Plan for how the child welfare and mental health systems will coordinate services to create a seamless array of services for children and their families served by both systems. In addition to the numerous practical details of daily practices, the Partnership Plan articulates the goal of establishing a common set of outcomes for children who concurrently receive services from the child welfare and mental health systems. It is anticipated that increased coordination between child welfare and children's mental health will result in better . . .