Initiative: Trauma-Informed Systems of Care (THRIVE)

Develop a comprehensive system of care in collaboration with youth, families and communities that is responsive and informed about the impacts of trauma on overall child well-being, in order to better address the unique needs of children and youth with serious emotional challenges and their families.

• Youth feeling supported in their family
• Home and community based services for youth with severe behavioral health problems
• Children returned to Maine from out-of-state residential and hospital placements
• Youth feeling important
• Youth feeling safe to/from school   Updated 2007
• Youth with positive adults in their lives
• Children and youth in state care or custody   Updated 2007
• Youth arrests   Updated 2007