The TA Network is comprised of national experts in youth and family services working to expand and sustain community-based Systems of Care across the U.S. We provide expert consultation and technical assistance to state and local governments, tribes, territories, communities, and organizations working to develop effective youth- and family-serving systems and to build a well-prepared workforce for the benefit of youth and their families.
Our Work
Systems Design & Management • Evidence-Based Practice • Service Array Design • Governance & Implementation Structures • Family & Youth Engagement • Continuous Quality Improvement • Workforce Development • Research & Evaluation • Strategic Planning & Sustainability • Family & Youth Peer Support • Data Analysis • Policy Development & Analysis • Leadership Development • Medicaid & Medicaid Waivers • Fiscal Analysis Mapping • Contract Development
Our Expertise
Adolescent Risk Behaviors • Care Coordination Structures • Child Sex & Labor Trafficking • Child Welfare • Clinical High Risk & Psychosis • Clinical Practices • Cultural & Linguistic Competency • Education • Family First Prevention Services Act • Implementation Science • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities • Juvenile Justice • LGBTQ+ • Mental Health, Substance Use & Co-Occurring Disorders • Mobile Response & Stabilization • Parent, Infant & Early Childhood • Physical Health • Public Financing • Public Health • Residential Best Practices • Rural Mental Health • Social Marketing • Tribal Systems of Care • Youth & Family Leadership • Young Adult Services & Supports • Youth Homelessness
Our Approach:
- Offers innovative strategies grounded in implementation science & best practices
- Ties to cross-cutting systems issues & reforms underway in states, tribes, territories, counties & cities
- Connects to emerging & evolving federally-funded initiatives
- Focuses on operational design & management
- Leverages family & youth leadership & cultural & linguistic competence
- Embeds System of Care practices into mainstream youth- and family-serving systems to sustain, expand & improve programmatic outcomes