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In October 2010, DBHDS released its interim report which identified major deficiencies in the array and capacity of current services statewide. The report identified 39 distinct services within nine categories that comprise a comprehensive system of care, as well as the four types of base services (crisis response services, case management and intensive care coordination, psychiatric services, and in-home services) that are critical to have available to children statewide.
In January 2011, DBHDS released the first set of data from a survey of the forty CSBs about the number and types of children’s mental health services provided by CSBs.
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Virginia Commonwealth University's Mass Communication students pair with local media outlets and interest groups to present to the community the latest coverage of the issues you care about. Sign up for email notifications for the absolute latest from the General Assembly or visit their blog for a running list of stories.
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Atlantic Reports presents a report on why foundation should support advocacy efforts. This report presents case studies, frequently asked question, guidelines for support and more
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Telling Your Story provides strategic steps to create testimonies and case studies to help in advocacy efforts.
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Brookings Institute explains political action committees, their purpose, goals, strategy and more.
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Wellstone Action! webpage provide 6 steps on being a successful citizen lobbyist as well as resources on voter registration, voter education, action-planning and much more.
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Wellstone Action! describes how to create an action plan for advocacy and organizing.
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NP Action has a wealth of resources regarding using the media to advocate for your cause. This page includes tips on writing letters to the editor, creative campaigns, general lobbying information and more.
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The new initiative known as the Social Innovation Fund, a signature effort by the Obama administration to inject federal monies into growing, imaginative, and effective nonprofit social service organizations, is only the most recent in a long series of bipartisan efforts to provide a plausible answer to a bedeviling question in the American nonprofit sector: How can organizations that are doing an especially good job, but not helping as many people as they would like to help, find the funds to do even more? Or, to use business school jargon, how can these organizations “go to scale?”
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This article from the social media and communications researchers at Zoetica offers an analysis on the current impacts and future outlook of corporate giving.