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Collaboration among agencies serving children and youths with emotional and behavioral disorders, often referred to as “wraparound services,” is widely accepted as a requisite for effective help. The Kalamazoo (MI, US) Gazette has a report on a local project that provides wraparound services.

Thousands of children in Kalamazoo County have emotional problems. Many of them receive no treatment whatsoever, and others receive fragmented help through one agency alone, or conflicting advice from multiple agencies. So it was clear that community mental health services had much more to do.

Link to the article.