Clinicians who serve children and adolescents with complex mental health needs, generally find themselves interfacing with multiple child-serving systems and community programs. AACAP has developed the following resources to provide effective "wrap-around" care.

General Systems of Care Resources

• Guide for Community Child Serving Agencies on Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adolescents (©2012)
• Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) Principles 
  
• Best Principles for Early Childhood Systems of Care (©2002) 
  
• The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care

Training for Residents

• Systems-Based Practice Toolkit (©2009)
  
• Guidelines for Training Towards Community-Based Systems of Care for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (©1996)* 

Training for Mental Health Clinicians

• Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument (CASII)
  
• Early Childhood Service Intensity Instrument (ECSII)

Resources for Specific Systems

• AACAP Monograph: Recommendations for Juvenile Justice Reform (©2005)*  
  
• Adjudication of Youths as Adults in the Criminal Justice System Position Statement* 
  
• AACAP Position Statement on Oversight of Psychotropic Medication Use for Children in State Custody: A Best Principles Guideline (©2005)*