Connecting the Dots: Stages of Implementation, Wraparound Fidelity and Youth Outcomes

Evaluating fidelity to the wraparound service model for youth: application of item response theory to the Wraparound Fidelity Index.

The wraparound process is a mechanism for multisystem planning and care coordination for youth with serious emotional and behavioral problems. Fidelity monitoring is critical to effective implementation of evidence-based practices in children's mental health, as it helps ensure that complex interventions like wraparound are implemented as intended. The 40-item Wraparound Fidelity Index, Version...

Quality and Fidelity in Wraparound

Connecting the Dots

Executive summary ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary goal of this thesis is to consider how recommendations and standards for Danish IT architecture, in general, assure successful systems integration, leading to inter-operability in the Danish public sector. The secondary goal is to assess the specific case of integrating ECM (ESDH) systems from the FESD project with existing systems from KMD in ...

Connecting the Dots

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Computerization: Connecting the Dots

Inequality has social costs: it may engender political divisions, aggravate crime, and lead low-income families into poverty from which they or their children may not emerge. Dramatic shifts in relative well-being therefore demand attention. In the late. 1980s, economists discovered that the earnings of highand low-wage workers were rapidly diverging (Levy and Murnane 1992). Chart 1 plots earni...