Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis, An Issue of ChildAnd Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North

In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, Rupinder K. Legha, and Michelle P. Durham bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis. Top experts in the field discuss strategies to empower pediatric communities and their families in times of crisis, by optimizing community partnership with preventative and crisis response interventions for de-escalation and stabilization, expanding financial supports for community and home based mental health services; promoting community oriented emergency psychiatry and mobile crisis service delivery; and promoting local, state, and federal policy intervention for systems of care that focus on the collective health and well-being in environments of children and their families.