• PCPA Forms FBMHS Work Group (04/03/08)
• Nominations for Marilyn Mennis Memorial Award (04/03/08)
• Orientation to High Fidelity Wraparound (03/24/08)
• OCYF to Require Cost Reports for Residential Per Diem and Foster Care Support (03/11/08)
• OMHSAS Moving to Require Functional Behavioral Assessments (03/10/08)
• Fagan Appointed Director of Youth and Family Training Institute (03/03/08)
• Partial Hospital Guidance to School Districts (01/24/08)
• Provider Survey: Impact Assessment of Alternatives to Coercive Techniques (01/22/08)
• DPW Releases BHRS-Partial Hospital Bulletin (01/07/08)
• Autism Support Grants (01/02/08)
• OCYF Issues Adam Walsh Act Guidance (01/02/08)

2007

• UPMC Seeks Youth and Family Institute Director (12/05/07)
• Provider Impact Assessment of Alternatives to Coercive Techniques (11/20/07)
• OMHSAS White Paper on Alternatives to Residential Treatment (10/01/07)
• Autism Training Opportunity (09/14/07)
• FASD Awareness Week Press Release (08/15/07)
• HCSIS Child Incident Reporting Goes Live (08/02/07)
• FBI Clearance in Schools Update (07/17/07)
• Do You Serve Children Ages 0 - 5? (07/07/07)
• Training for Juvenile Firesetter Services Announced (07/05/07)
• Incident Management Orientation Materials Available (06/04/07)
• Member Survey of Adolescent Forensic Services Continues (05/03/07)
• PCPA Comments on Draft PRTF Regulations (05/03/07)
• Gold to Lead Office of Children, Youth and Families (04/11/07)
• FBI Clearances Required for Staff in Schools (04/05/07)
• Member Survey of Adolescent Forensic Services (03/29/07)
• RTF Proposed Regulations Available for Review (03/22/07)
• Planning for Summer Therapeutic Activity Programs (03/06/07)
• OMHSAS to Develop Child Respite Services (03/01/07)
• CMHS Creates National Center for Trauma Informed Care (02/09/07)
• CASSP Conference Begins April 24 (02/06/07)
• DPW Survey of Restraint Data Collection (02/02/07)
• OMHSAS Releases Results of TSS Survey (01/29/07)
• Governor's Commission for Children and Families Submit Recommendations (01/03/07)

2006

• Monitoring of Restraint Compliance for PRTFs (12/08/06)
• Children's Behavioral Health Draft Report Released for Comment (11/28/06)
• Autism Affairs Update - Department of Public Welfare (11/24/06)
• DPW Withdraws Plan for Loophole Premium (10/31/06)
• Early Intervention Fiscal Study Announced (10/27/06)
• ACT Forums Continue - Notes From Sanctuary Model Presentation (10/27/06)
• Child Residential Program Utilization Trends Survey: Voice Your Agency’s Experience Now (10/25/06)
• Survey of Child Residential Program Utilization Trends (10/06/06)
• Alliance for Youth Seeks 100 Best Communities (10/05/06)
• Helping Communities Address School Violence (10/02/06)
• SAMHSA Joint Resolution for Transforming Children's Mental Health (10/01/06)
• School Based Behavioral Health Grant Development (09/07/06)
• TSS Compensation and Retention Survey (09/06/06)
• School Based Behavioral Health RFP Issued Department of Education (08/23/06)
• Rural Autism Service RFP Reissued (08/04/06)
• DPW Youth Suicide Prevention Survey (07/31/06)
• DPW Provides Guidance to Residential Providers (07/05/06)
• LB&FC Releases Report on Child Mental Health System (06/22/06)
• Child Mental Health Report to the LB&FC (06/14/06)
• Participate in Pennsylvania's FASD Awareness Activities (06/13/06)
• Training on Trauma Informed Care (05/31/06)
• Association Comments on Draft Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Regulations (05/23/06)
• DPW to Fund Rural Autism Services (05/23/06)
• School Mental Health Grant Opportunity (05/09/06)
• PRTF Draft Regulations Released (04/21/06)
• Children's Partial Hospital Draft Bulletins Released (03/28/06)
• Locations Added for Partial Hospital Forums (03/10/06)
• OCYF Monitoring Tool for Kinship Providers (03/02/06)
• Child/Adolescent Partial Hospital Forums Scheduled (02/24/06)
• Request for Autism Services Proposal (02/08/06)
• Performance Data Collection for ICSI (02/07/06)
• Consent and Confidentiality Manual Revised (02/03/06)
• Residential Regional Restraint Forums (02/03/06)
• DPW Issues Special Transmittal on Use of Restraint (02/01/06)
• School-Based Behavioral Health Conference Announced (02/01/06)
• Building Codes Impact Children's Programs (01/20/06)
• DPW Updates ICSI Provider Listing (01/16/06)
• Provider Leadership to Be Invited to DPW Residential Restraint Reduction Forum (01/10/06)

2005

• OMAP Identifies Interim Contacts (12/20/05)
• ICSI Focused on Performance Data (12/05/05)
• Residential Restraint Reduction Kick-off Postponed (12/02/05)
• Residential Restraint Reduction to Begin (11/30/05)
• RTF Joint Work Group Meeting Scheduled (11/18/05)
• DPW Conducts MA Realignment Conference Calls (11/08/05)
• RTF Quality Report Released (10/26/05)
• School Mental Health Grant Opportunity (10/18/05)
• Revisions Planned for Chapter 3800 Medication Administration Training (09/19/05)
• Children's Mental Health Regulations and Bulletins to Be Revised (09/01/05)
• New Information Resource for the Integrated Children's Services Initiative (07/27/05)
• More Guidance for Integrated Children's Services Planning (07/11/05)
• Bulletin Revises BHRS for Children With Autism and Developmental Disabilities (06/22/05)
• DPW Releases Bulletin for Integrated Children’s Service Planning (06/14/05)
• Residential Treatment Facility Joint Work Group Meeting Scheduled (05/24/05)
• Residential Treatment Facility IPPRO Survey Results (05/11/05)
• DPW and Counties Launch Integrated Children's Services Planning (05/09/05)
• Autism Early Detection Initiative Announced by DPW (03/03/05)
• Head Start Expansion Opportunity (02/22/05)
• DPW Restructures the Children's Behavioral Health Task Force (01/31/05)
• Provider Guidance on Mental Health Age of Consent (01/27/05)
• DPW Releases Autism Report and Recommendations (01/04/05)

2004

• Juvenile Law Center Analyzes Age of Consent Law (12/21/04)
• New Bulletin Issued for Summer Therapeutic Activities Program (12/17/04)
• Advice for Members of the Children's Behavioral Health Task Force (12/02/04)
• MA Bulletins Discontinue Kirk T. Reporting (11/23/04)
• Children Receiving SSI Income Eligible for MA (11/02/04)
• Child and Adolescent Partial Hospital Model Practice and Parent Survey (10/21/04)
• OMR Early Intervention Rate Policy Work Group Now Forming (10/12/04)
• Children's Commission Local Forums Scheduled (09/24/04)
• DPW Creates New Office of Child Development (09/08/04)
• OMHSAS/Department of Education Survey Child & Adolescent Partial Programs (08/23/04)
• PCPA Comments on Autism Task Force Reports (08/23/04)
• DPW Begins Elimination of Kirk T. BHRS Data Reporting (07/09/04)
• DOH and Penn Survey Caregivers of Persons With Autism (06/29/04)
• DPW Official Notice: Autism Task Force Reports (06/15/04)
• AutismLink Seeks Provider Input (05/05/04)
• May 4 is Childhood Depression Awareness Day (04/30/04)
• PCPA and ELC Report on Educational Services for Children in Partial Hsopital (04/21/04)
• Children & Family Commission Appointed by Rendell (04/14/04)
• DPW Initiates County-Level Integrated Children's Services Planning (04/14/04)
• DPW Accepting Applications for Children's Behavioral Health Taskforce (03/31/04)
• DPW Report on Children's MA "Loop Hole" (03/30/04)
• DPW to Form Children's Behavioral Health Task Force (03/22/04)
• BHRS - Kirk T. Settlement Amended (02/19/04)
• Proposals Requested for Juvenile Program (01/23/04)

2003

• PA Youth Suicide Prevention Plan Available (12/27/03)
• CMS Issues Seclusion & Restraint Guidance (12/23/03)
• OCY to Issue 11 - 15 Passenger Van Clarification (11/01/03)
• Disparities in Mental Health Care for Children Noted (10/27/03)
• Rendell Establishes Children's Cabinet (09/18/03)
• PCPA and ELC Address Partial Hospital Concerns (08/27/03)
• Federal Entitlements: Access to Children's Mental Health (09/22/03)
• Proposed Constitutional Changes Protect Children (08/12/03)
• Family Support Services Evaluation Conducted (06/04/03)
• PCPA Testifies on Adolescent's Access to D&A Services (04/28/03)
• Children's Search Conference Report Available (02/26/03)
• OMHSAS Reviewing BHRS Charts (01/30/03)
• White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth (01/28/03)

2002

• DPW Releases Autism Report (12/20/02)
• Payment Available for Secure RTFs (09/30/02)
• PCPA President Provides Autism Testimony (08/15/02)
• Autism Hearings Scheduled (07/12/02)
• Children's Services in the New Budget (07/10/02)
• BHRS Bulletins Delayed (07/01/02)
• PCPA Responds to Proposed BHRS Regulations (06/21/01)
• Draft RTF Program Standards Released (05/31/02)
• Parents Notified of MA Eligibility Changes (04/30/02)
• Chapter 1165 (RTF) Draft Regulations (04/02/02)
• Chapter 1157 (TR-RTF) Draft Regulations (04/02/02)
• BHRS Medical Necessity Documentation (04/02/02)
• Draft RTF Regulations Released (03/28/04)
• "Secure" RTF Development Proposed (03/10/02)
• BHRS Draft Regulations Being Revised (03/01/02)

2001

• OMAP Posts Responses to BHRS Questions (12/06/01)
• PPC Prepares Budget Proposal for FBMHS (09/29/01)
• PCPA Addresses FBMHS Draft Regulations (08/01/01)
• DPW Issues RTF Bulletin on Secusion & Restraint (07/26/01)
• Special Education Regulations, Early Intervention, and Charter Schools (06/26/01)
• Children & Youth Regulations Published (06/05/01)
• RTF Seclusion & Restrain Draft Bulletin Needs Immediate Comment (06/18/01)
• DPW Issues Draft BHRS Bulletin and Regulations (05/30/01)
• OMAP Responds to Questions By Children's Providers (05/27/01)
• DPW Presents Information on BHRS (05/09/01)
• OMAP Releases Bulletin About BSC & MT (05/01/01)
• DPW Reinforces Medical Neccessity of BHR Services (03/08/01)
• PIN Releases Special Education News (02/19/01)
• Medicaid and CHIP Regulations Delayed (01/31/01)
• HCFA Issues Interim Final Rule on Seclusion & Restraint Effective May 22(01/31/01)
• DPW Highlights Kirk T. Implementation (01/25/01)
• DPW Responds to SAP Question (01/08/01)
• TSS Prior Authorization Required Beginning March 1 (01/03/01)

2000

• DPW Releases TSS Draft Bulletin Comments (12/22/00)
• Plaintiff Counsel Outlines Kirk T. Settlement (12/06/00)
• OMAP Releases Second Draft of TSS Prior Authorization Bulletin (12/01/00)
• Seclusion & Restraint Draft Bulletin Re-Released for Comment (11/14/00)
• PCPA Responds to TSS Prior Authorization Draft Bulletin (11/10/00)
• TSS Prior Authorization Draft Bulletin Released (10/26/00)
• Chapter 3800 Med Administration Training Requirement Delayed (08/02/00)
• PCPA Response to Draft Seclusion & Restraint Bulletin (04/28/00)
• Targeted Case Management Criteria Available (04/14/00)
• OMHSAS Seeks Comments on Best Practice Bulletin for Seclusion & Restraint (03/17/00)

1999

• Information Sought regarding Psychiatric Time in RTFs (12/14/99)
• Medication Administration Training Draft Bulletin Released for Comment (10/15/99)
• Chapter 3800 Draft Licensing Measurement Instrument Available (07/14/99)
• Medicaid Reinstated for Some Families Affected by TANF (07/07/99)
• Juvenile Justice Issues Take Forefront (05/26/99)
• School Violence Bills Moving in PA House and Senate (05/13/99)
• Medical Assistance Bulletin Changes Date on Non-Fee Scheduled Services (03/02/99)
• OMAP/OMHSAS Update EPSDT Draft Bulletin (01/16/99)

1998

• Coalition for Responsible Wraparound Addresses Secretary Houstoun (12/15/98)
• Comments Requested - Children's Health insurance Program (11/12/98)

Reducing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint: A National Initiative toward Culture Change and Transformation

Providing Behavioral Health Care Services to Children and Adolescents in Pennsylvania; A Plan for Action and Reform

Overview: PCPA Child/Adolescent Domain Structure

PCPA/ELC Report on Educational Services for
Children in Partial Hospital

Federal Entitlements: Access to Children's Mental Health (Teaming Up - 09/22/03)

Search Conference Report (02/26/03)