In this issue of \u003ci\u003eChild and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics\u003c/i\u003e, guest editors Drs. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, Rupinder K. Legha, and Michelle P. Durham bring their considerable expertise to the topic of \u003cb\u003eHome and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis\u003c/b\u003e. 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.\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eContains \u003cb\u003e15 relevant, practice-oriented topics\u003c/b\u003e including federal, state, and local mental health policy interventions in response to the pediatric mental health crisis from the COVID pandemic; trauma-informed response and prevention of mental health crisis in schools using a Culturally Responsive, Antiracist and Equitable (CARE) framework; coordinated systems of care approaches for pediatric emergency and crisis stabilization, mobile treatment, and wraparound services; integrating the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Trauma Informed Framework in inpatient, day treatment, partial hospitalization, residential, and community based treatment settings; understanding the social and structural determinants for special populations related to suicide prevention in the BIPOC and LGBTQI communities; and more.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eProvides in-depth \u003cb\u003eclinical reviews on home and community based services for youth and families in crisis\u003c/b\u003e, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePresents the \u003cb\u003elatest information on this timely, focused topic\u003c/b\u003e under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e
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