MD CARES

1. MD CARES A partnership of agencies, families, providers and community working to ensure safe, healthy families in Baltimore City Youth and families are at the core of these efforts. They play key decision making roles in the care they receive but also help MD CARES improve how the system works and reach out to the community. Maryland Coalition of Families (MCF) is the statewide family network dedicated to help families with children that have mental health needs navigate the system. MCF partners with Wraparound MD with families who have care coordination through family support partners. Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc (BMHS) provides the local leadership l as ensuring youth involvement and neighborhood involvement to ensure services are cultural and linguistic competency components. Wraparound MD provides direct care coordination for the families receiving services from MD CARES, as they do for all other public mental health care coordination for children in Baltimore City. University of MD, School of Social Work provides both the evaluation team responsible for quality improvement. Housed at the school is the Institute for Innovation and Implementation - the statewide project manager and training to agencies and providers. Baltimore City agencies are key partners in improving coordination and effectiveness of their services through MD CARES. In addition to BMHS, the organizations are: The Family League; Dept. of Social Services Department of Juvenile Services; Health Department; Balt. Health Care Access for Child Welfare; Balt. Substance Abuse Systems; Public School System State Agencies– The Mental Hygiene Administration, the grantee, works in partnership with the Governor’s Office for Children, the Department of Human Resources, and other Children’s Cabinet Agencies to support MD CARES by providing match funding , infrastructure support , and sustainability planning. MD CARES, c/o MCF – Baltimore City | 2701 N. Charles St., 4th fl. Baltimore, MD 21218 | www.mdcares.org | 410.235.6340