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Accessing Services 
Student Multi-Agency Resource Team (SMART)
SMART, the Student Multi-Agency Resource Team, began in 2001 in the Portland Public Schools. The SMART team pulls together a person-centered and family-centered group of school, state and community providers to identify services for students/families with complex needs. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the coalition’s support of children with emotional and behavioral needs and their families through analyzing lessons learned, the advantages and disadvantages of the coalition, and identifying barriers to replicating the initiative in other schools. CMS has provided funding for this 3-year project under the 2001 Real Choices Systems Change grant solicitation.
Reports & Products
Useful Links and Resources
- Instituting School-Based Links with Mental Health and Social Service
Agencies is part of a series of "Safe and Secure: Guide to Creating
Safer Schools." The section under "School-Community Collaboration"
is of interest to this project.
HTML version, PDF version - The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice offers a very
general definition of wraparound services.
http://cecp.air.org/wraparound/intro.html - Lehigh Valley Wraparound is an example of a school-based wraparound service that is offered in a school system in Pennsylvania. It has some similarities with the SMART service at the Portland schools. [Update 5/10/07: Lehigh Valley discontinued Wraparound site.]
- Wraparound Milwaukee is a service that integrates the school system
with corrections, mental health providers, and the child welfare system.
It's been cited as a national model by the New Freedom Commission on
Mental Health. It's funded with pooled funds from many departments.
http://www.milwaukeecounty.org/Service/OrganizationDetail.asp?org=6450&audience=
Project Contact
Catherine Ormond
V oice: 207-780-4015 or 800-800-4876, ext. 4015
TTY: 207-780-5646 or 866-783-6461
Fax: 207-780-4953
Email: cormond@usm.maine.edu
