TY - JOUR PY - 1996// TI - A longitudinal evaluation of a system of care for children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance JO - Evaluation and program planning A1 - Pandiani, John A. A1 - Schacht, Lucille M. A1 - Banks, Steven M. SP - 365 EP - 376 VL - 19 IS - 4 N2 - A longitudinal program evaluation of the Vermont system of care for children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance that focuses on movement between residential placements and compares actual system functioning to service system philosophy and values. A person level longitudinal database is used to generate a system level program evaluation based on mathematical modeling theory. The methodology demonstrated in this paper can be useful to program evaluators in a number of different fields.

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