White Papers about Building Bridges
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NEW!!! ⇒ Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Guidelines for Residential Programs (December 2011)
This document was created to provide advice to residential agencies, community agency executives, board members, practitioners, young people and their families, policy makers, and advocates about the elements and processes necessary to create culturally and linguistically competent residential programs. The Guidelines address the organizational structure, practices, and service delivery approaches that improve cultural and linguistic competence and are informed by implementation research and emerging promising practices.
- Fiscal Strategies that Support the Building Bridges Principles (October 2011)
This document contains information on several identified fiscal solutions developed to support operationalizing BBI principles into practice. Examples demonstrate that innovative work integrating residential care within a community-based system of care is happening across the country and inform readers of successful strategies that may have application in their state/county/community/provider efforts to implement BBI principles.
- Innovative Practices for Transformation (January 2008)
This white paper is an effort to record the overarching themes of the rich, exploratory conversations of the Building Bridges Summit meetings – and offer a sample of the many detailed practice suggestions and challenges that were discussed.

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