Acute psychiatric hospitalizations reduced. The average number of acute psychiatric hospitalizations among children and youth dropped 34 percent in 1997 after the Sonoma County, CA, program got underway. These reductions in hospitalization, down from the average 8.2 hospitalizations per month in 1995 and 1996, represented a cost savings of 48 percent. Lengths of residential stay reduced. A child s average length of stay in a residential placement is now 112 days, a 58 percent decrease from the average 270 days before the Wraparound Program in Milwaukee began.
Children stay in communities.
Samples ranged from 1,488 to 1,780 youth and children across sites and from 27 to 178 at specific sites. CMHS Bulletin Volume 3, No.