The Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) Resource

Welcome to the Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) web page.
The California Integrated Core Practice Model for Children, Youth, and Families 2024 (ICPM) is a guide for effective service delivery within the trauma-informed Children and Youth System of Care (CYSOC) mandated by AB 2083. The model emphasizes the importance of healing relationships, nurturing family, parents and caregivers, cultural appropriateness, and timely and accessible services for at-risk children and youth.
This updated ICPM provides a research-based framework supporting the CYSOC as a collective impact approach. This revision of the ICPM expands on and applies prior core practice models and includes new and revised content informed by representative stakeholders across the system, and new information from social neuroscience and mind-body research. The perspectives and experiences of foster youth, parents, tribes, public education agencies, regional centers, and community-based prevention and service providers were generously shared by teams of subject matter experts.

The ICPM provides practical guidance and direction to support CYSOC partners and community-based providers in California with the most current best practices for the delivery of timely, effective, and collaborative services to children, youth, nonminor dependents (NMDs), and families. The ICPM, when used consistently among and between partners and professionals in all engagement opportunities, is the organizational and relational glue for the System of Care.

The ICPM contains a wealth of information for leaders and practitioners across the system. The critical practice behaviors for both leaders and direct service personnel, found in Chapter Three, can also be viewed as a stand-alone resource and can be used as a desk reference, supervisory or training tool. [Further Reading]