IDEAS Center Awarded ALACRITY Grant
May 22, 2019 -- Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor and Vice Chair for Research in New York University’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Langone Health, and Mary McKay, Ph.D., Dean, Washington University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, were awarded a four-year, $6,736,386 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to improve the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in public health and mental health systems serving low-income, largely minority children and adolescents with mental health disorders. Co-directors of the Center Drs. Hoagwood and McKay lead an interdisciplinary team of investigators, combining the expertise of services and dissemination/implementation researchers nationally, many of whom have collaborated on two previously funded NIMH Centers [(Implementing EBP’s for Children; P20MH078178; Center for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices among States (IDEAS); P30MH090322)]. Click here for full press release.
This Center, called IDEAS—will be the only national child and adolescent mental health policy research center in the country to develop and test accelerator strategies for improving dissemination of evidence-based practices for children and adolescents with serious mental health disorders in public health and mental health systems. The Center includes a broad and national network of collaborators, and will launch three specific research projects on critical policy issues, coordinated through a Methods Core co-led by Sarah Horwitz, Ph.D., NYU, Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., University of Chicago, and Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., University of Southern California. One research project will include a nationwide study of how state policymakers use research evidence about children’s mental health, and will develop a simulation model to increase the use of research evidence in state mental health policymaking processes (PI Jonathan Purtle, Drexel University). A second project will study the implementation of a low-cost, diagnostic tool and corresponding feedback protocol to improve the diagnosis and follow-up care of youth visiting emergency departments for mental health problems (PIs Horwitz and Gerson, NYU). A third project will study implementation of a low-cost, low-burden peer-to-peer intervention by family peer advocates to increase the engagement of parent/caregivers in treatment of children with severe mental disorders (PI Hoagwood)
This new Center (IDEAS2) builds on a 15-year state-academic partnership between PIs Hoagwood and McKay, and the New York State Office of Mental Health (with Donna Bradbury, Associate Commissioner, Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families). It also includes an extensive research infrastructure and network of state policymakers, payors, agencies, providers, youth and families, along with a national network of child researchers. The Center leverages successful federal investments in training talented, early career child and adolescent mental health services researchers, consolidating resources and expertise through Washington University’s training platform. As such, the Center is uniquely positioned to improve the quality of mental health services for low-income, minority youth with serious mental health disorders and their families.
This Center, called IDEAS—will be the only national child and adolescent mental health policy research center in the country to develop and test accelerator strategies for improving dissemination of evidence-based practices for children and adolescents with serious mental health disorders in public health and mental health systems. The Center includes a broad and national network of collaborators, and will launch three specific research projects on critical policy issues, coordinated through a Methods Core co-led by Sarah Horwitz, Ph.D., NYU, Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., University of Chicago, and Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., University of Southern California. One research project will include a nationwide study of how state policymakers use research evidence about children’s mental health, and will develop a simulation model to increase the use of research evidence in state mental health policymaking processes (PI Jonathan Purtle, Drexel University). A second project will study the implementation of a low-cost, diagnostic tool and corresponding feedback protocol to improve the diagnosis and follow-up care of youth visiting emergency departments for mental health problems (PIs Horwitz and Gerson, NYU). A third project will study implementation of a low-cost, low-burden peer-to-peer intervention by family peer advocates to increase the engagement of parent/caregivers in treatment of children with severe mental disorders (PI Hoagwood)
This new Center (IDEAS2) builds on a 15-year state-academic partnership between PIs Hoagwood and McKay, and the New York State Office of Mental Health (with Donna Bradbury, Associate Commissioner, Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families). It also includes an extensive research infrastructure and network of state policymakers, payors, agencies, providers, youth and families, along with a national network of child researchers. The Center leverages successful federal investments in training talented, early career child and adolescent mental health services researchers, consolidating resources and expertise through Washington University’s training platform. As such, the Center is uniquely positioned to improve the quality of mental health services for low-income, minority youth with serious mental health disorders and their families.