THE IDEAS CENTER
Improving State-Delivered
Children's Mental Health Care
Children's Mental Health Care
Welcome to IDEASWelcome to IDEAS, an NIMH-funded ALACRITY Center dedicated to improving the quality of state-delivered mental health care services for youth and their families, nationwide.
Our Center focus: developing tools and strategies to help states across the nation to better integrate cutting-edge scientific research evidence into their children's mental health policymaking process (Research Project 1). And designing and testing interventions to accelerate the quality of care for youth with the most serious mental health disorders, including those who visit emergency departments seeking mental health treatment (Research Project 2) for depression, and adolescents and young adults with first episode psychosis (Research Project 3). We believe this two-pronged approach, focused on improving the utilization of research evidence into state children's mental health policymaking, and testing innovative strategies to care for states' most high-need and high-cost youth populations, will accelerate improvements in outcomes for youth and their families, and help states provide more effective, efficient care. Our collaborative team of researchers from six leading academic institutions and our Center stakeholders, including state and national policymakers, health and behavioral health care providers, and parents and youth with mental health disorders, drives the work that we do each day to improve care for youth with the most serious mental health needs. 
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News & NotesNew Training Opportunity in Systems Science (Brown School)
The four tracks include: Agent-Based Modeling, Group Model Building, Social Network Analysis, and System Dynamics. Visit the Brown School website for more information and an applications; applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. RAPICE Training at IDEASMany thanks to Dr. Larry Palinkas, University of Southern California, who provided IDEAS with training in Rapid Assessment Procedure Informed Clinical Ethnography (RAPICE), which we will be using in all three of our @NIMHgov ALACRITY Center studies.
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Research Project 1
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Research Project 2
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Research Project 3
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Our Research-Practice-Policy Partnership with New York State Office of Mental Health
“It serves us (NYS OMH) because we understand the system better, and make better policy decisions, and it helps them because they get to showcase their skills and publish ... so it is mutually beneficial process. I think what has happened with all of the systems change over the last year or two is that the relationship has gone from mutually beneficial, to symbiotic, and absolutely, positively critical for doing the work that we do.
- Donna Bradbury, Associate Commissioner
Division of Integrated Community Services for Children and Families New York State Office of Mental Health |
The IDEAS Center and those listed below, is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) initiative, called the
Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY)
Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY)
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