Welcome to the Center for Implementation-Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices among States, known as the IDEAS Center, one of eight NIMH-funded ALACRITY Centers. We are the only ALACRITY Center dedicated to developing strategies to accelerate improvements in the quality of care received by children and families in state health and mental health systems. 

The Center, co-directed by Dr. Kimberly Hoagwood at NYU, and Dr. Mary McKay at The Brown School of Social Work at Washington University (St. Louis), builds on over two decades of partnership with Center stakeholders-- providers, parents and youth, and policymakers in NYS-- and pools significant research, training, administrative and scientific resources. 

Our transdisciplinary team includes nationally recognized expertise spanning seven academic disciplines (systems science and computational modeling, social work, child psychiatry, anthropology, health statistics, epidemiology and health policy and management) and six academic institutions, creating a truly unique laboratory. 

Click here to join our growing community and help us in our efforts to accelerate the delivery of quality mental health services to children and families served in state health and mental healthcare systems.

Thanks for visiting our Center. 

Kimberly Hoagwood, PhD
IDEAS Center Co-Director,
Vice Chair for Research, 
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 
NYU Langone Medical Center

Mary McKay, PhD
IDEAS Center Co-Director,
Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean,
Brown School of Social Work
Washington University
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IDEAS Methods Core Events​

Children’s Mental Health and the Life Course Model: Epidemiology  
All IDEAS faculty and staff are invited to a webinar by Stephen Buka, ScD, Founding Chair, Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, who will host a discussion about the epidemiology of children's mental health disorders. The webinar as part of a virtual workshop series co-organized by the MCH Life Course Intervention Research Network and the National Academies' Forum for Children's Well-Being. This will take place Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT. Registration for this event is now open.

IDEAS News and Notes

​IDEAS Receives NIDA Supplement to Examine Substance Use Policymaking   

Dr. Kimberly Hoagwood was recently awarded a supplemental grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. With this supplement, the Center will also be able to examine youth substance use, and develop tools to integrate scientific evidence into state policymaking aimed at decreasing youth substance abuse. Click here for more.

NIMH Features ALACRITY Centers, IDEAS Focus on Child MH Policymaking

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NIMH recently highlighted the work of the IDEAS Center in a summary of the July 2019 ALACRITY Director's meeting. 

IDEAS Awarded $6.7M NIMH Grant to Improve Mental Health Services for Youth & Families in State Systems

Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor and Vice Chair for Research in NYU'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, $6.7M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to develop and test strategies to accelerate improvements in the quality of mental healthcare received by children and families in state health and mental health systems. Click here for more. 

Dr. Sally Horwitz named Faculty Mentor of the Year by Department

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Sally Horwitz, Ph.D., was awarded Mentor of the Year by the NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Bellevue Hospital. The award recognizes the significant contributions Dr. Horwitz has made in mentoring many researchers in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Bellevue Hospital. Congratulations to Dr. Horwitz!

Interested in Upcoming Managing & Adapting Practice (MAP) Trainings?

The Evidence-Based Treatment and Dissemination Center provides free training on evidence-based practices to New York State clinicians (only NYS-based) through its Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP) decision support tool. Click here to join the EBTDC mailing list to receive more information about clinical trainings. 
* Please note, MAP training is a clinical framework and decision support tool it is not related to the Health Home Serving Children Medicaid Analytics Performance Portal (MAPP).