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

IDEAS Events​

Register for the IDEAS Center's first research methods seminar, September 16, 1:30-3 p.m. Children’s Mental Health and the Life Course Model: A Virtual Workshop Series, by Drs. Kimberly Hoagwood and Neal Halfon. Register here!

IDEAS News and Notes

NIMH Features ALACRITY Centers, IDEAS Focus: Child Mental Health Policymaking

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NIMH recently highlighted the work of IDEAS Center in a summary of the July 2019 ALACRITY Director's meeting. The ALACRITY Centers are "engines for advancing innovation in practice-relevant research," said Joel Sherrill, deputy director of the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research. Click here to learn more about NIMH's ALACRITY Centers.

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 information. 

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).