IDEAS Center News & Notes
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Dr. Hoagwood Co-Authors Special Issue Festschrift for Len BickmanA new special issue "Festschrift" dedicated to the lifelong work of Len Bickman was recently published in Administration and Policy in Mental Health. Dr. Hoagwood co-authored the Introduction, which lays out the three overarching themes of the issue (improving precision and use of service data to guide policy and practice, implementation and dissemination, and preparing for innovation, as well as the article on innovative practices in outpatient mental health clinics (Fenwick et al., 2020). The complete contents of the special issue can be found here.
March 2020: IDEAS Policy Research Fellow Present at the Prevention Science & Methodology Group Virtual Grand Rounds
The IDEAS Center new Policy Research Fellows, Dr. Gracelyn Cruden (Oregon Social Learning Center) and Dr. Rebecca Lengnick-Hall (Washington University), recently presented "System-level Evidence Based Practice Implementation Research: Same Questions, Different Method" at the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology Virtual Grand Rounds (March 30th). They talk about their own individual research, as well as how their work intersects to more quickly work toward the ultimate goal of providing usable tools to help leaders make decisions over the course of the implementation of mental health programs and practices. Click here to view the webinar. |
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Dr. Palinkas visits IDEAS to Train Faculty and Research Team in RAPICE
Dr. Larry Palinkas, professor a the University of Southern California (USC) Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and Co-Director of the IDEAS Center Research Methods Core (RMC), provided RAPICE training to IDEAS faculty and staff in February of 2020. Dr. Palinkas, who is trained as an anthropologist, has been conducting ethnographic studies for several decades, in diverse settings, including healthcare (e.g. trauma centers use of evidence-based practices), climatology (i.e., isolation of Antarctic wintering personnel), and even the cosmos, studying stress, coping, and group dynamics at the International Space Station (ISS). Learn more about his work here. |
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November 2019: Characteristics of States that Provide Evidence-Based Care (Bruns et al., 2019)
New out in Implementation Science. Dr. Hoagwood and colleagues describe the factors affecting the implementation of evidence-based treatments in public mental healthcare systems. Click here to read this new article out on November 13, 2019. |
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November 2019: User-Centered Design in Conducting Children's Mental Health Research
Thank you to Emily Friedman, MID, CPE, who visited the IDEAS Center today (11/13/19) to provide a seminar on user-centered design. Emily is working with the University of Washington ALACRITY Center to help them adapt evidence-based therapies to better fit local needs. Thanks for sharing your expertise with IDEAS! |
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September 2019: IDEAS Receives NIDA Supplement to Examine Substance Use Policymaking
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, NYU Langone Health, was recently awarded a $204,111 supplemental grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Learn more here. |
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July 2019: NIMH Features IDEAS Center & Focus on Child Mental Health Policymaking
NIMH recently highlighted the work of the IDEAS Center in a summary of the July 2019 ALACRITY Director's meeting. |
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June 2019: 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 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)]. Learn more here. |
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May 2019: Dr. Horwitz named Faculty Mentor of Year by Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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! |
