IDEAS Center History
The IDEAS Center is built on over two decades of collaborative partnerships between academic research institutions, New York State, and many state and national stakeholders, including youth and families, mental health providers, and state policymakers. The majority of our current IDEAS faculty and staff members contributed to the creation of our Developing Center (P20MH078178) as well as our Advanced Center (P30MH090322), and built the many partnerships we have with Center stakeholders, including state and national policymakers, parents, parent advocates, and mental health providers. These previous two Centers focused on identifying the challenges to evidence-based practice implementation in states, and developing interventions and strategies to meet those challenges.
With this new NIMH-funded ALACRITY Center, we have now turned our focus to the state policymaking arena, and are dedicated to developing tools and techniques to help states better integrate children's mental health research evidence into the policymaking process. We are also helping states to provide more effective care for their most high-need and high-cost populations, developing and testing innovative strategies to accelerate the quality of care for youth visiting the emergency department for mental health care, and youth with first episode psychosis. Treating youth with serious mental health disorders (SMHD) more effectively, and more efficiently, is a top priority for the majority of states across the nation.
Many of our faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and staff also work collaboratively with two New York State-funded technical assistance and training centers: The Community Technical Assistance Center (CTAC), and the Evidence-Based Treatment Dissemination Center (EBTDC), conducting research on the uptake of evidence-based practices by NYS' clinics, or evaluating quality improvement initiatives. Research findings from these collaborations with CTAC and EBTDC have been, and will continue to be translated and disseminated via CTAC and EBTDC's clinical and business trainings to all of New York State's child and adult-serving clinics, programs, and providers. For example, IDEAS researchers studied the adoption of innovations by NYS' child-serving clinics; understanding these patterns of adoption as well as clinician dropout through data collection and qualitative interviews, and the sustainability of these initiatives, allowed the New York State Office of Mental Health to adjust, and importantly tailor, costly and time-consuming rollouts of evidence-based practices.
Click here to meet our current IDEAS team of researchers.
With this new NIMH-funded ALACRITY Center, we have now turned our focus to the state policymaking arena, and are dedicated to developing tools and techniques to help states better integrate children's mental health research evidence into the policymaking process. We are also helping states to provide more effective care for their most high-need and high-cost populations, developing and testing innovative strategies to accelerate the quality of care for youth visiting the emergency department for mental health care, and youth with first episode psychosis. Treating youth with serious mental health disorders (SMHD) more effectively, and more efficiently, is a top priority for the majority of states across the nation.
Many of our faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and staff also work collaboratively with two New York State-funded technical assistance and training centers: The Community Technical Assistance Center (CTAC), and the Evidence-Based Treatment Dissemination Center (EBTDC), conducting research on the uptake of evidence-based practices by NYS' clinics, or evaluating quality improvement initiatives. Research findings from these collaborations with CTAC and EBTDC have been, and will continue to be translated and disseminated via CTAC and EBTDC's clinical and business trainings to all of New York State's child and adult-serving clinics, programs, and providers. For example, IDEAS researchers studied the adoption of innovations by NYS' child-serving clinics; understanding these patterns of adoption as well as clinician dropout through data collection and qualitative interviews, and the sustainability of these initiatives, allowed the New York State Office of Mental Health to adjust, and importantly tailor, costly and time-consuming rollouts of evidence-based practices.
Click here to meet our current IDEAS team of researchers.
