The overarching goal of the proposed Advanced Center to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Care(ACIPMHC) is to improve care for children with mental health problems by achieving greater integration ofevidence-based practice in community care settings, particularly in the Child Welfare and Mental Healthservice sectors. The Community Network Core (CMC) of the ACIPMHC is designed to support thedevelopment of collaborative partnerships between researchers and community stakeholders, includingconsumers (youth and family members), policy makers, and providers.
The first aim of the CNC is toformalize and extend existing collaborative relationships with public service sector stakeholders and form aCommunity Network Core Board (CNC-B) with key policy, practice and consumer partners.
The second aimi s to collaboratively pursue and refine ACIPMHC aims that encourage the integration of evidence-basedknowledge and practice in real-world clinical care through: prioritizing service needs through joint analysis ofmulti-sector administrative datasets, fostering partnerships to support proposed studies, designing newstudies in collaboration, and supporting in-vivo training opportunities in research-practice partnerships forinvestigators and community stakeholders.
The third aim i s to evaluate the processes and outcomes of theCNC with qualitative and quantitative research methods and apply findings to the development of researchpracticepartnership models and methods.
The fourth aim i s to provide consultation and technicalassistance to ACIPMHC investigators and partners, as well as to other academic and community sites.Building the CNC collaboration we will use a staged theory in which the goal is to move from our currentstage of investigator initiated research, through joint formulation of research questions, to true communitybasedresearch where partners jointly determine research questions, methods for conducting the research,and the dissemination of information. In addition, a collaboratively developed, youth generated and led pilotstudy will be conducted. We will also work to refine an evolving model illustrating the structures andarocesses of collaboration that impact the achievement of partnership synergy and ultimate success ofDartnership efforts. The Co-Pis represent ACIPMHC, and San Diego County Child Welfare and Children'sVlental Health Services. Members include sector and provider representatives, consumer representatives(youth and family members), and representatives from the California Department of Mental Health and thealifornia Institute of Mental Health. Activities will be coordinated by an Executive Coordinator in conjunctionwith the CNC Co-Pis.
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