The Principal Research Core's central purpose is to stimulate and support the development of innovative,partnered research on improving the quality of mental health care. Our partnered research examinesoutcomes relevant to the policy, practice, and/or the broader community.
The Specific Aims are:1) To promote the development of new investigators in quality of care research, through providingopportunities for analyses of existing data sets and collaboration with our partners in new directions,with support from a Partnered Research Development Project. This project will allow a juniorinvestigator to respond to community generated priorities regarding depression care for Korean-American youth.2) To stimulate new research through three R34's as follows:a. One R34 will examine how mental health care consumers choose and are impacted byconsumer-directed health plans (a patient-centered pilot focused on policy outcomes).b. One R34 will assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel model for managingconsumer providers within organizations providing care to persons with serious mentalillness (a patient-centered pilot focused on practice level outcomes)c. One R34 will identify organizational and consumer factors that affect dissemination of aCognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (a patient-centered pilot focused onboth practice and broader community level outcomes).To move our research findings into practice through a partnered Work Group with California state agencies.The Research Translation Work Group will be co-chaired by this Core's academic Principal Investigators andby the heads of a state-level consortium of agency leaders, providers, and consumers who have beencommissioned to meet the legislative mandate of improving the quality of publicly-funded mental health carein California. The goal of this Work Group is to improve the Center's responsiveness to the emerging needsfor quality improvement programs as the Mental Health Services Act ('the millionaire's tax') funds qualityimprovement interventions across the state
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