TY - JOUR
T1 - Building bridges to evidence-based practice
T2 - The MacArthur Foundation Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (child STEPs)
AU - Schoenwald, Sonja K.
AU - Kelleher, Kelly
AU - Weisz, John R.
AU - Chorpita, Bruce
AU - Gibbons, Robert
AU - Glisson, Charles
AU - Green, Evelyn Polk
AU - Hoagwood, Kimberly Eaton
AU - Jensen, Peter S.
AU - Landsverk, John
AU - Mayberg, Stephen
AU - Miranda, Jeanne
AU - Palinkas, Lawrence
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement Preparation of this manuscript was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and grant DA018107 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Funding Information:
The Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (Child STEPs) initiative was launched in 2003 by the Research Network on Youth Mental Health,1 funded by the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation, to help bridge the science-practice gap in children’s mental health services. Science-practice gaps have a long history in this nation’s health (including mental health), education, and welfare enterprises. In 1963, Senator Hubert Humphrey issued the following call to action in the American Psychologist: ‘‘We need people to build bridges from research to community programs. The bridges must lead from scientific symposia to the halls of Congress, to Federal office buildings, state legislatures, city halls, school boards, chambers of commerce, trade unions, service clubs, PTAs, churches and temples, neighborhoods, street corners, and every other arena of opinion and action ‘‘ (Humphrey 1963, p. 291).
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - The papers in this special issue describe research undertaken by the MacArthur Foundation-funded Research Network on Youth Mental Health. The project is designed to understand the challenges of implementing evidence-based treatments in community-based mental health practices. This Introduction and the following articles describe the impetus and conceptual framework underlying one cluster of the Network's activity-i.e., the Clinic Systems Project (CSP). The CSP studies examined the organizational and service system environments in a large national sample of community mental health and affiliated organizations that provide services to children. The main goal is to identify leverage points for, and barriers to, the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices for children.
AB - The papers in this special issue describe research undertaken by the MacArthur Foundation-funded Research Network on Youth Mental Health. The project is designed to understand the challenges of implementing evidence-based treatments in community-based mental health practices. This Introduction and the following articles describe the impetus and conceptual framework underlying one cluster of the Network's activity-i.e., the Clinic Systems Project (CSP). The CSP studies examined the organizational and service system environments in a large national sample of community mental health and affiliated organizations that provide services to children. The main goal is to identify leverage points for, and barriers to, the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices for children.
KW - Children's mental health
KW - Evidence based practice
KW - Evidence based treatments
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U2 - 10.1007/s10488-007-0160-9
DO - 10.1007/s10488-007-0160-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 18085433
AN - SCOPUS:37649001816
SN - 0894-587X
VL - 35
SP - 66
EP - 72
JO - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
JF - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
IS - 1-2
ER -