Accelerator Strategies for States to Improve System Transformations Affecting Children, Youth and Families

总体：项目概要/摘要 ASSIST中心-促进各国改善影响儿童的制度变革的加速战略， 青年和家庭-建立在一个基础设施，通过15年的合作开发的纽约 大学医学院（IDEAS中心）和纽约州精神卫生办公室，创建 该国唯一的国家儿童政策传播与实施（D&I）研究实验室 重点是改善对患有严重精神疾病的青少年的政策相关的循证服务的吸收， 健康障碍（SMHD）。ASSIST将开发工具，以改善儿童心理健康（MH）的吸收 国家政策制定者的研究证据，并测试两个实用的加速器战略，以改善D&I， 国家系统中的循证实践。在Shortell的变革层次框架和Leeman等人的指导下， al的“超越实施战略”，ASSIST的目标和具体目标支持国家研究所， 心理健康（NIMH）战略研究目标3.3和4.4。该中心的具体目标是： 1.推进政策相关的有效性，传播，并在多个层面的实施研究 国家系统（决策者、机构、提供者、青年/家庭），包括各种 中心利益相关者，以改善公共资助的服务，为青少年与SMHD及其家庭;目标2。 确定国家政策传播目标，并测试一套简短实用的加速战略（诊断 和参与），以改善临床实践以及青少年和家庭结果;目标3。推进 发展对国家卫生政策和服务研究感兴趣的早期和中期职业调查人员， 培训单位的全面培训机会，结构化的辅导计划，试点研究资金， 以及获得丰富的州和国家级数据集和方法支持（通过方法核心 [MC])支持他们的职业发展;目标4。识别和开发严谨、实用和新颖的方法 通过MC的项目设计和分析，供卫生计划、付款人和各州使用的州政策研究 服务股和数据协调股;以及目标5。让中心的利益相关者参与进来， 通过交流和利益相关者参与单位（CSEU）在全国范围内传播中心的调查结果， 这将侧重于参与和利益相关者的投入纳入研究项目， 通过中心的网站、通讯、政策，在全国传播中心开发的研究产品 简报，网络研讨会，社交媒体渠道，并通过我们的国家咨询委员会，其广泛的国家 会员资格和覆盖范围可以加速信息的快速传播，并提高工作效率， 通信中心研究。该中心整合了跨学科的实施和MH服务 医疗质量框架内的研究专业知识，涉及六个研究机构，七个学术 学科，两个国家系统，一个国家传播网络，并利用现有的NIMH资助的T32和 D&I培训计划

OVERALL: Project Summary/Abstract The ASSIST Center—Accelerator Strategies for States to Improve System Transformations Affecting Children, Youth and Families—builds on an infrastructure developed through a 15-year collaboration between New York University School of Medicine (The IDEAS Center) and the New York State Office of Mental Health, creating the only national children's policy dissemination and implementation (D&I) research laboratory in the country focused on improving the uptake of policy-relevant, evidence-based services for youth with serious mental health disorders (SMHD). ASSIST will develop tools to improve the uptake of child mental health (MH) research evidence by state policymakers, and test two practical accelerator strategies to improve D&I of evidence-based practices in state systems. Guided by Shortell's Levels of Change Framework and Leeman et al's “beyond implementation strategies,” ASSIST's objectives and specific aims support the National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Strategic Research Objectives 3.3 and 4.4. The specific aims of the Center are to: Aim 1. Advance policy-relevant effectiveness, dissemination, and implementation research across multiple levels of state systems (policymakers, agencies, providers, youth/families), including meaningful engagement of diverse Center stakeholders, to improve publicly-funded services for youth with SMHD and their families; Aim 2. Identify state policy dissemination targets and test a set of brief and practical accelerator strategies (diagnostic and engagement) to improve clinical practice and youth and family outcomes; Aim 3. Advance the development of early and mid-career investigators interested in state MH policy and services research through the Training Unit's comprehensive training opportunities, structured mentoring program, pilot research funding, and access to a rich set of state and national-level datasets and methodological support (via the Methods Core [MC]) to support their career development; Aim 4. Identify and develop rigorous, practical, and novel methods for state policy research for use by health plans, payors, and states via the MC's Project Design and Analysis Services Unit (PDASU) and Data Coordinating Unit (DCU); and Aim 5. Engage Center stakeholders and disseminate Center findings nationally, via the Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Unit (CSEU), which will focus on the engagement and integration of stakeholder input into research projects, and the national dissemination of Center-developed research products, via the Center's website, newsletter, policy briefs, webinars, social media channels, and via our National Advisory Board, whose broad national membership and reach can accelerate the rapid dissemination of information and create efficiencies of effort in communicating Center research. This Center integrates transdisciplinary implementation and MH services research expertise within a healthcare quality framework involving six research institutions, seven academic disciplines, two state systems, a national dissemination network, and leverages existing NIMH-funded T32 and D&I training programs.