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

总体：项目摘要/摘要 援助中心--各国改善影响儿童的系统改造的加速器战略， 青年和家庭-建立在纽约和纽约之间长达15年的合作开发的基础设施之上 大学医学院(思想中心)和纽约州心理健康办公室，创造 全国唯一的国家儿童政策传播与实施(D&I)研究实验室 侧重于为患有严重精神疾病的青年提供与政策相关、以证据为基础的服务 健康障碍(SMHD)。ASSITE将开发工具来改善对儿童心理健康(MH)的理解 研究州政策制定者的证据，并测试两个实用的加速器战略，以改善D&I 国家系统中的循证做法。以Shortell的改变层次框架和Leeman et为指导 AL的“超越执行战略”，ASSITE的目标和具体目标支持国家研究所 精神卫生(NIMH)战略研究目标3.3和4.4。该中心的具体目标是：目标 1.在多个层面推进与政策相关的有效性、传播和执行研究 国家系统(政策制定者、机构、提供者、青年/家庭)，包括不同群体的有意义的参与 中心利益攸关方，与SMHD及其家人一起改善由公共资助的青年服务；目标2。 确定国家政策传播目标并测试一套简短而实用的加速器战略(诊断 和参与度)，以改善临床实践以及青年和家庭结果；目标3.促进 培养对国家卫生政策和服务研究感兴趣的职业生涯早期和中期调查人员 培训股的综合培训机会、结构化的指导方案、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.确定和开发严谨、实用和新颖的方法 用于国家政策研究，供医疗计划、付款人和州政府通过MC的项目设计和分析使用 服务股(PDASU)和数据协调股(DCU)；以及AIM 5.与中心利益攸关方和 通过传播和利益相关者参与股(CSEU)在全国范围内传播中心的调查结果， 它将侧重于利益攸关方的参与和整合到研究项目中，以及 通过中心网站、通讯、政策，在全国范围内传播中心开发的研究产品 简报、网络研讨会、社交媒体渠道，并通过我们的国家顾问委员会，其广泛的全国 成员资格和覆盖范围可以加快信息的快速传播，并提高工作效率 传播中心研究。该中心集成了跨学科实施和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，七个学术机构 学科，两个国家系统，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.