PROMOTING URBAN CHILD MENTAL HEALTH & SERVICE USE

这是NIMH独立科学家奖的申请。它将使申请人能够制定一个研究职业规划，其重点是研究影响低收入非洲裔美国儿童心理健康的因素，以及他们参与心理健康预防和干预方案。另一个目标是开发和测试参与干预对儿童心理健康重点项目的初始和持续参与的影响。这项研究计划建立在两项联邦资助的研究和城市儿童心理健康领域的广泛研究经验的基础上。已经制定了咨询和参与先进科学教育的计划，以实现以下目标：1)通过使用现有数据和与城市父母持续合作的过程，使申请人沉浸在具体说明城市儿童及其照顾者参与心理健康方案的观点中；2)继续发展对先进的基础和干预研究设计和方法的复杂理解；3)提高我的能力，将最复杂的统计方法应用于从低收入、非裔美国儿童和家庭收集的数据；4)准备在城市和社区环境中开展以儿童心理健康为重点的研究。在申请人职业生涯的这个阶段，独立科学家奖将支持社会工作调查员在以下方面发挥领导作用：1)推进经验支持的实践，特别是在儿童心理健康领域；2)指导社会工作专业的学生发展研究技能，尤其关注满足城市儿童和家庭的需求；3)支持初级社会工作教师开展早期儿童心理健康服务研究工作；(4)提供研究数据，代表心理健康领域极为脆弱、往往代表性严重不足的儿童及其家庭群体的观点；5)倡导多学科的研究工作，重点是发展对儿童心理健康和服务使用的多重影响的生态学基础理解。

This is a request for an NIMH Independent Scientist Award. It will enable the applicant to develop a research career plan which focuses on examining factors that influence the mental health of low-income African American children as well as their involvement in mental health prevention and intervention programs. An additional aim is to develop and test the impact of engagement interventions on both initial and ongoing involvement in child mental health focused programs. This program of research builds upon two federally funded studies and extensive research experience in the area of urban child mental health. Plans have been developed for consultation and participation in advanced scientific education to achieve the following objective: 1) immersing the applicant in specifying the perspectives of urban children and their caregivers in relation to involvement in mental health programs through the use of existing data and a process of ongoing collaboration with urban parents; 2) continuing to develop a sophisticated understanding of advanced basic and intervention research designs and methods; 3) advancing my abilities to bring the most sophisticated statistical methods to data already gathered from low income, African American children and families and; 4) preparing myself to conduct child mental health focused studies within urban, community-based settings. An Independent Scientist Award at this stage of applicants career will support a social work investigator in providing leadership in: 1) advancing empirically supported practice specifically focused in the area of child mental health; 2) mentoring pre and post-doctoral social work students in the development of research skills, particularly focused on meeting the needs of urban children and families; 3) supporting junior social work faculty members as they begin early child mental health services research efforts; 4) providing research data that represents the perspective of a highly vulnerable, often significantly under-represented population of children and their families to the field of mental health and; 5) advocating for multi-disciplinary research efforts that concentrate on the development of an ecologically grounded understanding of the multiple influences on child mental health and service use.