Patient Navigators for Children's Community Mental Health Services in High Poverty Urban Communities

项目概要 这笔赠款的目的是研究非裔美国人的心理健康导航模型 和高度贫困城市社区的拉丁裔儿童重点关注减少关键父母 护理的态度障碍。减少儿童心理上持续存在的种族和民族差异 健康是国家的优先事项，患者导航是一种非常有前途的方法，但很少见 用于儿童心理健康服务。该研究将检验两种类型的有效性 导航员：具有丰富社区知识的辅助专业人员 (PP) 和案例 经过正式培训的经理（CM）。该研究将探讨具体机制 导航器对儿童心理健康的有效性，并比较两种类型的导航器 对所提议的机制进行严格的测试。由此获得的知识 应用对于减少差距和雇用最适合的劳动力可能很重要 社区精神卫生系统导航。两个社区委员会，其中一个专注于 确定对支持机构导航员很重要的因素，另一个重点是 对州和联邦政策的影响，将每年举行一次会议，目标是确定关键 研究结果有可能影响地方、州和国家儿童心理优先事项 健康。

Project Summary The purpose of this grant is to study a model of mental health navigation for African American and Latinx children in high poverty urban communities focused on reducing key parental attitudinal barriers to care. Reducing persistent racial and ethnic disparities in children’s mental health is a national priority and patient navigation is a highly promising approach that is rarely used in children’s mental health services. The study will examine the effectiveness of two types of navigators: paraprofessionals (PP) who have strong community knowledge, and case managers (CM) who are formally trained. The study will examine specific mechanisms of navigator effectiveness in children’s mental health and compare the two types of navigators to provide a rigorous test of the proposed mechanisms. The knowledge gained from this application may be important to reducing disparities and employing the workforce best suited to navigation in the community mental health system. Two community boards, one focused on identifying factors important to supporting navigators at the agencies, and the other focused on implications for state and federal policy, will meet annually with the goal of identifying key findings with the potential to influence local, state, and national priorities for children’s mental health.