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

项目摘要 该基金的目的是研究非裔美国人的心理健康导航模型 和拉丁裔儿童在高度贫困的城市社区集中减少关键的父母 对护理的态度障碍。减少儿童心理健康方面持续存在的种族和族裔差异 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， 用于儿童心理健康服务。本研究将探讨两种类型的有效性 导航员：具有丰富社区知识的准专业人员（PP）， 管理者（CM）是经过正式培训的。该研究将探讨具体的机制， 导航仪在儿童心理健康方面的有效性，并比较两种类型的导航仪， 对所提出的机制进行严格测试。从中获得的知识 应用程序可能是重要的，以减少差距和雇用劳动力最适合 社区精神卫生系统的导航。两个社区委员会，一个专注于 确定重要的因素，以支持导航员在机构，和其他侧重于 对州和联邦政策的影响，将每年举行一次会议，目标是确定关键的 有可能影响地方，州和国家儿童心理健康优先事项的调查结果 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.