Bronx Youth Partnership on Mental Health Disparities

在过去的两年里，AECOM的预防干预研究中心一直是一个领导机构， 由青少年领导的布朗克斯社区联盟，“阿尔伯特的明日领袖”（A. L. O.T.）。它使用CPBR， 确定心理健康差异是解决少数族裔内城青少年问题的最重要因素， 它与48个社区机构联合开发了BxThunder，一种心理健康干预措施。我们 计划在3个社区机构进行BxThunder的随机对照试验：Mosholu-Montefiore 社区中心，野猫学院和公民咨询局。BxThunder有三个部分：第一部分。 青少年是一个屡获殊荣的积极的青年发展计划，改善心理健康和培训青少年 成为同伴教育者;第二部分。毕业生将加入“ALOTMore”，并在 布朗克斯机构教授心理健康和减少耻辱;第三部分。青少年在BxThunder谁需要 精神健康服务将由来自三个社区的临床心理学家和实习医生现场接待他们。 合作伙伴，雷曼学院城市大学，社会工作的Wurzweiler学校，和Ferkauf研究生院 心理学。我们将对BxThunder进行一项意向治疗随机对照试验。我们将招募240名 青少年在每个站点（n=720），并随机接受BxThunder或标准护理。青少年将 在基线和6个月和12个月后进行了访谈。结果测量是积极的心理健康 （青少年弹性量表，RSCA;青少年自我感知概况，SPPA）和 心理症状（青年自我报告，YSR）。在有症状的青少年中，我们将评估 已查明的接受转介服务的青年人数;转介服务的落实人数; 正在接受或已完成服务的人数;以及他们在接受服务后的心理健康结果（症状） 治疗具体目标是检验假设，与对照组青少年相比： (1)BxThunder中的青少年将经历更少的心理健康症状; (2)BxThunder中的青少年将体验到积极心理健康的更大增长; (3)在BxThunder中有心理问题的青少年更有可能成功地转诊接受治疗， 并且更有可能完成治疗; (4)BxThunder中有心理问题的青少年将经历更大的心理减少， 症状; (5)BxCAM研讨会将增加知识，减少参加者的耻辱感， 通过研讨会参加者的测试前和测试后测量的变化来衡量。 亲和健康计划将与新的 约克市卫生和心理卫生局。

For the past two years, AECOM's Preventive Intervention Research Center has been the lead agency for a Bronx community coalition, led by adolescents, "Albert's Leaders of Tomorrow" (A.L.O.T.). It used CPBR to identify mental health disparities as the most important to address among minority inner-city adolescents, and with a Coalition of 48 community agencies, it developed BxThunder, a mental health intervention. We plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial of BxThunder in 3 community agencies: Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center, Wildcat Academy, and Citizen's Advice Bureau. BxThunder has three parts: PART I. TEEN is an award-winning positive youth development program that improves mental health and trains teens to be peer educators; PART II. graduates will join "ALOTMore" and implement a multimedia workshop in Bronx agencies to teach about mental health and reduce stigma; PART III. teens in BxThunder who need mental health services will receive them on site from clinical psychologists and externs from three community partners, Lehman College CUNY, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.We will conduct an intent-to-treat randomized controlled trial of BxThunder. We will recruit 240 teens at each site (n=720 total), and randomize them to receive BxThunder or standard care. Teens will be interviewed at baseline and 6- and 12-months later. Outcome measures are positive mental health (Resiliency Scales for Adolescents, RSCA; The Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents, SPPA) and psychological symptoms (Youth Self Report, YSR). Among symptomatic teens, we will assess the number of identified youth who received a referral for services; the number of those who implemented the referral; the number who are in or have completed services; and their mental health outcomes (symptoms) after treatment. The Specific Aims are to test the hypotheses that, compared to control teens: (1) teens in BxThunder will experience fewer mental health symptoms; (2) teens in BxThunder will experience a greater increase in positive mental health; (3) teens with psychological problems in BxThunder are more likely to have a successful referral for care, and are more likely to complete treatment; (4) teens in BxThunder with psychological problems will experience a larger reduction in psychological symptoms; (5) the BxCAM workshop will increase knowledge and decrease stigma among those who attend, as measured by change in pre-test and post-test measures of workshop attendees. A sustainability project will be designed and implemented by Affinity Health Plan in conjunction with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.