Examining a collaborative strategy for evidence-based children's mental health pr

描述（由申请人提供）：文化提供者网络是明尼苏达大学教职员工和多元文化社区儿童心理健康服务提供者之间的合作伙伴关系，旨在1)提高社区对儿童MH循证实践（EBP）的理解；2)增加科学界对社区定义的证据的理解；3)在文化多样化的社区内采用EBP或调整EBP；4)扩大证据基础，纳入更多以社区为基础的、与文化相关的战略；5)建立一种机制，使研究人员和服务于多元文化社区的提供者能够识别和响应多元社区的实践和研究需求。具体而言，我们的目标是：1)制定可衡量的战略，以创建一个有效的合作过程；2)为科学界和社区提供者创造和评估机会，以增进对彼此对有效性的定义、证据标准、文化适当性标准和认识方式的相互理解；3)确定文化特定的心理健康实践，并设计一个与文化相关的过程，以建立其有效性。4)确定已建立的EBP，这些EBP可以在不修改的情况下采用，或适用于文化多样化的社区，并设计与文化相关的研究策略来记录有效性；5)制定文化上适当的自我评估策略，以确定成功的关键机制，这些机制是实现健康合作（目标1）和实现预期结果（目标2-4）的基础。为了实现目标1和目标2，并为目标3至目标5的工作奠定基础，文化提供者网络将参与“真实对话”，这是一个促进的过程，旨在深入探讨参与者对文化、种族和民族背景下关键问题的看法。为了更好地理解对科学界来说什么是重要的，对社区提供者来说什么是重要的，以及这些优先事项如何嵌入到文化中，将进行谈判，以制定与文化相关的评估计划，以衡量选定的社区、文化相关的战略和适合文化多样化社区的选定EBP的有效性。文化提供者网络将与一位在多元文化社区工作经验丰富的评价顾问合作，设计并进行自我评价，以确定成功合作和实现目标的机制。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Cultural Providers Network, a partnership among University of Minnesota faculty/staff and providers of children's mental health services in culturally diverse communities, aims to 1) increase community understanding of evidence-based practice (EBP) in children's MH; 2) increase the scientific community's understanding of community-defined evidence, 3) adopting EBP within, or adapting EBP for, culturally diverse communities; 4) expanding the evidence base to include more community-based, culturally relevant strategies; and 5) creating a mechanism for researchers and providers of services to culturally diverse communities to identify and respond to the practice and research needs of diverse communities. Specifically, we aim to 1) develop measurable strategies to create an effective collaborative process, 2) create and evaluate opportunities for the scientific community and community providers to increase mutual understanding of each other's definitions of effectiveness, standards of evidence, criteria for cultural appropriateness, and ways of knowing, 3) identify culturally-specific mental health practices and design a culturally relevant process to establish their effectiveness, 4) identify established EBP that could be adopted without modification or adapted for culturally diverse communities and design a culturally relevant research strategy to document effectiveness, and 5) develop a culturally appropriate self- assessment strategy to identify critical mechanisms of success underlying both the attainment of a healthy collaboration (aim 1) and the achievement of desired outcomes (aims 2-4). In order to achieve aims 1 and 2 and to form a basis for the work of aims 3 through 5, the Cultural Providers Network will engage in "authentic dialogues," a facilitated process aimed at exploring deeply the views of participants about critical issues in the context of culture, race and ethnicity. Out of increased understanding of what is important to the scientific community and what is important to the community providers, and how these priorities are embedded in culture, negotiations will be undertaken to develop culturally relevant evaluation plans to measure effectiveness of selected community-based, culturally relevant strategies and selected EBP adapted for culturally diverse communities. The Cultural Providers Network will, in collaboration with an evaluation consultant experienced in working in culturally diverse communities, design and carryout a self-assessment to identify mechanisms of successful collaboration and attainment of aims.