Center for Collaborative Inner City Mental health Services Research (CCCR)

本申请寻求资金，以建立一个发展中心（P20），即西奈山医学院的协同城市儿童心理健康服务研究中心（CCCR），与以下机构合作：1)纽约州心理健康办公室；2)代表市中心青年、家庭和社区的两个家庭和社区倡导委员会（布朗克斯社区合作委员会和家庭倡导研究委员会（FAR Board））； 3)纽约城市大学亨特学院社会工作学院，代表纽约市每年培养最多有色人种硕士水平心理健康提供者的教育项目。CCCR的目的是组织多学科研究人员开展儿童心理健康服务研究，旨在改善弱势青年的整体健康和心理健康，这些青年在城市环境中经常面临着情感和身体健康的重叠威胁。CCCR特别侧重于开发和测试基于现有经验发现的新型临床实践和服务提供模式，以及与研究人员、从业人员、青年和居住在市中心社区的家庭之间的密切合作相关的结果。

This application seeks funding to establish a Developing Center (P20), referred to as the Center for Collaborative Inner-City Child Mental Health Services Research (CCCR) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in collaboration with: 1) the New York State Office of Mental Health; 2) two family and community advocacy boards representing inner-city youth, families and communities (Bronx Community Collaborative Board and the Family Advocates Research Board (FAR Board) and 3) Hunter College School of Social Work at the City University of New York, representing the educational program preparing the largest number of master's level mental health providers of color annually in New York City. The aim of the CCCR is to organize multi-disciplinary researchers on the conduct of child mental health services research meant to improve the overall health and mental health of vulnerable youth, too often struggling with overlapping threats to emotional and physical wellness within urban contexts. The CCCR is specifically focused on the development and testing of novel clinical practices and service delivery models that are informed by existing empirical findings, as well as the outcomes associated with intensive collaboration between researchers, practitioners, youth and families living in inner-city neighborhoods. Support from a P20 will also focus CCCR faculty on the mentoring of new investigators of color, particularly those with direct clinical practice experience in the conduct of urban services research with a particular emphasis on helping the next generation of researchers integrate methods that are sufficiently resilient to navigate obstacles within "real world" urban communities and mental health practice settings and that integrate parents, youth, and mental health providers, perspectives. Two research studies are proposed. The first examines the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary impact of a multi-level service for adolescents with serious disruptive behavioral difficulties and school failure. The second pilot examines the concept of mental health literacy and missed opportunities to engagement in mental health services among Latino adult caregivers.