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Presented at the 18th Annual Research Conference

Challenges in Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments (EBT) in a State System of Care

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Session Number: 21 Room: Salon J

Presentation Type: symposium

Chair: Martha Morrison Dore Discussant: Judith Meyers

Synopsis: Five years ago Connecticut's Department of Children and Families, which provides mental health, juvenile corrections, and child welfare services to children and families, moved to implement evidence-based, family-focused children's mental health services statewide as part of the local systems of care. Three nationally-recognized EBTs as well as one promising practice model developed locally at the Yale Child Study Center were selected for implementation. In this symposium, those involved in this effort will examine the processes involved in implementing, developing, and adapting evidence-based treatments for children within a state system of care.

Date: Monday, March 7, 2005

Session Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Moving from 'Promising Practice' to Evidence-Based Treatment in the Real World

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Presenting: Joseph Woolston; Jean Adnopoz

All Authors for this paper: Joseph Woolston; Jean Adnopoz

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: The Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service, (IICAPS) was developed as a manualized, structured model of intervention for children and adolescents suffering from severe psychiatric disorders and their families. Not long after its implementation at the alpha site it was selected for replication in 14 additional sites across the state by the public child mental health system. This presentation will describe the efforts of the program developers to establish the evidence base for IICAPS as a promising practice while simultaneously promoting its replication in the field and without the benefit of testing in a controlled setting.

Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments (EBTs) in a State System of Care: A State-level Perspective

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Presenting: Michael Schultz

All Authors for this paper: Michael Schultz

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: As part of its state-wide children's mental health system of care initiative entitled "KidCare," the State of Connecticut's Department of Children and Families sought to expand its community-level mental health services for children and families by implementing evidence-based, family-focused treatment models state-wide. Using Simpson's program change model for transferring research to practice as a template, this presentation will examine the process whereby DCF identified and adopted three family and community-based EBTs and one locally-developed promising practice into the state's system of care.

The Role of Contextual and Organizational Factors in State-Side Dissemination of Multi-Systemic Theraphy (MST)

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Presenting: Janet Williams

All Authors for this paper: Janet Williams

Presentation Type: element of symposium

Synopsis: Researchers have begun to examine the contextual factors and variables (organizational and extra-organizational) that influence the transportability of evidence-based treatment (EBTs) models from research to "real world" settings. In this presentation, Dr. Janet Williams who, as director of the Connecticut Center for Effective Practice, has been closely involved in the EBT implementation process in that state, explores the state-wide dissemination of one EBT, Multisystemic Therapy, and identifies those organizational and contextual factors contributing to its successful implementation as well as those that acted as obstacles to implementation.