Presenters:

Eric Bruns, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine

Kimberly Arnold, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Center for Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Larissa Gaias, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

This workshop will focus on how to apply implementation science to increase effectiveness of youth and family mental health services and to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service access and outcomes. Presenters will review implementation determinants at multiple levels and will provide strategies for targeting each of these levels. Examples of levels to be reviewed include: 1) clinicians, care coordinators, and peer support workers charged with implementing mental health interventions and strategies (individual level); 2) organizational-level strategies, including leadership enhancement strategies (inner setting); 3) district/state policy and funding context (outer setting); and 4) the design of mental health interventions (the innovation level). The team will go on to describe a process for adapting implementation strategies to include an explicit focus on equity, including concrete examples from the school mental health arena of how implementation strategies can be paired with evidence based practices in youth mental health to increase equity. The overarching goal will be to provide an overview of actionable strategies for ensuring implementation success; improving the social, emotional, and behavioral wellness of youth and their families; and addressing equity issues in youth mental health service delivery.

Workshop Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FNcdTSQfaW7XNlN4Mdz1akTKRR3T3wF1/view?usp=sharing