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Generating Actionable Evidence for School-Based Mental Health Service Delivery: Public-Academic Partnership Based Evaluations.
- Source :
- Community Mental Health Journal; Nov2023, Vol. 59 Issue 8, p1588-1600, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Public-academic partnership-based program evaluations can generate actionable evidence for policymaking, program design and implementation in improving school-based mental health service delivery. The University of Pennsylvania Center for Mental Health and public behavioral health care agencies in Philadelphia in the United States have evaluated Philadelphia's school mental health programs reimbursable through Medicaid billing since 2008. The variety of evaluations include (1) examining acute mental health service use of children receiving school-based mental health care and Medicaid expenditure, (2) examining children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors to measure school mental health providers' performance, and (3) examining effects of different types of school mental health programs on children's behavioral health functioning, school outcomes, and other out-of-school service use. This paper reports key findings of these evaluations, discusses how programs have been refined based on evaluation results, and shares lessons learned for successful public-academic partnership-based evaluations to promote use of actionable evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SCHOOL mental health services
PUBLIC relations
EVALUATION of human services programs
ACADEMIC medical centers
MATHEMATICAL models
BEHAVIORAL sciences
MEDICAL care
EVIDENCE-based medicine
MEDICAL care costs
HUMAN services programs
HEALTH insurance reimbursement
THEORY
RESEARCH funding
POLICY sciences
MEDICAID
HEALTH promotion
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00103853
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Community Mental Health Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173149837
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-023-01147-5