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Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: A Workshop

Completed

On June 16-17, the Forum held a public workshop on Harvesting the Scientific Investment in Prevention Science to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health. The workshop featured presentations on and discussion of facilitators and barriers to broad implementation of preventive interventions, and the roles of scientific norms, implementation strategies, and practices in care quality and health outcomes for youth at the national, state, and local levels.

Description

An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct an interactive public workshop featuring presentations and discussion of novel design strategies for increasing implementation of evidence-based approaches to support children's cognitive, affective, and behavioral health. The workshop will focus on:
- examining principles, practices, and processes that are robust and common across evidence-based interventions (EBIs)
- highlighting key opportunities and barriers to the broad diffusion of EBIs within and across sectors, including schools, primary care, juvenile justice, and child welfare. Perspectives will include those of end users of EBIs.
- examining the roles of scientific norms, intervention implementation strategies, and practices in care quality and outcomes at the national, state, and local levels
- discussing changes that could be made in financing models, scientific models, and implementation models in order to broadly implement EBIs
- exploring data farming (technological) and analytic strategies that allow iterative quality improvement that could facilitate data-driven adaptation of EBIs
- learning from federal, state, and local administrators about the approaches they have adopted to increase the quality of science-informed prevention in their jurisdictions
- discussing the interfaces and boundary challenges between existing diffusion strategies for EBIs and potential alternative models
- exploring approaches across diverse populations of children and families
The committee will identify specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and other participants, and moderate the discussions. A brief individually-authored workshop summary, in addition to a full-length workshop summary, of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Sponsors

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Board of Pediatrics

American Orthopsychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

Autism Speaks

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Department of Justice

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

National Institutes of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice

Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Society of Pediatric Psychology

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The Annie E. Casey Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation

Staff

Suzanne Le Menestrel

Lead

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