Click on the links below to browse other Web sites with information related to mental health and evidence-based practice.

The U.S. government's official web portal

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-Based Practice Centers

American Psychological Association

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice

Centre for Evidence-Based Mental Health

Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior

Center for Health Evidence

Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University

Institute of Medicine Report

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), CMHS and National Institute of Mental Health

National Implementation Research Network

National Institutes of Health Use this link to look up specific information about diagnoses, medications, etc.

National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health - Georgetown University

President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Promising Practices Network (PPN)

Psychiatric Services

Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health - University of South Florida

Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health - Portland State University

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

SAMHSA EBP Implementation Resource Kit Webpage

SAMHSA Model Programs - National Registry of Effective Programs

The Evaluation Center at HSRI

University of Colorado Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence

Papers and Presentations

Evidence-Based Practices: State Needs and Priorities

• The Need for an Evidence-Based Culture: Lessons Learned from Evidence-Based Practice Implementation This report focuses on lessons learned for implementation efforts in the mental health field; from experience, and with the perspective of adult and children's services. These lessons learned have been culled from workshops, conferences, site visits, and technical assistance initiatives sponsored by the Center for Mental Health Quality and Accountability (CMHQA) at the NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc.
  
  
• The Role of Leadership in Mental Health System Transformation This report discusses the functions and qualities of effective leadership, and provides ideas on how to motivate change within an organization to ecnourage agencies to adopt the use of evidence-based practices as outlined in the President's New Freedom Commission Report on Mental Health.
  
  
• Summary of States' Research/Evaluation Priorities based on interviews with State Mental Health Agencies in May 2006 . Throughout May 2006, NRI staff conducted phone interviews with state research directors to solicit their ideas and input for research/evaluation priorities. In addition, E-mails were sent to all members of NASMHPD’s Divisions including: Adult; Children, Youth & Families; Forensic; Older Persons; Legal; Medical Directors; and the National Association of Consumer/Survivor Mental Health Administrators (NAC/SMHA). Responses were received from 34 States, a total of 47 responses. This document contains a summary of state mental health agency research and/or evaluation priorities.



• Transformation of the Louisiana Mental Health System: Next Steps This is the final of a serie of three reports. This report reviews priorities identified during the last site visit (from August 25-26, 2005), and presents recommendations for next steps to implementing mental health system transformation in Louisiana.
  
  
• Measures of Organizational Readiness Measurement instruments were reviewed that could be used to assess the readiness of organizations to implement evidence-based practices.
  
  
• Report of Ohio Site Visit: Coordinating Centers of Excellence Report of a site visit to follow-up on survey results by gathering more detailed information about Ohio's Coordinating Centers of Excellence so that other states can learn from their experience.
  
  
• Results of a Survey of State Directors of Adult and Child Mental Health Services on Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices This report presents results of a 50-state survey conducted by the NRI Center for Mental Health Quality and Accountability to: 1) obtain detailed descriptive information on state mental health agencies' policies, strategies, and mechanisms for implementing evidence-based practices in mental health service systems for adults and children; 2)identify models of successful EBP implementation; 3) identify challenges, barriers, and facilitators that influence statewide implementation; and 4) identify needs related to current and future implementation.
  
  
• Quality and Accountability: An Agenda for Public Mental Health Systems A paper developed for the Institute of Medicine's Meeting on "Crossing the Quality Chasm: An Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders," held September 13-14, 2004 in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Planning and Budgeting Evidence-Based Practices for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders This document is intended to provide technical assistance to members of the National Association of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) on planning for and budgeting evidence-based programs (EBPs) for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
  
  
• Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in State Mental Health Systems: Implications for Research and Effectiveness Studies Provides an overview of the status of implementation of EBPs in state mental health agency systems, the concerns and challenges arising with such implementation, priorities identified by commissioners to move the quality agenda forward, and the implications for research and effectiveness studies to help them in this effort.
  
  
• Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Project: National Review of Effective Implementation Strategies and Challenges Report of the meeting: Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Project: National Review of Effective Implementation Strategies and Challenges held April 7-8, 2003 in Concord, New Hampshire.
  
  
• NASMHPD/NRI Survey of State Mental Health Agency Commissioners/Directors on State Needs Related to Evidence-Based Practices Implementation Preliminary draft results of a survey of 49 states, the District of Columbia, and 2 territories.
  
  

Older Adults

• Results of a Survey on Priorities for a National Initiative on Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices for Older Persons A presentation that depicts the results of a survey conducted by Dartmouth for the NASMHPD older Persons Division and EBP Workgroup.
  
  

Adults

• Principles from Adult Learning Theory, Evidence-Based Teaching, and Visual Marketing: What are the Implications for Toolkit Development? This literature review is not intended to be a comprehensive review of adult learning or marketing, but rather to cull together the existing reviews to ensure that IRK developmentis consistent with theory and empirical findings. The result is the identification of common priciples and tested components in these fields that can guide the frame, focus, and content of future toolkits for adults.
  
  
• Training and Evaluation Grantees' Process and Fidelity Measurement Tools and Methodology Process and fidelity measurements used by SAMHSA's CMHS Training and Evaluation Grantees. This table provides information in areas including the State, evidence-based practice, instrument, frequency administered, method, and measures.
  
  
• Training and Evaluation Grantees' Outcome Measurement Tools and Methodology Table of outcome measurements used by SAMHSA's CMHS Training and Evaluation Grantees - 2005. This table provides information in areas including the state, evidence-based practice, instrument, frequency administered, method, measures, and quality insurance.
• Supported Employment Fidelity Scale

Children

• Consensus Panel Report: The Development of the Children's Mental Health Implementation Resource Kit: Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders Final meeting report of the Children's Consensus Panel Meeting for the Development of the new children's toolkit. Meeting held April 24-25, 2006 in Arlington, Virginia.
  
  
• Matrix of Children's Evidence-Based Interventions The NRI Center for Mental Health Quality and Accountability synthesized key literature reviews which summarize the effectiveness of prevention, intervention, and/or treatment programs that can be applied to child and adolescent mental health services.
  
  
• State Activities in Implementing Evidence-Based Programs for Children, Youth, and Families Paper presented at the 18th Annual Research Conference, "A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base," held March 6-9, 2005 in Tampa, Florida.
  
  
• Report of the Conference: Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health: Building Capacities for Implementation and Research Official meeting report of the conference: Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health: Building Capacities for Implementation and Research, held in August of 2003.