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The Voice of Youth is Vital in Defining the Problem and Finding Solutions

Photovoice provides a platform for members of communities to share their narratives and articulate the assets and needs of their neighborhoods. This method can enable youth to promote critical conversations and move their neighbors toward collective identification of problems and ...
Margarita Alegría
,
Kiara Alvarez
,
and Amanda Nemoyer
The Voice of Youth is Vital in Defining the Problem and Finding Solutions
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Can a Coordinated Knowledge System Improve the Use of Research Evidence in School-Based Mental Health Settings?

By refining and integrating multiple theories, Chorpita has designed a model that focuses on supervisor and supervisee interactions, to help them more readily access, understand, and apply research evidence in ...
Foundation Staff
Can a Coordinated Knowledge System Improve the Use of Research Evidence in School-Based Mental Health Settings?
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How Can Youth Perspectives Inform Interventions to Reduce Inequality?

Community-based mixed-methods research can be especially valuable in identifying and understanding strategies to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.
Foundation Staff
How Can Youth Perspectives Inform Interventions to Reduce Inequality?
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Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health

Instead of thinking of research and practice as a point A and point B journey, we might instead think of traveling around a neighborhood. The best neighborhoods have the infrastructure ...
Bruce Chorpita
Knowledge Neighborhoods: Building the Infrastructure for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health
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Can Narratives Have a Greater Impact on Clinicians’ Prescribing Behaviors than Evidence-based Guidelines?

David Rubin and his team are examining whether physicians who are exposed to stories about doctors who adhere to research-informed prescribing guidelines adopt similar behaviors. The hope is that a “...
Foundation Staff
Can Narratives Have a Greater Impact on Clinicians’ Prescribing Behaviors than Evidence-based Guidelines?
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Use of Research Evidence: Social Services Portfolio

In this report, Susan Maciolek synthesizes findings from Foundation-supported studies on the use of research evidence in domains including child welfare, child mental health, and justice. Maciolek, a former William T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow, discusses the perspectives of policymakers...
Susan Maciolek
Use of Research Evidence: Social Services Portfolio
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Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S.

Margarita Alegría and colleagues investigate disparities in mental health and mental health services for minority youth. Taking a developmental perspective, the authors explore four areas that may give rise to inequalities in mental health outcomes, highlight specific protective factors ...
Margarita Alegría
,
Jennifer Greif Green
,
Katie A. McLaughlin
,
and Stephen Loder
Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Services in the U.S.
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Partnership and the Politics of Care: Advocates’ Role in Passing and Implementing California’s Law to Extend Foster Care

“This report traces the history of [California’s Fostering Connections to Success Act] from when it was first introduced in the California State Assembly, through its passage and signing, and ...
Mark Courtney
 and Jennifer Mosley
Partnership and the Politics of Care: Advocates’ Role in Passing and Implementing California’s Law to Extend Foster Care

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