Projects

REACHing optimal mental health via culturally specific adaptation to KEEP®

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This project uses data harmonization techniques to aggregate information across multiple KEEP® studies to evaluate whether culturally specific adaptations made to KEEP® reduce mental health disparities among youth with child welfare system involvement and improves care quality for Native, Hispanic/Latino, Black/African American, and sexual and gender minority youth.

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Intervening in the Lives of Youth with Foster Care Involvement

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There are alarming disparities in the prevalence of mental health disorders and suicide between youth with a history of foster care involvement (FCI) and their peers. The few preventive interventions specifically designed for youth with FCI have generally examined effects on less specific, immediate “problem” behaviors rather than specific mental health disorders. By leveraging data from seven randomized control trials, the current project could positively impact the lives of these youth by enabling us to understand if and for how long preventative interventions implemented early in life may have positive impacts on the mental health of youth with FCI, as well as the mechanisms through which the interventions may operate, and for which subpopulations the interventions might be most efficacious.

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KEEP®

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Numerous studies have shown that many of today’s foster children have complex and serious behavioral and mental health problems that put them at risk for negative long-term outcomes. The enormous potential of these young people and the tough challenges faced by foster and kinship parents inspired the development of the KEEP® and KEEP SAFE™ models.

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Scale It Up

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Despite substantial declines in HIV transmission and increases in lifespan among those living with HIV over the past decade, the full potential of existing interventions have not been realized among youth, in large part because efficacious interventions for this age group have not been brought to scale. Scale It Up has assembled research teams who are

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SIC Coaching Strategy

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The SIC Coaching project aims to define the organizational activities that are needed to sustain the adoption of evidence-based programs, and test the impact of an empirically derived strategy to support the integration of implementation fidelity and intervention fidelity.

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