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. 2023 Nov;59(8):1588-1600.
doi: 10.1007/s10597-023-01147-5. Epub 2023 Jun 8.

Generating Actionable Evidence for School-Based Mental Health Service Delivery: Public-Academic Partnership Based Evaluations

Christina D Kang-Yi  1 , Aparajita Kuriyan  2 , Grace Kinkler  2 , Aelesia E Pisciella  3 , Tamra Williams  4 , Courtney Benjamin Wolk  2   5
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Generating Actionable Evidence for School-Based Mental Health Service Delivery: Public-Academic Partnership Based Evaluations

Christina D Kang-Yi et al. Community Ment Health J. 2023 Nov.

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.

Keywords: Actionable Evidence; Program Evaluation; Public-Academic Partnership; School and Mental Health Outcomes; School-Based Mental Health Service Delivery.

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Conflict of interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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Impact of Philadelphia’s partnership-based program evaluations on school-based mental health care delivery funded through Medicaid
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Public-academic partnership based evaluation process
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