Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, NJ, USA.
Center for Mental Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, PA, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2023 Nov;59(8):1588-1600. doi: 10.1007/s10597-023-01147-5. Epub 2023 Jun 8.
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.
基于公立-学术合作的项目评估可为改善学校心理健康服务提供决策、项目设计和实施方面的实用证据。自 2008 年以来，美国宾夕法尼亚大学心理健康中心和费城的公立行为健康护理机构一直在评估可通过医疗补助账单报销的费城学校心理健康项目。各种评估包括：（1）调查接受学校心理健康服务和医疗补助支出的儿童的急性心理健康服务使用情况；（2）调查儿童的外在和内在行为，以衡量学校心理健康提供者的绩效；（3）调查不同类型的学校心理健康项目对儿童行为健康功能、学校成绩和其他校外服务使用的影响。本文报告了这些评估的主要发现，讨论了如何根据评估结果改进项目，并分享了成功的公立-学术合作评估的经验教训，以促进实用证据的使用。
