Implementing Evidence Supported Interventions through a Network of Missouri's Private Medicaid Practitioners
Principal Investigator: Curtis McMillen, PhD, PI
Kristen Hawley, PhD, Co-PI
Funder: Missouri Foundation for Health
Timeframe: 07/09-07/12
Affiliation: Center for Mental Health Services Research (CMHSR)
Project Contact: Erin Leaver(314) 935-9796
Project Update as of 07/21/2009:
Stage:
Description:
Effective, family-friendly treatments for youth mental health problems languish on the shelf unused while Missouri’s young people receive substandard and ineffective mental health treatment. Often this is because training in these interventions is complex, limited, out-of-state, expensive and requires continuing supports. The Missouri Therapy Network – a new practice network of Missouri Medicaid mental health providers – proposes to use a package of web technologies to disseminate highly effective mental health treatments to private Medicaid mental health practitioners across the Missouri Foundation for Health’s (MFH) service area. The web package will include previously developed web training, a treatment manual, live webinars, on-line discussion groups, emailed treatment tips, and a structured training buddy program. It is designed to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of an evidence-supported treatment throughout the foundation’s service area and to achieve the following goals.
1. One-hundred fifty private community clinicians from across Missouri will be trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (TFCBT) using a package of web technologies.
2. Trained clinicians will demonstrate an ability to deliver the intervention accurately.
3. Trained clinicians will deliver TFCBT to 1200 traumatized children and their families.
4. Posttrauma mental health symptoms of the children treated by these clinicians will be reduced by 30% as measured by the trauma symptom checklist for children.
We request $300,000 over three years for a $299,999 project that will cost-effectively train clinicians in this treatment, will reach significant numbers of children and youth in the short term, and has the potential to serve exponentially greater numbers of children and youth in the long term.