How to Use this Guide
This Resource Guide is designed for:
- Families and Youth
- Practitioners
- Administrators of state and local service systems and agencies
For each of these three user groups, you will find specific information and links to other resources about:
- Selecting interventions for your child, your agency, your community, or your state; and
- Strategies for success in building organizational and system cultures that support the implementation of evidence-based and promising practices to promote continuous quality improvement.
The remainder of the Home section provides information about navigating the Resource Guide, defines basic terms used throughout the Resource Guide, and describes the larger system context in which children’s mental health services are delivered.
Navigating the Resource Guide
This Resource Guide is organized according to the following outline. Click on any topic below to go to that section of this Resource Guide. You can also visit other sections by clicking on the section icons to the left or the top of the screen. The Glossary of Key Terms also provides definitions of terms used throughout the Resource Guide. You may visit the Glossary of Key Terms by clicking on highlighted words throughout the Resource Guide.
Resource Guide Outline
- Home
- How to Use this Guide
- Background and Need
- What is Evidence?
- What is an Evidence-Based Practice?
- Cultural Competence and Evidence-Based Practices
- What is an Evidence-Based Culture?
- Larger Systems Context of Children’s Mental Health
- What are the Specific Evidence-Based Practices?
- Families and Youth
- Process of Selecting Interventions
- Family and Youth Roles in Selecting Interventions
- Selecting your Provider
- Assessment Experience for Youth and Their Families
- Questions to Ask Providers
- Learning about Interventions
- Making it Work: Strategies for Success
- Practitioners
- Process of Selecting Interventions
- Partnering with Youth and Families
- Assessing Youth and Family Needs
- Matching EBPs to the Needs of Youth and Families
- Making it Work: Strategies for Success
- Administrators
- Process of Planning for and Selecting Interventions
- Assessing Population Needs
- Assessing the Environment
- Assessing Cultural Competence
- Assessing Organizational Readiness
- Assessing Financial Readiness
- Criteria for Decision-Making
- Making it Work: Strategies for Success
- Glossary of Key Terms
