Matthew Chinman

Sexual Assault in the Military Is Unacceptable. Here's How to Fix It

Despite some steps taken by the Department of Defense, sexual assault and harassment prevention within the services and at individual installations could be substantially improved. The services could address the problem more systematically and comprehensively.

Restorative Justice Isn't a Panacea, but It Can Promote Better Relationships Among Students

Restorative practices aren't necessarily a cure-all. But if implemented well, they can contribute to an overall solution. Teaching children to treat one another with respect has the potential to make schools safer and to help kids get along better throughout their lives.

What Two New Studies Reveal About Restorative Justice in Middle School and How It Can Be Done Better

There are many nuances to the implementation and impact of restorative practices. This suggests that continued experimentation could allow school districts to realize the benefits of instituting these practices and reduce the cost of doing so.

Evidence-Based Treatments May Be Casualties of War on Drugs

U.S. schools and community organizations face a difficult battle to keep kids safe and drug-free. They need tools to help them choose programs that will work best for youth. The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices is such a tool, but its future is uncertain.

Anti-Drug Education: Time for a New Bumper Sticker

Effective drug prevention in America could start by helping school districts adopt programs that work. These evidence-based programs can teach children to make wise and responsible decisions about drugs, and they won't break the bank.

Making Prevention a Priority

A bill legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes in Vermont has a strong possibility of passing. Lawmakers and communities should focus on putting in place drug prevention programs aimed at young people, considering that their marijuana use is higher in Vermont than the national average.

Rethinking Student Discipline and Zero Tolerance

Restorative practices are an alternative to zero-tolerance school discipline policies. Rather than mandating prescribed punishments for specific misbehaviors, this more tailored approach aims to empower students.

U.S. Needs to Improve Community-Based Drug, Alcohol Prevention

As familiar as Americans are with the problems of youth drug and alcohol abuse, we are not identifying all the potential solutions. While observers criticize overemphasis in U.S. policy on enforcement and scant resources devoted to treatment, the focus on these approaches often ignores a key piece of the puzzle: prevention.

Getting To Outcomes: Improvement of Prevention Capacity Unveiled at a Summit of Maine Officials and Stakeholders

Community-based practitioners can improve their programs using Getting To Outcomes®, a toolkit, training, and onsite-support package which enhances their ability to prevent drug and alcohol use among youth.

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

A new field called implementation science addresses the issue of how to best support providers to take up new, research-proven treatments and implement them well. A RAND study will test how well Boys & Girls Clubs carry out a program proven to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, with and without an intervention called Getting To Outcomes.

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Novel Methods to Assess the Military's Evolving Prevention Capabilities: Development and Pilot Test of the On-Site Installation Evaluation Process

This report describes the development, pilot test, and validity testing of a set of prevention capability metrics to improve the deterrence of sexual assault, sexual harassment, suicide, and domestic violence among military service members.

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Development and Pilot Test of Criteria Defining Best Practices for Organizational Sexual Assault Prevention

This study describes the development of the Prevention Evaluation Framework, an assessment targeting organizational best practices for comprehensive sexual assault prevention across multiple domains.

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Development and Pilot Test of the Competency Assessment for Sexual Assault Prevention Practitioners

The purpose of this study was to develop an assessment tool for sexual assault prevention practitioners regarding knowledge about and job relevancy of the core competencies.

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Getting To Outcomes® Handbook for Strengthening Sexual Assault Prevention Activities in the Military

This web-based Getting To Outcomes handbook and PDF for offline use provide streamlined instructions and resources to help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of military sexual assault prevention activities.

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Getting to Outcomes® Handbook for U.S. Air and Space Force Community Action Planning

Getting To Outcomes helps Air and Space Force Community Action Teams develop a Community Action Plan. The Handbook includes guidance and tools. The Resource Guide provides links and tips. The Workbook contains blank versions of the tools.

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Self-Assessment Guide for University Prevention Programs Focused on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment

This guide provides detailed step-by-step instructions to help civilian universities and colleges assess their own programs to prevent sexual assault and harassment.

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"What We Have Here, Is a Failure to [Replicate]": Ways to Solve a Replication Crisis in Implementation Science

This article reviews what is known about replication of implementation trials, and identifies the gaps and next steps to continue increasing the transparency, openness, and replicability of implementation research.

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Getting To Outcomes®: Guide for Strengthening Sexual Assault Prevention Activities in the Military

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of military sexual assault prevention activities. It includes instructions, blank tools, and examples.

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Countering Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military: Lessons from RAND Research

The authors discuss actions that the Department of Defense (DoD) has taken to reduce sexual harassment and assault in the military, describe the challenges of reducing these behaviors, and offer recommendations to improve prevention and response.

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Getting To Outcomes® Operations Guide for Air National Guard Community Action Teams

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of Air National Guard Community Action Plans. It includes guidance, resources, and examples of completed tools.

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Getting to Outcomes® Operations Guide for U.S. Air Force Community Action Teams

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of U.S. Air Force Community Action Plans.

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Cost Analysis of a Randomized Trial of Getting to Outcomes Implementation Support of CHOICE in Boys and Girls Clubs in Southern California

This study estimates the societal costs of implementing CHOICE, a voluntary after-school alcohol and other drug prevention program for adolescents, in Boys and Girls Clubs across Southern California with and without an implementation support system called Getting To Outcomes.

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Cost Analysis of a Randomized Trial of Getting to Outcomes Implementation Support for a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Offered in Boys and Girls Clubs in Alabama and Georgia

This study estimated the cost of adding Getting To Outcomes implementation support to a teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection prevention evidence-based program called Making Proud Choices in 32 Boys and Girls Clubs in Alabama and Georgia.

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Sustaining an Evidence-Based Program Over Time: Moderators of Sustainability and the Role of the Getting to Outcomes® Implementation Support Intervention

This randomized controlled trial advances the literature by testing the effects of Getting To Outcomes, an after-school evidence-based program for preventing substance use among middle-school students.

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Influence of an Implementation Support Intervention on Barriers and Facilitators to Delivery of a Substance Use Prevention Program

Findings highlight that implementation support, such as Getting to Outcomes, is likely to help low-resourced community-based organizations improve program delivery through a focus on implementation processes.

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A Program for Local Health Departments to Adapt and Implement Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Programs

Local health departments report improved capacities when using the Getting to Outcomes approach.

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An Evidence-Based Co-Occurring Disorder Intervention in VA Homeless Programs: Outcomes from a Hybrid III Trial

An implementation strategy called Getting to Outcomes increased the number of homeless vets that engaged in treatment in a VA program, but the strategy had no significant effects on hospitalization, mental health, or substance abuse outcomes. 

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A Hybrid Type I Trial to Increase Veterans' Access to Insomnia Care: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

A brief behavioral treatment for insomnia can expand treatment for Veterans who currently lack access because of limited treatment availability; poor patient and provider knowledge about treatment options; and barriers such as distance, work schedules, and childcare.

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Testing Implementation Support For Evidence-Based Programs in Community Settings: A Replication Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes

The systematic support provided by Getting to Outcomes can help community organizations implement evidence-based prevention programs with more fidelity.

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A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes' Impact on Sexual Health Outcomes in Community-Based Settings

Getting to Outcomes, an implementation support intervention, can strengthen evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.

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Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

This Getting To Outcomes guide will help with the planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability of community emergency preparedness programs. It includes instructions, completed examples, and blank tools.

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Provision of Peer Specialist Services in VA Patient Aligned Care Teams: Protocol for Testing a Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial

Assessing the impact of outside assistance on the deployment of peer specialists in Veterans Health Administration Patient Aligned Care Teams will provide critical data to administrators and policy makers.

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The Association Between Implementation Strategy Use and the Uptake of Hepatitis C Treatment in a National Sample

Veterans Health Administration sites that used more ERIC-recommended implementation strategies delivered more evidence-based Hepatitis C treatments.

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Using Getting To Outcomes to Facilitate the Use of an Evidence-Based Practice in VA Homeless Program: A Cluster-Randomized Trial of an Implementation Support Strategy

This paper presents an evaluation of an effort to incorporate an evidence-based, dual disorder treatment called Maintaining Independence and Sobriety Through Systems Integration, Outreach, and Networking-Veterans Edition (MISSION-Vet) into case management teams serving Veterans who are homeless.

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Pre-transplant Depression Is Associated with Length of Hospitalization, Discharge Disposition, and Survival After Liver Transplantation

A history of depression is an important marker for poor outcomes following a liver transplant.

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Early Stages of Development of a Peer Specialist Fidelity Measure

This paper describes the initial development of a peer specialist fidelity measure for two content areas: services provided by peer specialists and factors that either support or hamper the performance of those services.

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A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Restorative Practices: An Illustration to Spur High-Quality Research and Evaluation

A Maine-based trial of a Restorative Practices Intervention will assess whether a positive youth development program improves developmental outcomes and stems problem behaviors in middle schoolers, and whether the effects persist in high school.

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Association Between Opioid Use and Readmission Following Liver Transplantation

Liver transplant patients who use prescription opioids before their transplant face a higher risk of hospital readmissions.

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Getting to Outcomes Guide for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

This Getting To Outcomes (GTO) guide is designed to help community organizations plan, evaluate, and improve the quality of their teen pregnancy prevention (TPP) programs.

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Can Implementation Support Help Community-Based Settings Better Deliver Evidence-Based Sexual Health Promotion Programs? A Randomized Trial of Getting To Outcomes®

In typical community-based settings, manuals and training common to structured evidence-based practices may be sufficient to yield low levels of performance and moderate levels of fidelity, but systematic implementation support is needed to achieve high levels of performance and fidelity.

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Promoting Success: A Getting To Outcomes® Guide to Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement for Community Service Organizations

Describes practical steps for conducting continuous quality improvement in community service organizations.

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The Experience of Peer Mentors in an Intervention to Promote Smoking Cessation in Persons with Psychiatric Illness

Peer support is an important component of services for persons with psychiatric illness but the experience of peer mentors is not well understood.

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Use of Concept Mapping to Characterize Relationships Among Implementation Strategies and Assess Their Feasibility and Importance: Results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) Study

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A Cluster Randomized Hybrid Type III Trial Testing an Implementation Support Strategy to Facilitate the Use of an Evidence-Based Practice in VA Homeless Programs

This paper presents a study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an evidence-based, co-occurring disorder treatment called Maintaining Independence and Sobriety Through Systems Integration, Outreach, and Networking--Veterans Edition (MISSION-Vet) in HUD-VASH using an implementation strategy called Getting To Outcomes (GTO).

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Getting to Outcomes®: Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work

This book chapter describes Getting to Outcomes (GTO), an approach to capacity-building that supports empowerment evaluation, and discusses GTO's relationship to empowerment evaluation and evaluation capacity building.

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Implementation of Consumer Providers Into Mental Health Intensive Case Management Teams

In mental health care, consumer providers (CPs) are individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) who draw upon their lived experiences while providing services to others with SMI. Implementation of CPs has proven to be challenging in a variety of settings.

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A Novel Test of the GTO Implementation Support Intervention in Low Resource Settings: Year 1 Findings and Challenges

Boys & Girls Club sites that used the Getting to Outcomes implementation support tool had greater capacity to run the Making Proud Choices program, but youth sexual health outcomes were no better at sites that used the tool versus those that did not.

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A Cluster Randomized Trial of Adding Peer Specialists to Intensive Case Management Teams in the Veterans Health Administration

Use of peer specialists (PSs)--individuals with serious mental illness who use their experiences to help others with serious mental illness--is increasing.

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Evaluating the Impact of Getting to Outcomes-Underage Drinking on Prevention Capacity and Alcohol Merchant Attitudes and Selling Behaviors

Assessed whether providing prevention coalitions with Getting To Outcomes-Underage Drinking (GTO-UD) helped improve implementation of two common EAP strategies, responsible beverage service training (RBS) and compliance checks.

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Process Evaluation of the New Mexico Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Competitive Development Grant

This report describes the evaluation of the New Mexico Home Visiting Competitive Development Grant, which aimed to pilot test the use of implementation supports to improve the development and implementation of home visiting in high-need communities.

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Development of Telehealth Dialogues for Monitoring Suicidal Patients with Schizophrenia: Consumer Feedback

Suicide is a health concern among individuals with schizophrenia. A telehealth system for monitoring suicidal patients with schizophrenia was developed using the Health Buddy©.

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Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Using a novel method of selecting implementation strategies for use within specific contexts, this study contributes to our understanding of implementation science and practice by sharpening conceptual distinctions among a comprehensive collection of implementation strategies.

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Getting To Outcomes with Developmental Assets (AGTO): An E-Learning Module

A multimedia presentation that provides information on how to strengthen planning, implementation, and evaluation efforts, whether for a youth-serving program or a community-based coalition or initiative.

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Peer Support Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses: Assessing the Evidence

Peer support services have demonstrated many notable outcomes. However, studies that better differentiate the contributions of the peer role and are conducted with greater specificity, consistency, and rigor would strengthen the evidence.

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The Carrot and the Stick: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influences on Responsible Merchant Practices to Reduce Underage Drinking

Merchants who hold more pro-enforcement attitudes engage in more responsible beverage service training practices, which in turn is associated with greater enforcement of underage drinking. These attitudes are potential targets of prevention efforts.

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Using Patient-Facing Kiosks to Support Quality Improvement at Mental Health Clinics

Patients used kiosks in mental health clinics to provide routine data on clinical status and treatments. The data were used to improve quality of care.

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Enhancing Quality Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS): A Novel Application of Translational Research Methods

Overviews the study Enhancing Quality Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS), which tests how well a community-based setting conducts an EBP, Making Proud Choices, that aims to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

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Intervening with Practitioners to Improve the Quality of Prevention: One-Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Assets-Getting to Outcomes

This article reports interim findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating Assets-Getting To Outcomes (AGTO)

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An Intervention to Improve Program Implementation: Findings from a Two -Year Cluster Randomized Trial of Assets-Getting to Outcomes

Studies have shown that communities have not always been able to implement evidence-based prevention programs with quality and achieve outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.

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National Survey on Implementation of Peer Specialists in the VA: Implications for Training and Facilitation

This study explored challenges, facilitators, and progress of Peer Specialist implementation from a stakeholder group involved in their management.

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Lessons Learned from a Quality Improvement Intervention with Homeless Veteran Services

Homeless veterans are a vulnerable population, with high mortality and morbidity rates. Evidence-based practices for homelessness have been challenging to implement.

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Employing Continuous Quality Improvement in Community-Based Substance Abuse Programs

This article aims to describe continuous quality improvement (CQI) for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs in a community-based organization setting.

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Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention

Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.

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Building Capacity for Outcomes Measurement in Human Service Organizations: The Getting to Outcomes Method

Published in: Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services, 2nd Edition: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods in the Era of Health Reform / Magnabosco, Jennifer L. and Manderscheid, Ronald W., Eds. (Washington, DC : NASW Press, Dec. 2011), Chapter 6, p. 73-88

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Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs and Communities

Offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building effective community initiatives and youth programs, including 10-step process that poses different accountability questions to help document outcomes for funders.

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Routine Outcomes Monitoring to Support Improving Care for Schizophrenia: Report from the VA Mental Health QUERI

This study conducted in the VA mental health system identified consensus areas, validated instruments, and assessment strategies that can be used for monitoring outcomes and improving quality of care for schizophrenia in routine practice.

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The Premises Is the Premise: Understanding Off- and On-Premises Alcohol Sales Outlets to Improve Environmental Alcohol Prevention Strategies

Outlets that sell alcohol on the premises (e.g., bars or restaurants) do more to prevent alcohol sales to minors than outlets such as convenience or liquor stores.

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Parental Knowledge and Substance Use Among African American Adolescents: Influence of Gender and Grade Level

Analyses by gender and grade level showed that for boys and middle school youth, parental knowledge was a protective factor for increases in substance use across 1 year.

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Using Organizational Change Strategies to Guide Peer Support Technician Implementation in the Veterans Administration

Peer support techniciansindividuals recovering from mental health problemsand clinicians at the VA have developed consensus about key elements of the peer support technician role.

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Reducing Inequities Among Children with Asthma in the Island of Puerto Rico: Experiences of a Community-Based, Trans-Sectoral Effort

This project has implemented successful interventions to improve the quality of life and reduce disparities for children with asthma in Puerto Rico.

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Strengthening Prevention Performance Using Technology: A Formative Evaluation of Interactive Getting to Outcomes®

This article reports on a formative evaluation of efforts to build community-based prevention capacity in two states (Tennessee and Missouri) using an Internet-based system known as interactive Getting To Outcomes® (iGTO).

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Technical Assistance as a Prevention Capacity-Building Tool: A Demonstration Using the Getting to Outcomes Framework

Demands on community-based prevention programs for performance accountability and positive outcomes are ever increasing in the face of constrained resources. Relatively little is known about how technical assistance (TA) should be structured to benefit community-based organizations and to lead to better outcomes. In this study, data from multiple sources were used to describe an effective TA model designed to improve the capacity of community-based organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention programming.

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Community Prevention Handbook on Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment: Evidence-Based Practices

Substance abuse is, and has always been, an indisputable fact of life. People -- especially young people -- abuse various legal and illegal substances for any number of reasons: to intensify feelings, to achieve deeper consciousness, to escape reality, to self-medicate.

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Promoting Evidence-Based Practices: The Adoption of a Prevention Support System in Community Settings

Prevention support systems (PSSs) are designed to help communities implement evidence-based practices (EBPs).

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Mental Health Consumer Providers: A Guide for Clinical Staff

Consumer providers are individuals with serious mental illness who provide recovery-oriented services and support to others. This guide serves as an easy-to-use reference to assist in hiring and integrating CPs into provider teams.

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Early Experiences of Employing Consumer-Providers in the VA

In 2005, the VA created consumer-providers (CPs)--individuals with experience of serious mental illness who support others with similar conditions. Data from the groups suggest that hiring and employing CPs within VA has been feasible, beneficial, and acceptable to most members of clinical teams.

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EQUIP: Implementing Chronic Care Principles and Applying Formative Evaluation Methods to Improve Care for Schizophrenia: QUERI Series

This paper presents a case study that demonstrates the evolution of a project entitled Enhancing QUality-of-care In Psychosis (EQUIP). The next iteration of the project, EQUIP-2, was further informed by implementation science and the use of QUERI tools.

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The Getting to Outcomes Demonstration and Evaluation: an Illustration of the Prevention Support System

Communities are increasingly being required by state and federal funders to achieve outcomes and be accountable, yet are often not provided the guidance or the tools needed to successfully meet this challenge.

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Getting To Outcomes™: 10 Steps for Achieving Results-Based Accountability

This summary of the Getting To Outcomes (GTO) process provides step-by-step guidance to those in need of a concise, overview-style approach to GTO as they plan, implement, and evaluation substance abuse prevention programs.

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Using the ''Getting to Outcomes™'' Approach to Help Communities Prevent Underage Drinking

This research brief is a summary of a longer guide that provides key accountability questions, worksheets, tools, and examples to help communities plan, implement, and evaluate their efforts to reduce and prevent underage drinking.

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Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress During 2004 and 2005

Evaluates the progress of Arkansas' seven health related programs funded by the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

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Preventing Underage Drinking: Using Getting To Outcomes™ with the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework to Achieve Results

Alcohol is the primary contributor to adolescent deaths in the United States. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide is designed to take communities through the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies to prevent underage drinking.

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Differences in HIV Care Between Patients with and Without Severe Mental Illness

This study explored how HIV care differs for infected persons with and without severe mental illness.

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The Feasibility of Computerized Patient Self-Assessment at Mental Health Clinics

ACASI was easy to use and enhanced communication. Systems like this can be a valuable part of quality improvement projects.

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Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program in Urban After-School Settings on the Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use

Positive youth development (PYD) emphasizes a strengths-based approach to the promotion of positive outcomes for adolescents.

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Getting To Outcomes™: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention

This research brief summarizes research to create Getting To Outcomes (GTO), a science-based model and support tools to help local groups develop or improve substance-use-prevention programs.

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Peer Support Among Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: A Review of the Evidence

This study reviewed the potential effectiveness of forms of peer support among persons with severe mental illness: (1) naturally occurring mutual support groups, (2) consumer-run services, and (3) the use of consumers as providers within clinical and rehabilitative settings.

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Embedding Improvements, Lived Experience, and Social Justice in Evaluation Practice

The purpose of this chapter is to explore answers to questions that are not standard components of evaluation processes.

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Mobilizing Communities for Positive Youth Development: Lessons Learned from Neighborhood Groups and Community Coalitions

Describes the processes and activities of a community coalition, the Onondaga County Prevention Partners for Youth Development in Syracuse, NY.

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Patterns of HIV Care for Patients with Serious Mental Illness

Individuals with serious mental illness are at higher risk for HIV than are members of the general population.

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Peer Support Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness: A Report from the Field

Peer support is still early in its development as a form of mental health service provision and needs further exploration and evaluation.

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Toward the Implementation of Mental Health Consumer Provider Services

To guide the dissemination of consumer provider services, literature on their effectiveness was reviewed. Interviews, focus groups, and a brief survey of 110 administrators, providers, and patients were conducted at three large VA clinics in Southern Cali

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Obteniendo Resultados 2004: Promoción de Responsabilidad a Través de Métodos y Herramientas de Planeación, Implementación y Evaluación

Incorporating traditional evaluation, empowerment evaluation, results-based accountability, and continuous quality improvement, this manual's ten-step process enhances practitioners' substance abuse prevention skills.

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Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Program Advancement in 2005

The Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, a referendum passed by Arkansans in the Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. The act also created the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission (ATSC) to monitor and evaluate the performance o...

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Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Program Advancement in 2005

The Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, a referendum passed by Arkansans in the Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs. The act also created the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission (ATSC) to monitor and evaluate the performance o...

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Characteristics of Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Who Use Emergency Services

Emergency services are both a safety net and a locus for acute treatment.

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Developing a Community Science Research Agenda for Building Community Capacity for Effective Preventive Interventions

Research has shown that prevention programming can improve community health when implemented well.

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Recovery Guides: An Emerging Model of Community-Based Care for Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities

In this chapter, the authors argue that continued use of inherited models of case management limits the progress that otherwise could be made.

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Service Access and Service System Development in a Children's Behavioral Health System of Care

Results discussed for implications for assessing systems of care by establishment of system-level empirical benchmarks of service system development.

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Use of a Consumer-Led Intervention to Improve Provider Competencies

A feasible, consumer-led intervention improves provider competencies in domains that are necessary for the provision of high-quality care.

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Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress from Program Inception to 2004

Evaluates the progress and implementation of the Arkansas tobacco settlement program.

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Getting To Outcomes™ 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation

Incorporating traditional evaluation, empowerment evaluation, results-based accountability, and continuous quality improvement, this manual's ten-step process enhances practitioners' substance abuse prevention skills.

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Computer-assisted Self-Assessment in Persons with Severe Mental Illness

ACASI data collection is reliable among people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and could be a valuable tool to improve their care.

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Getting to Outcomes: A Community-Based Participatory Approach to Preventive Interventions

Describes a prevention process and corresponding technical assistance package for substance abuse prevention programs.

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A Network-Based System to Improve Care for Schizophrenia: The Medical Informatics Network Tool (MINT)

The Medical Informatics Network Tool (MINT) is a software system that supports the management of care for chronic illness.

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Supported Socialization for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: Lessons from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Role of participants' expectations and perceptions in designing and evaluating psychosocial interventions for people with psychiatric disabilities.

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Trauma and Adaptation in Severe Mental Illness: The Role of Self-Reported Abuse and Exposure to Community Violence

Both past and present trauma complicates the adaptation of people with SMI.

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PIE à La Mode: Mainstreaming Evaluation and Accountability in Each Program in Every County of a Statewide School Readiness Initiative

This chapter describes a program accountability system developed to support evaluation of all school programs in each county across South Carolina

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An Action Model of Socially Disruptive Behaviors Committed by Persons with Severe Mental Illness: The Role of Self-Reported Childhood Abuse and Suspiciousness-Hostility

The authors' results encourage further exploration of the role of childhood maltreatment in the adaptation of people with severe mental illness.

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An Instrument to Assess Competencies of Providers Treating Severe Mental Illness

One approach to improving the quality of rare for severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia is through the improvement of provider competencies.

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The Connecticut Mental Health Center Patient Profile Project: Application of a Service Needs Index

Describes a quality assurance effort aimed at defining the characteristics of the patient population of the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

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Service Providers' Views of Psychiatric Mutual Support Groups

Despite evidence that mutual support groups can be beneficial for those with mental illnesses, professionals are reluctant to utilize this resource.

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Impact of Panic Attacks on Rehabilitation and Quality of Life Among Persons with Severe Psychotic Disorders

This study of persons with severe psychotic disorders found that persons with a history of panic attacks are more likely to have higher rates of comorbid psychological disorders than those not having panic attacks.

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Chronicity Reconsidered: Improving Person-Environment Fit Through a Consumer-Run Service

Previous research indicates that recurrent acute hospitalizations and an inability to establish or maintain tenure in the community may be due to a disconnection from community-based services and supports, social isolation, and demoralization.

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Homelessness, Mental Illness and Citizenship

The concept of citizenship-a connection to the rights, responsibilities, roles, and resources that society offers-offers a useful framework for approaching the goal of strengthening homeless people's ties to their community.

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Developing the Case Management Relationship with Seriously Mentally Ill Homeless Individuals

Starting in the late 1970s, a number of factors contributed to what has been called a new homelessness in America

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It Was Just Realizing... That Life Isn't One Big Horror: A Qualitative Study of Supported Socialization

This report describes the qualitative component of a large-scale study of supported socialization.

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Simply to Be Let in: Inclusion as a Basis for Recovery

Implications for future research and policy are suggested based on these data.

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Using the Getting-To-Outcomes (GTO) Model in a Statewide Prevention Initiative

This article briefly describes the GTO model and the accountability questions.

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Getting to Outcomes: A Results-Based Approach to Accountability

Getting to outcomes: methods and tools for planning, evaluation, and accountability (GTO) was developed as a guidebook to help practitioners plan, implement, and evaluate their programs to achieve results.

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How Are We Doing? A Statewide Survey of Community Adjustment Among People with Serious Mental Illness Receiving Intensive Outpatient Services

This study examined factors that affect how well intensive users of mental health services function in community settings. Four factors were tied to better functioning: having a prescription, medication adherence, being perceived as less threatening, and having frequent social interactions.

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Comparing Consumer and Nonconsumer Provided Case Management Services for Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness

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Client-case Manager Racial Matching in a Program for Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness

This study evaluated the effect of client-case manager racial matching in a case management program for homeless people with serious mental illness and found virtually no evidence of a relationship between client-case manager racial matching on either outcomes or service use.

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On the Road to Collaborative Treatment Planning: Consumer and Provider Perspectives

This study assessed attitudes toward collaborative mental health treatment planning. Results showed that providers tend to place responsibility for difficulty in implementing collaborative planning on consumers and tend to underestimate consumer interest in this process.