Project
CalMHSA: Evaluation of California's Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Initiatives
Jun 13, 2023
Supporting California Counties to Meet Statewide Reporting Requirements
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In an effort to improve mental health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) offers prevention and early intervention programs to residents. To comply with regulations established by California's Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, LACDMH must report on changes in program participants' risk and protective factors that occur as a result of program engagement. LACDMH asked the RAND Corporation for assistance in developing tools to help generate such measures and reports.
In this document, RAND researchers describe the process they used and the products they created to assist LACDMH. The process included developing a conceptual framework to guide the selection of appropriate measures of program outcomes and their associated risk and protective factors; assessing and selecting existing measures that meet certain criteria; designing and formatting questionnaires for data collection for three target populations; and creating the Data Entry, Scoring, and Report Tool. The researchers also review the strengths and limitations of their approach and suggest next steps.
Chapter One
Introduction and Background
Chapter Two
Overview of Approach
Chapter Three
Conceptual Framework
Chapter Four
Assessing and Selecting Measures
Chapter Five
Survey Design
Chapter Six
Data Entry, Scoring, and Report Tool
Chapter Seven
Discussion
Appendix A
MHSOAC Reporting Regulations
Appendix B
LACDMH Prevention and Early Intervention Program Matrix
Appendix C
Conceptual Framework
Appendix D
Outcome Indicators, Measures, and Risk and Protective Factors
Appendix E
Youth Program Entry Survey
Appendix F
Youth Follow Up Survey
Appendix G
Adult Program Entry Survey
Appendix H
Adult Follow Up Survey
Appendix I
Parent Program Entry Survey
Appendix J
Parent Follow Up Survey
Appendix K
Illustrations from the Data Entry, Scoring, and Report Tool
This work was sponsored by the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) and conducted by RAND Health.
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