Perspectives on Financing Strategies for Evidence-Based Treatment Implementation in Youth Mental Health Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based treatments (EBTs) are critical to effectively address mental health problems among children and adolescents, but costly for mental health service agencies to implement and sustain. Financing strategies help agencies overcome cost-related barriers by obtaining financial resources to support EBT implementation and/or sustainment.

Aims

We sought to (i) understand how youth mental health system decision-makers involved with EBT implementation and sustainment view key features (e.g., relevance, feasibility) that inform financing strategy selection and (ii) compare service agency, funding agency, and intermediary representative perspectives.

Method

Two surveys were disseminated to 48 representatives across U.S. youth mental health service agencies,

SUBMITTER: North MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10947519 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature