A5065542948- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Community Health and Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Disaster Response and Management
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Public Health Policies and Education
University of Southern California
2025
University of California, Los Angeles
2010-2024
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
2017-2022
Harbor–UCLA Medical Center
2014-2022
The Lundquist Institute
2014-2022
UCLA Medical Center
2015-2022
RAND Corporation
2011-2021
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
2014-2021
Neurobehavioral Systems
2008-2021
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
2017-2021
Depression contributes to disability and there are ethnic/racial disparities in access outcomes of care. Quality improvement (QI) programs for depression primary care improve relative usual care, but health, social other community-based service sectors also support clients under-resourced communities. Little is known about effects on client strategies implement QI across diverse sectors.To compare the effectiveness Community Engagement Planning (CEP) Resources Services (RS) clients' mental...
Quality improvement (QI) for depression in primary care can reduce disparities outcomes. We describe how community-partnered participatory research was used to design Community Partners Care, a randomized trial of community engagement activate multiple-agency network versus support individual agencies implement QI underserved communities.
Depression collaborative care implementation using community engagement and planning (CEP) across programs improves 6-month client outcomes in minority communities, compared with technical assistance to individual (resources for services [RS]). However, 12-month are unknown.To compare effects of CEP RS on mental health-related quality life (MHRQL) use among depressed clients at 12 months.Matched health (n = 93) 2 communities randomly assigned receive or RS. (ClinicalTrials.gov:...
We used community-partnered participatory research (CPPR) to measure collective efficacy and its role as a precursor of community engagement improve depression care in the African American South Los Angeles.We collected survey data from participants at arts events sponsored by CPPR workgroup. Both exploratory (photography exhibit; n = 747) confirmatory (spoken word presentations; 104) structural equation models were developed examine how knowledge attitudes toward influenced engagement.In...
Little is known about the perceived causes of stress and what strategies African American men use to promote resiliency. Participatory research approaches are recommended as an approach engage minority communities. A key goal participatory shift locus control community partners.
To understand potential for multi-sector partnerships among community-based organizations and publicly funded health systems to implement improvement strategies that advance equity.Key stakeholder interviewing during HNI planning early implementation elicit perceptions of innovations required achieve system transformation equity.In 2014, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Board Supervisors approved Health Neighborhood Initiative (HNI) aims to: 1) improve coordination services behavioral clients...
Objective: Community engagement and planning (CEP) could improve dissemination of depression care quality improvement in underresourced communities, but whether its effects on provider training participation differ from those standard technical assistance, or resources for services (RS), is unknown. This study compared program- staff-level among programs enrolled CEP, which trained networks health social-community agencies jointly, RS, provided support to individual programs. Methods:...
Objectives. To compare the effectiveness of a (CEP) versus technical assistance approach (Resources for Services, or RS) to disseminate depression care low-income ethnic minority women. Methods. We conducted secondary analyses intervention effects largely low-income, women subsample (n = 595; 45.1% Latino and 45.4% African American) in matched, clustered, randomized control trial 2 low-resource communities Los Angeles, California, between 2010 2012. Outcomes assessed included mental health,...
Community Partners in Care, a community-partnered, cluster-randomized trial with depressed clients from 93 Los Angeles health and community programs, examined the added value of coalition approach (Community Engagement Planning [CEP]) versus individual program technical assistance (Resources for Services [RS]) implementing depression quality improvement underserved communities. CEP was more effective than RS improving mental health-related life, reducing behavioral hospitalizations, shifting...
Purpose of Review: We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. define as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize members integral the intervention, and/or deliver services in settings. examine literature seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global health, promotion/prevention. adapt social-ecological model for promotion provide a framework understanding...
The inclusion of community partners in participatory leadership roles around statistical design issues like sampling and randomization has raised concerns about scientific integrity. This article presents a case study community-partnered, research (CPPR) cluster-randomized, comparative effectiveness trial to examine implications for validity relevance. Using administrative data, we describe CPPR-based implementation process agency/program sampling, recruitment, depression interventions. We...
Objective: This study examined the effects of a depression care quality improvement (QI) intervention implemented by using Community Engagement and Planning (CEP), which supports collaboration across health community-based agencies, or Resources for Services (RS), provides technical assistance, on training participation service delivery primarily unlicensed, racially ethnically diverse case managers in two low-income communities Los Angeles. Methods: The was cluster-randomized trial with...