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Building Bridges to Evidence-based Practice: The MacArthur Foundation Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (Child STEPs)

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The papers in this special issue describe research undertaken by the MacArthur Foundation-funded Research Network on Youth Mental Health. The project is designed to understand the challenges of implementing evidence-based treatments in community-based mental health practices. This Introduction and the following articles describe the impetus and conceptual framework underlying one cluster of the Network’s activity—i.e., the Clinic Systems Project (CSP). The CSP studies examined the organizational and service system environments in a large national sample of community mental health and affiliated organizations that provide services to children. The main goal is to identify leverage points for, and barriers to, the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices for children.

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  1. The Research Network on Youth Mental Health is a collaborative team funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Network Members at the time this work was performed included: John R. Weisz, Ph.D. (Network Director), Bruce Chorpita, Ph.D., Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., Charles Glisson, Ph.D., Evelyn Polk Green, M.A., Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., Peter S. Jensen, M.D., Kelly Kelleher, M.D., John Landsverk, Ph.D., Stephen Mayberg, Ph.D., Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D., Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., Sonja K. Schoenwald, Ph.D.

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Preparation of this manuscript was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and grant DA018107 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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  1. Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 67 President Street, Ste MC 406, P.O. Box 250861, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA

    Sonja K. Schoenwald

  2. Columbus Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Kelly Kelleher

  3. Judge Baker Children’s Center, Boston, USA

    John R. Weisz

  4. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    John R. Weisz

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Schoenwald, S.K., Kelleher, K., Weisz, J.R. et al. Building Bridges to Evidence-based Practice: The MacArthur Foundation Child System and Treatment Enhancement Projects (Child STEPs). Adm Policy Ment Health 35, 66–72 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-007-0160-9

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