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The State Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY)

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State mental health authorities have a leadership role in implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs), but few instruments are available to assess the impact of this role. We describe the development of the State Mental Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY), a behaviorally anchored instrument designed to assess state-level facilitating conditions associated with successful implementation of EBPs in community mental health centers. The SHAY assesses the SMHA role in seven domains: Planning, Financing, Training, Leadership, Policies and Regulations, Quality Improvement, and Stakeholders. Preliminary evidence from the National Evidence-Based Practices Project partially supports the construct and criterion-oriented validity of this instrument for rating state-level activities supporting or blocking the implementation of evidence-based practices.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mental Health Policy Research. The author Howard H. Goldman is the Director of the MacArthur Foundation Network on Mental Health Policy Research.

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  1. Bureau of Evidence-Based Services and Implementation Science, New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY, USA

    Molly T. Finnerty

  2. Mental Health Services and Policy Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit #100, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Molly T. Finnerty

  3. Office of Mental Health and Training, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Charles A. Rapp

  4. Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Gary R. Bond

  5. Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Lebanon, NH, USA

    David W. Lynde

  6. 4117 Circletree Loop, Austin, TX, 78731, USA

    Vijay Ganju

  7. University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Howard H. Goldman

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The Shay can be accessed at: http://www.socwel.ku.edu/mentalhealth/.

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Finnerty, M.T., Rapp, C.A., Bond, G.R. et al. The State Health Authority Yardstick (SHAY). Community Ment Health J 45, 228–236 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-009-9181-z

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