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Mental Health Systems Transformation: Recovery-Based Approaches to Participatory Planning and Evaluation
This presentation will define promising practices to engage people with lived experience and other un- and under-served populations in the planning and design of community mental health services. These promising practices were identified through a statewide research project to measure the effectiveness of community planning processes conducted throughout California’s public mental health system. Through a participatory evaluation framework, people with lived experience served as research partners from evaluation planning, qualitative and quantitative data collection, data analysis and interpretation, through the identification of promising practices.
This presentation will also describe effective outreach and recruitment strategies, facilitation techniques, and training and technical assistance to engage people with lived experience and other underrepresented groups in participatory planning and evaluation, using a case study from one California county. This case study used a participatory evaluation process to engage a committee of people with lived experience in an iterative process to promote an accessible, welcoming, engaging, culturally relevant, and integrated service delivery environment.
Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practiceSocial and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Define promising practices to engage people with lived experience and other un- and under-served populations to plan and design community mental health services.
Describe effective outreach and recruitment strategies, facilitation techniques, and training and technical assistance to engage people with 'lived experience' and other underrepresented groups in participatory planning and evaluation.
Keyword(s): Mental Health System
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have 17 years experience in the behavioral health field. I have been the Project Director and Principal Investigator of federally funded programs for homeless, co-occurring, and specialty court programs. Clinically, my experience is based in the public sector with a focus on people with serious mental illness, substance use, forensic involvement, and/or an intellectual disability. Among my specific interests are the development of program models that support deinstitutionalization and decriminalization of behavioral health problems.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.