142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Mental Health Systems Transformation: Recovery-Based Approaches to Participatory Planning and Evaluation

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Roberta Chambers, PsyD , Resource Development Associates, Oakland, CA
Kevin Wu, MPH , Resource Development Associates, Oakland, CA
Amalia Freedman , Resource Development Associates, Oakland, CA
Passed in 2004, the California Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) provides increased funding, personnel, and other resources to support the expansion and transformation of the state’s mental health system.  The MHSA is guided by the following principles: 1) Wellness, Recovery, and Resiliency, 2) Client and Family Driven, 3) Community Collaboration, 4) Cultural Competence, and 5) Integrated Service Delivery.  Participatory planning and evaluation provides an approach that brings these principles into practice by building the capacity for stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs.  

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 practice
Social 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

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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.