Creating Partnership to Improve Access to Mental Health Services for Latino Youth

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Creating Partnership to Improve Access to Mental
Health Services for Latino Youth

• April 21st 2006
• Carolyn Garcia, PhD, RN
• Kate Hunt, MPH, RN
• Denford Clinical Scholars

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Background

• What we know about Latino adolescent mental
  health isnt
• Dissertation and community input
• Access disparities prevail
• Densford clinical scholar program

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Specific Aims

• To establish university-community partnerships
  addressing Latino adolescent mental health
• To develop, pilot and administer an instrument
  measuring knowledge of existing mental health
  community resources
• To obtain cultural perceptions of mental health
  and preferences for services using focus groups

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Methodology

• Community-based participatory research
• Currently popular, historically effective
• a "collaborative approach to research that
  equitably involves all partners in the research
  process and recognizes the unique strengths that
  each brings.
• CBPR begins with a research topic of importance
  to the community, has the aim of combining
  knowledge with action and achieving social change
  to improve health outcomes and eliminate health
  disparities."
• WK Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars
  Program

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Activities

• Building partnerships
• La Clinica
• Neighborhood House
• La Familia
• HACER
• Medical School-Powell Center
• Centro Campesino (Owatonna)
• Latino Parents/Adolescents
• Churches

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Activities

• Instrument development (summer 2006)
• Community-level assessment
• Knowledge of resources
• Cultural perceptions/beliefs
• Parent/Adolescent versions
• Bilingual
• Pilot in rural and urban settings

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Activities

• Focus groups (winter 2006-7)
• Acquire in-depth knowledge re mental health,
  preferred interventions/education
• Parents/Adolescents
• Data analysis from existing sources (e.g. a qui
  para ti)
• Grant writing

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Challenges

• Community
• Time
• Resources limited
• University
• A to B as quick as possible
• IRB process
• Funding

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Successes

• Engagement
• Meeting around the table
• Energy
• Submitted grants with consistent letters of
  support from community partners
• Excitement

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Densford Clinical Scholars Program

• Aims to improve patient care through creating
  partnerships between advanced practice nurses
  (APNs) and faculty members from the University of
  Minnesota's School of Nursing.
• The partners identify a clinical problem in the
  care setting that requires attention, and then
  develop and implement a clinical intervention for
  improving the situation.
• 20 of Faculty Members time is dedicated to the
  project and paid by the Densford Center.

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Funding Thanks

• Densford Center
• Clinical Scholars program supports Garcia time
  (20)
• Center for Adolescent Nursing
• CDC funded T award supports Garcias
  post-doctoral fellowship
• La Clinica
• Supports Hunt time (20)
• Partnering agencies have supplied many letters of
  support for grants sought!

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Creating Partnership to Improve Access to Mental
Health Services for Latino Youth
April 21st 2006 Carolyn Garcia, PhD, RN Kate
Hunt, MPH, RN Denford Clinical Scholars