EVIDENCEBASED PRACTICES:

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• EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES
• LEARNING FROM THE NUMBERS

A. Kathryn Power, M.Ed., Director Center for
Mental Health Services
August 12, 2006 New Orleans, LA
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Implementation Resource Kits www.mentalhealth.sam
hsa.gov

• Family Psychoeducation
• Illness Management and Recovery
• Assertive Community Treatment
• Supported Employment
• Co-Occurring Disorders Integrated Dual Diagnosis
  Treatment

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Implementation Resource Kits Under Development

• Childrens Services
• Supported Education
• Supported Housing
• Older Adult Depression
• Consumer-Operated Services
• Prevention Approaches
• Jail Diversion

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Innovations Through New CD-ROM Format

• Takes advantage of new technology in electronic
  presentation
• Uses adult learning guidelines to optimize user
  engagement
• Crafts products to specific target audiences
• Creates opportunities for user self-direction in
  navigation
• Brings material to life through multimedia
  options (e.g., embedded video clips, animated
  exercises, narration)

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• K-I-T
• Knowledge
• Informing
• Transformation

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Selected National Outcome Measures

• Decreased mental illness symptomatology/improved
  functioning1
• Increased/retained employment (adults) return
  to/retention in school (children)1
• Increased stability in family and living
  conditions
• Increased access to services (number of persons
  served by age, gender, race, and ethnicity)2
• Increased social supports/social connectedness3

1Developmental. 2Required by the Office of
Management and Budget Performance Assessment
Rating Tool (PART) review. 3For Access to
Recovery, social support of recovery is
measured by client participation in voluntary
recovery or self-help groups as well as
interaction.
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• If we measure how well a practice works
• and we measure how well we work at putting it
  into practice
• and we learn from these data
• we can change lives.

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