TEAMS R34 #1 After-Action Reviews in Child Welfare Services

Description

This project proposes to improve successful mental health service linkage in Child Welfare Services (CWS) by adapting and testing the After Action Review (AAR) team effectiveness intervention to augment the Child Family Team (CFT) services intervention. Despite being both required and a collaborative approach to service planning, CFT meetings are implemented with questionable fidelity and consistency, rarely including children and families as intended. By inclusion of child and family voice, the AAR-enhanced CFT should lead to increased fidelity to the CFT intervention and greater levels of parental satisfaction with the service and shared decision-making, thus resulting in enhanced follow-through with Action Plans and linkage to mental health care for children.

Conditions

Mental Health Issue, Children, Adult

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Study overview

This project proposes to improve successful mental health service linkage in Child Welfare Services (CWS) by adapting and testing the After Action Review (AAR) team effectiveness intervention to augment the Child Family Team (CFT) services intervention. Despite being both required and a collaborative approach to service planning, CFT meetings are implemented with questionable fidelity and consistency, rarely including children and families as intended. By inclusion of child and family voice, the AAR-enhanced CFT should lead to increased fidelity to the CFT intervention and greater levels of parental satisfaction with the service and shared decision-making, thus resulting in enhanced follow-through with Action Plans and linkage to mental health care for children.

TEAMS R34 #1 After-Action Reviews in Child Welfare Services

TEAMS R34 #1 After-Action Reviews in Child Welfare Services

Condition
Mental Health Issue
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

San Diego

UC San Diego - IN STEP Children's Mental Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States, 92123

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. (For leaders) Employed as one of several CWS leadership positions: CWS Director, CWS Deputy Director, CWS Regional Manager; (For caseworkers) Employed as a caseworker in one of the two participating regions for the proposed study.
  • 2. Plans to remain employed for at least six months beyond study initiation
  • 3. Speaks English or Spanish
  • 1. Member of CFT with one of the participating CWS caseworkers. CFT members can include mental health services provider, Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), educational representative, and other supports
  • 2. Speaks English or Spanish
  • 1. Parent/caregiver of child aged 6-17 with an open CWS case
  • 2. Initial CFT meeting for open CWS case has not yet been held (Aim 3)
  • 3. Speaks English or Spanish
  • 1. Child aged 6-17 with an open CWS case
  • 2. Mental health services need/s (identified by the CWS caseworker via CANS screening in advance of the initial CFT meeting, during which consensus is reached regarding the Action Plan and service referral)

Ages Eligible for Study

6 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of California, San Diego,

Study Record Dates

2025-03