Initiated in 1999, the CMHS/CSAT Homeless Families Initiative is a two-phase, multi-site program designed to test the effectiveness of time-limited mental health, substance abuse, and trauma treatment interventions for homeless mothers with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders who are caring for their dependent children. A cross-site evaluation of the study site interventions is being facilitated by a Coordinating Center (CC) working collaboratively with all sites, the federal government, and a Consumer Panel. This paper, presented by the CC's principal investigator, will offer a synthesis of the sites participating in the Program, including their target populations, intervention strategies, and study designs. The presentation will highlight the cross-site logic model and its development, and will describe how a common protocol has been developed to test this model. Challenges to a cross-site analysis strategy presented by the diversity of sites and study populations will be discussed. Efforts underway to identify and measure common intervention ingredients across the sites will be described, particularly in how they may permit pooling data across different subsets of sites.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1.Describe the design of the Center for Mental Health Services and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Homeless Families Initiative.
Keywords: Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment
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