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Just Click Search: Placing Evidence-Informed Interventions at the Fingertips of School Social Workers

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM

Humberto López Castillo, MD, MEd, MSc , Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Behavioral Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Tommi Rivers, BA , Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Behavioral Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Catherine Randall, MSW , Institute for Translational Research in Adolescent Behavioral Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  
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This session shares the experiences of a collaborative partnership between the Hillsborough County School District and the Translational Research Institute of the University of South Florida. Institute scholars worked in close partnership with the HSC school social worker supervisor and advisors to create an online database called eBIT (Evidence-based Intervention Toolkit). Actively translating research to practice, eBIT enables school social workers to search for an intervention with a specific evidence base.

In this session, participants will hear the process by which the Institute Scholars worked with the Hillsborough County Public school social workers to jointly decide upon the development of a searchable online database for identifying evidence-based interventions. This database is called eBIT (Evidence-Based Intervention Toolkit) and is a searchable electronic repository for evidence-based school social work interventions. Participants will learn how eBIT was designed and developed in collaboration with the HCPS Information Systems (IS) department; the research methods employed by Institute Scholars to identify evidence-based interventions to build the eBIT database; and how implementation of eBIT impacted the use of evidence-based interventions by social workers in the school district.

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Other professions or practice related to public health
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how translational research methods impacted the array of available interventions provided by school social workers. Identify the specific products developed through this translational research collaboration of direct benefit to administrators and practitioners.

Keyword(s): Child/Adolescent Mental Health, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: In addition to being a Medical Doctor (MD) with a completed MEd and MSc, I am completing my doctoral program at the University of South Florida in Public Health. My educational and occupational experience form a solid foundation for experience in this area.
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.

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