2017 | United States, South Africa
The effectiveness of evidence-informed interventions using community-based participatory research with vulnerable populations in the US and abroad
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The past two decades have seen significant advancements in the development of evidence-informed interventions to support the emotional wellbeing of children and families exposed to serious negative health and mental health threats. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a strategy based on relationships with communities and stakeholders that can support the applicability and implementation of effective and practical service models within poverty-impacted communities. This paper will present two theoretically driven, empirically based local and global experimental CBPR interventions designed to be sustainable in real world settings that improve child prosocial behaviors. The 4 R’s and 2 S’s for Strengthening Families (R01 MH072649) is a collaboratively developed practice model that integrates common elements of evidence-informed treatments for behavioral difficulties into a coordinated set of practices, with a focus on strengthening families, reducing parenting stress and building social support. The Collaborative HIV Prevention Adolescent Mental Health Program in South Africa (CHAMPSA; R01 MH55701) is a family-based, developmentally timed HIV prevention intervention to reduce risk behaviors among uninfected youth.
Parchment, T. M., Small, L., Bornheimer, L., McKay, M., & Bhana, A. (2017, January). The effectiveness of evidence-informed interventions using community-based participatory research with vulnerable populations in the US and abroad. Oral presentation for the Society for Social Work and Research 21st Annual Conference: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth. New Orleans, LA.