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Family drug courts are programs that serve the complex needs of families involved with the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse. This article summarizes the results of outcomes and selected costs of a system-wide reform located in Baltimore, Maryland. Results from this study found that parents served by the program entered treatment faster, stayed in treatment longer, and completed treatment more often than non-served parents. Children in program families spent less time in foster care and were more likely to be reunified with their biological parents. These outcomes resulted in cost savings, including reduced foster care expenditures.j fcj_1062 1..14 The relationship between parental substance abuse and child welfare involvement is well evidenced in the literature. Between 25% and 80% of child welfare cases involve alcohol and other drugs indicated on the child welfare petition (

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The economic and human cost of suicidal behavior to individuals, families, communities, and society makes suicide a serious public health concern, both in the US and around the world. As research and evaluation continue to identify strategies that have the potential to reduce or ultimately prevent suicidal behavior, the need for translating these findings into practice grows. The development of actionable knowledge is an emerging process for translating important research and evaluation findings into action to benefit practice settings. In an effort to apply evaluation findings to strengthen suicide prevention practice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supported the development of three actionable knowledge products that make key findings and lessons learned from youth suicide prevention program evaluations accessible and useable for action. This paper describes the actionable knowledge framework (adapted from the knowledge transfer literature), the three products that resulted, and recommendations for further research into this emerging method for translating research and evaluation findings and bridging the knowledge-action gap. KEYWORDSSuicide prevention, Youth, Actionable knowledge, Knowledge to action, Knowledge-action, Researchto-practice, Implementation, Knowledge transfer, Public healthThe economic and human cost of suicidal behavior to individuals, families, communities, and society makes suicide a serious public health concern, both in the United States and around the world. In the US, it is estimated that deaths resulting from suicide create a financial burden of over 26 billion dollars a year in medical costs and work loss [1]. Suicide is also one of the most common causes of death among young people in the US. It is the second leading cause of death among 25-34-year-olds and the third leading cause of death among 15-24-year-olds [2]. In 2011, nearly 16 % of high school students (typical age range 14-18 years old) reported that they had seriously considered suicide in the past year [3], that is, about three students out of a typical classroom of 20 [4].The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines suicidal behavior as including (1) suicidal ideation (thoughts of harming or killing oneself), (2) suicide attempt (a nonfatal, self-directed potentially injurious behavior with any intent to die as a result of the behavior), and/or (3) suicide (death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with any intent to die as a result of the behavior) [5]. Historically in the US, suicide has almost exclusively been addressed by providing mental health services to people already experiencing suicidal thoughts or behavior. While