Evolutionary drift in systems of care development

Rotto, Knute I.; McIntyre, Janet S.

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.05.007

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“…The analysis was iterative, involving considerable interaction with key research participants at each of the participating systems for the purpose of ensuring accuracy of reported findings (Creswell 2003;Miles and Huberman 1994). In addition to producing site-based reports (http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu/ cssi/default.cfm), the research team worked collaboratively with system participants to explore specific aspects of the systems change strategies in more depth and disseminate findings in both research and community settings (Baxter 2007(Baxter , 2010Brogan 2007;Cervine 2007;Hodges and Ferreira 2010a;Hodges et al 2007bHodges et al , 2009bRotto and McIntyre 2010). As a whole, the data collection and analysis, formulation of a conceptual model, and dissemination of study results reflect the SSM learning cycle of incorporating stakeholder experiences of systems for children with SED into systems thinking and then making them available for application in SOC communities (as illustrated in Fig.…”

Section: Includes Voluntary Alliances Of Child-serving Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“If We're Going to Change Things, It Has to Be Systemic:” Systems Change in Children's Mental Health

Hodges

Ferreira

Israel³

2012

American J of Comm Psychol

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Communities that undertake systems change in accordance with the system of care philosophy commit to creating new systems entities for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. These new entities are values-based, voluntary, and cross-agency alliances that include formal child-serving entities, youth, and families. Describing the scope and intent of one such implementation of systems of care, a mental health administrator commented, "If we're going to change things, it has to be systemic" (B. Baxter, personal communication, December 2, 2005). This paper explores the concept of "systemic" in the context of systems of care. Systems theory is used to understand strategies of purposeful systems change undertaken by stakeholders in established system of care communities. The paper presents a conceptual model of systems change for systems of care that is grounded in data from a national study of system of care implementation (Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health in Case Studies of system implementation: Holistic approaches to studying community-based systems of care: Study 2, University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health, Tampa, FL, 2004). The model is based on Soft Systems Methodology, an application of systems theory developed to facilitate practical action around systems change in human systems (Checkland in Systems thinking, systems practice, Wiley, Chichester, 1999). The implications of these findings to real world actions associated with systems change in systems of care are discussed.

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Section: Includes Voluntary Alliances Of Child-serving Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%