Staff and Youth Buy-In Ideas for Initial and Sustainable Facility-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports Implementation Within Residential and Juvenile Facilities

Boden, Lauren J.; Ennis, Robin Parks; Allen, Lester; Williams, Davashia; Dana, Lisa

doi:10.1177/0741932519896078

“…If the data indicate additional evidence-based interventions are required, facilities should seek staff buy-in, ensure that they can be implemented with fidelity, and meet the mental health needs of their culturally and linguistically diverse populations (Kern et al, 2017). After staff select which additional evidence-based interventions will be implemented, it is essential to first thoroughly train all staff on implementation procedures (Boden, Ennis, Allen, Williams, & Dana, 2020; Jolivette et al, 2015).…”

Section: Embedding Mental Health Practices Into Fw-pbismentioning

confidence: 99%

Using the PBIS Framework to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities

Kumm

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,

Mathur

²

,

Cassavaugh

³

et al. 2020

Remedial and Special Education

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Youth in juvenile justice facilities may experience symptoms of mental health disorders and trauma at a higher rate than their normative peers. As a result, juvenile justice facilities have become de facto mental health agencies, resulting in an increased need to provide interventions that can meet the various needs of their residents. Embedding mental health and trauma-informed care into tiered facility-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (FW-PBIS) is an emerging practice to meet a multitude of youth mental health symptoms. In this article, we provide examples of how mental health and trauma-informed care can be interwoven into an FW-PBIS framework by using a data-based decision-making process to guide the implementation of tiered evidence-based interventions, and we offer implications for practice and research.

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“…Initial reasons for mentors' hesitation might include feeling overwhelmed by existing program demands, or perhaps an unwillingness to change practice-as-usual. Buy-in may be obtained by eliciting staff feedback, maintaining effective and transparent communication, promoting pre-program training, and setting small initial goals, among other practices (Boden et al, 2020). Bypassing these steps to implementation may lead to contextual and program barriers (e.g., increased staff burden and low staff investment) in coupling mentoring and SSIs, thereby decreasing the quality of the proposed intervention model.…”

Section: Implementing Mentor-delivered Ssismentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the reach of psychosocial services for youth: Untapped potential of mentor‐delivered single session interventions

Hart

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,

Sung

²

,

McQuillin

³

et al. 2022

Journal Community Psychology

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At present, the mental healthcare system cannot meet the demand for services, and the need-to-access gap is widest among children and adolescents. Single session interventions (SSIs) are brief, intentional, and mechanism-targeted programs that have shown promise in increasing the reach of effective, evidencebased services; yet, a wide gap still remains due to structural barriers (e.g., workforce shortages). The present paper posits the integration of SSIs and mentor-delivered programs as a promising future step to further overcome the inaccessibility of youth mental health services. Capitalizing on the advantages of mentoring relationships (e.g., the associated interpersonal benefits and mentors' pre-existence in most community settings) has potential to complement and enhance the value of SSIs, and to expand the acceptability and reach of evidence-based mental health services. In this paper, we discuss the anticipated benefits of mentor-delivered SSIs, as well as cautionary considerations related to the proposed model. To conclude, we highlight necessary implementation and research implications. MENTOR-DELIVERED SSIs 3Expanding the Reach of Psychosocial Services for Youth: Untapped Potential of Mentor-Delivered Single Session InterventionsDespite modern and ongoing advancements in designing, validating, and disseminating mental health interventions, an estimated 50% of individuals in need of services do not receive treatment (Merikangas et al., 2009). This percentage is higher among children and adolescents (herein, "youth"), due to increases in the prevalence of youth mental health issues and associated needs for treatment (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020), and to the shortage and inequitable distribution of professional providers (American Psychological Association [APA], 2015;Thomas et al., 2006) among other structural and stigma-linked challenges. In other words, barriers to accessing and receiving youth mental health services remain rampant, though clinical science has developed and validated treatments for many presenting problems. In the current cultural, health, and sociopolitical landscape (e.g., the increasing visibility of discrimination and prejudice, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic), this need-to-access gap is expected to maintain or widen as people face increased and new stressors and resources become sparser (

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“…Relevant stakeholders will vary by setting, but in virtually all implementation cases, mentors themselves must report willingness to participate in and support the delivery of SSIs. Such buy-in may be obtained by eliciting staff feedback, maintaining effective and transparent communication, promoting pre-program training, and setting small initial goals, among other previously-used practices (Boden et al, 2020). Bypassing these steps to implementation may lead to contextual and program barriers (e.g., increased staff burden and low staff investment) in coupling mentoring and SSIs, thereby decreasing the quality of the proposed intervention model.…”

Section: Recommendations For Future Research and Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the Reach of Psychosocial Services for Youth: Untapped Potential of Mentor-Delivered Single Session Interventions

Mj¹,

Sung²,

Sd³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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At present, the mental healthcare system cannot meet the demand for services, and the need-to-access gap is widest among children and adolescents. Single session interventions (SSIs) or brief, intentional, and mechanism-targeted prevention and intervention programs have shown promise in increasing the reach of effective, evidence-based services, but a wide gap still remains due to other structural barriers (e.g., workforce shortages). The present paper calls for the coupling of SSIs and mentor-delivered programs as a promising future step to further overcome the inaccessibility of youth mental health services. Indeed, capitalizing on the advantages of mentoring relationships (e.g., the associated interpersonal benefits and mentors’ pre-existence in most community settings) has the power to complement and enhance the value of SSIs, and to expand the acceptability and reach of evidence-based mental health services. In this paper, we discuss the anticipated benefits of mentor-delivered SSIs from multiple perspectives, as well as cautionary considerations related to the proposed model. To conclude, we highlight necessary implementation considerations prior to deploying any systems change.

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Staff and Youth Buy-In Ideas for Initial and Sustainable Facility-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports Implementation Within Residential and Juvenile Facilities

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Using the PBIS Framework to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities

Using the PBIS Framework to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Youth in Juvenile Justice Facilities

Expanding the reach of psychosocial services for youth: Untapped potential of mentor‐delivered single session interventions

Expanding the Reach of Psychosocial Services for Youth: Untapped Potential of Mentor-Delivered Single Session Interventions

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