EBP Exchange - UMB School of Social Work

The EBBP.org project is hosted by Northwestern and funded by NIH, OBSSR. The intention of the project is to create training resources to help bridge the gap between behavioral health research and practice. They hope to help professionals from the major health disciplines to collaboarate to learn, teach, and implement evidence-based behavioral practice (EBBP).  They even have a blog set up, for those of you who just aren’t, sigh, getting everything you hoped or from this blog.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has developed a new Web page to assist the public in identifying evidence-based programs and practices that can prevent and/or treat mental and substance use disorders.  Debuting online today, A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices on the Web at www.samhsa.gov/ebpWebguide features 37 Web sites that contain information about specific evidence-based interventions or provide comprehensive reviews of research findings.

The Web Guide – a component of SAMHSA’s Science and Service Initiative - can be used by stakeholders throughout the behavioral health field to promote awareness of current intervention research and to increase the availability and implementation of evidence-based practices.

Users can browse the listings in the Web Guide by content area, age group, or treatment setting.  Each listing includes the name of the organization sponsoring the Web site, a hyperlink to the actual Web site, a statement of the site’s purpose and intended audience(s), and key features, such as sources of evidence and review processes and information on resources needed to implement the evidence-based practices properly.

For more information, visit A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) on the Web at www.samhsa.gov/ebpWebguide .

Students in the School’s Child Welfare Research class have each conducted reviews of evidence about interventions that may increase child safety for children.  These reports range in focus from primary prevention programs (like education to prevent incidents of  shaken baby to interventions that might address the consequences of child maltreatment and prevent the recurrence of child maltreatment, to interventions that focus on helping adolescents in foster care prevent future maltreatment of their children).  They will each post a brief version of their reports by replying to this post.  I hope you join in the discussion about what “might” work to decrease the risk of child abuse and neglect and increase safety for children.

Success Strategies for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices
Two publications emphasizing evidence-based practices in program
implementation are now available from Child Trends. Core strategies on
how to properly implement and replicate proven programs, as well as why
evidence is necessary to successful outcomes, are discussed.
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2007_10_01_RB_6SuccessDrivers.pdf
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2007_10_01_RB_Replicability.pdf

*** Previous posts about other resources on the Child Trends web site have been posted on the blog.  These handouts could be useful as an introduction to agencies who may be considering implementing evidence based practice.   They are noted to be Publications # 3 and #4 in a series.  If you want to scan other papers in the series, go to http://www.childtrends.org   Click on publications, then scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see them listed.