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March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Researchers at McKinsey & Co. explored the potential of social impact bonds as a pay-for-performance means to finance the expansion of proven social service programs. Their study focused on two areas: homelessness and prisoner recidivism.
November 17, 2008 | Program Result
The National Quality Forum used its consensus development process to identify evidence-based practices to treat substance use conditions that should receive high priority for widespread implementation.
December 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Center for Health Care Strategies produced a paper examining how state governments employ purchasing levers to encourage the use of evidence-based practices in the field of substance abuse treatment.
October 1, 2002 | Program Result
A partnership between the American College of Mental Health Administration and five major U.S. accrediting organizations produced a consensus set of indicators for behavioral health services.
February 5, 2013 | Program Result
Child FIRST is a home-based early childhood intervention that works with the most vulnerable very young children and their families to reduce serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect.
November 4, 2011 | Program Result
Beginning in 2007, the Open Society Institute led a project to encourage the use of NQF quality standards for the treatment of substance abuse conditions.
May 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Partnerships between providers and policy-makers to boost evidence-based treatment of substance use yielded important treatment successes. This study examines the outcomes of the RWJF national initiative Advancing Recovery.
National Program
A model that improves the health and well-being of adolescents by using evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
April 15, 2011 | Program Result
From 2007 to 2010, the Rapid Evaluation and Action for Community Health in New Orleans, Louisiana (REACH NOLA) tackled the city's mental health crisis through its Health and Resilience Project.
National Program
Initiative to test the feasibility and effectiveness of developing a large national effort to build a cadre of researchers who integrate substance abuse issues into mainstream medicine.