Building capacity to implement sexual health risk and substance use disorder prevention services in adolescent behavioral health treatment: A case study

Alison Greene, Josephine D. Korchmaros, Monica Davis, Tamara Sargus and Fedora Preston-Haynes

Children and Youth Services Review, 2023, vol. 155, issue C

Abstract: Adolescents with mental health and psychiatric disorders, as compared to their peers, are at increased risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections and developing substance use disorders (SUD). Practitioners need integrated programs addressing sexual health and substance misuse to promote healthy behaviors among vulnerable adolescent populations. Building agency capacity necessary to integrate sexual health education and SUD prevention can be challenging, but dissemination and implementation frameworks and models can provide a structured approach. This case study examines the application of the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation and the Evidence-based System for Innovation Support to build the capacity of behavioral health agency staff to deliver an integrated sexual health risk and SUD prevention program with adolescents. Over a five-year period, researchers and behavioral health agency staff collaborated and increased agency capacity by using a training-of-trainers approach, comprehensive tools, proactive technical assistance, and quality assurance. While there were significant challenges, such as staff turnover and competing agency priorities, the team certified eight facilitators in the selected health promotion intervention and two agency trainers with the capacity for ongoing expansion and the expectation of sustainability of needed adolescent services.

Keywords: Capacity-building; Sexual health and SUD prevention; Adolescent behavioral health; Theory to practice; Dissemination and implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107152

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