Evaluation of partner collaboration to improve community-based mental health services for low-income minority children and their families

Jane Hamilton, Charles Begley and Ralph Culler

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2014, vol. 45, issue C, 50-60

Abstract: This paper describes a mixed methods evaluation of partner agency collaboration within a system of care implemented from 2010 to 2012 in a historically underserved minority community in Houston, Texas. The first section describes the project and the framework for evaluating partner agency collaboration. The second section describes the evaluation methods and presents the baseline and follow-up results of the evaluation. The third section includes a discussion of the evaluation findings, the conclusion, and the lessons learned.

Keywords: Mental health services; Health disparities; Collaboration; Program evaluation; Systems of care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.03.010

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