Project Description

Over the last two decades, NC has experienced one of the fastest rates of Latino population growth in the nation, resulting in rapidly changing behavioral health needs. Higher rates of trauma and different cultural understandings create an urgent demand for adapted behavioral health approaches. Too often providers face a research-to-practice gap based on several contributing factors: lack of access to up-to-date information in a specific practice field, lack of awareness of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) or a conceptual framework for uptake of PCOR findings, and lack of capacity to implement new practices based on those PCOR findings. Through research in partnership with RTI, El Futuro aims to develop a toolkit to assess unmet mental health services needs that can have devastating economic and social consequences for the Latino community. The project addresses challenges through patient-centered research that benefits both children and adults.

Project Partners
El Futuro
Project Open
Open
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