“The California Healthy Kids Resource Center was established to assist
schools in promoting health literacy. Health literacy is the capacity of an
individual to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information
and services and the competence to use such information and services in
ways that are health enhancing.”
Defines EBPs
Intended for: teachers, administrators, university faculty, and other
professionals who work with preschool through 12th grade students
Provides descriptions of interventions
Describes evidentiary standards met
Links intact
Organization: Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
“The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.”
Defines EBPs
Intended for: those implementing interventions with children who
have, or are at risk for, problem behavior
Provides descriptions of interventions
Transparent reviews
Describes resources necessary for implementation
Provides guidance on staffing
References related to EBPs
Organization: Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado at Boulder
“The Blueprints Initiative sets a gold standard for implementing
exemplary, research-based violence and drug programs and for
implementing these programs with fidelity to the models. The work that
is being conducted will help to bridge the gap between knowledge
(research) and practice and inform the users of programs of the barriers
that must be overcome in order to achieve maximum success.”
Intended for: program implementers
Provides descriptions of interventions
Describes evidentiary standards met
Describes intervention implementation
Individual TA available
Provides guidance on staffing
Organization: SAMHSA, Co-Occurring Center for Excellence
“The mission of SAMHSA’s Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) is to:…foster the infusion and adoption of evidence-and consensus-based treatment and program innovation into clinical and organizational practice."
Intended for: the co-occurring disorder service system
Provides descriptions of interventions
Transparent reviews
Describes evidentiary standards met
Describes intervention implementation
Individual TA available (free/for fee)
Provides information on fidelity measurement
Provides guidance on staffing
References related to EBPs
Organization: SAMHSA, CSAT’s Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs)
“The ATTC network transmits the latest knowledge, skills and attitudes of professional addiction treatment practice. The ATTC’s goal is to enhance clinical practice.”
“CSAT’s Knowledge Application Program (KAP) assists treatment providers in adopting and implementing the information in CSAT’s published materials. KAP develops tools that program directors, clinical supervisors, and other staff members can use to actively promote the adoption of new treatment approaches, taking “science” to “service.”
Intended for: program directors, clinical supervisors, and program staff members
“Child Trends’ Lifecourse Model presents our extensive knowledge
about programs found to ‘work’ to enhance children’s development,
in a user-friendly format…. This approach is built on the concept that
child development is a cumulative process that begins before birth and
continues into young adulthood.”
Defines EBPs
Intended for: policy makers, program designers, and funders
“Helping America’s Youth is a nationwide effort, initiated by President
George W. Bush and led by First Lady Laura Bush, to benefit children and
teenagers by encouraging action in three key areas: family, school, and
community. [This] Community Guide to Helping America’s Youth helps
communities build partnerships, assess their needs and resources, and
select from program designs that could be replicated in their community.
It walks community groups through the steps necessary for building strong
supports for youth.”
Defines EBPs
Intended for: Communities
Provides descriptions of interventions
Transparent reviews
Describes evidentiary standards met
Describes intervention implementation
References related to EBPs
Organization: National Child Traumatic Stress Network
“The documents linked from this page describe some of the clinicaltreatment
and trauma-informed service pproaches implemented by
National Child Traumatic Stress Network grant sites to reduce the impact
of exposure to traumatic events on children and adolescents.”
Intended for: “program planners addressing the needs of traumatized
children”
“The office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Model Programs Guide (MPG) is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs that can make a difference in the lives of children and communities. The MPG database of evidence-based programs covers the entire continuum of youth services from prevention through sanctions to reentry.”
Intended for: “juvenile justice practitioners, administrators, and researchers”
“The Promising Practices Network (PPN) is dedicated to providing quality evidence-based information about what works to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. The PPN site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children… carefully screened for scientific rigor, relevance, and clarity.”
Intended for: “policymakers, service providers, and other decision makers at all levels who care about improving outcomes for children and families”
Provides descriptions of interventions
Transparent reviews
Describes evidentiary standards met
Describes intervention implementation
Provides guidance on staffing
Organization: Social Programs That Work, Coalition
for Evidence-Based Policy, Council for Excellence in Government
“The central problem that the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy seeks to address is that U.S. social programs are often implemented with little regard to rigorous evidence, costing billions of dollars yet failing to address critical needs of our society in areas such as education, crime and substance abuse, and poverty reduction.… This site summarizes the findings from well-designed randomized controlled trials that, in our view, have particularly important policy implications.”
“The purpose of this site is to inform the general public as well as practitioners regarding the most up-to-date information about mental health practice for children and adolescents. While there are many approaches for treating various psychological disorders, the treatments listed here have been evaluated scientifically for efficacy and will be updated as new treatment research is completed.”
Defines EBPs
Intended for: general public and practitioners
Provides descriptions of interventions
References related to EBP
Organization: Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services
“The mission of the Surgeon General is to protect and improve the public health of the Nation, and this report was developed within the responsibilities and spirit of that mission. This chapter identifies a set of standards based on scientific consensus and applies those standards to the literature… to identify with confidence general strategies and programs that work, that are promising, or that do not.”
