Appendix A
Workshop Statement of Task
HARVESTING THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTMENT IN PREVENTION SCIENCE TO PROMOTE CHILDREN’S COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: A WORKSHOP
Statement of Task: An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct an interactive public workshop featuring presentations and discussion of novel design strategies for increasing implementation of evidence-based approaches to support children’s cognitive, affective, and behavioral health. The workshop will focus on:
- examining principles, practices, and processes that are robust and common across evidence-based interventions (EBIs)
- highlighting key opportunities and barriers to the broad diffusion of EBIs within and across sectors, including schools, primary care, juvenile justice, and child welfare; perspectives will include those of end users of EBIs
- examining the roles of scientific norms, intervention implementation strategies, and practices in care quality and outcomes at the national, state, and local levels
- discussing changes that could be made in financing models, scientific models, and implementation models in order to broadly implement EBIs
- exploring data farming (technological) and analytic strategies that allow iterative quality improvement that could facilitate data-driven adaptation of EBIs
- learning from federal, state, and local administrators about the approaches they have adopted to increase the quality of science-informed prevention in their jurisdictions
- discussing the interfaces and boundary challenges between existing diffusion strategies for EBIs and potential alternative models
- exploring approaches across diverse populations of children and families1
The committee will identify specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and other participants, and moderate the discussions. An individually authored summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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1The workshop examined approaches across a variety of settings and sectors in which children and families receive health care and supportive services. Additional cultural considerations were discussed in the forum’s previous workshop Strategies for Scaling Effective Family-Focused Preventive Interventions to Promote Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health (IOM and NRC, 2014).
