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LSU Health Sciences Center LSU Health Digital Scholar Policy & Position Papers School of Public Health 10-1-2011 Brief: Fostering a Movement Towards Evidence-Based Screening, Assessment, and Treatment Institute for Public Health and Justice LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans Evidence-based Treatment and Services LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans Evidence Based Practices Dissemination Strategies LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/soph_wp  Part of the Public Health Commons Recommended Citation and Justice, Institute for Public Health; Treatment and Services, Evidence-based; and Dissemination Strategies, Evidence Based Practices, "Brief: Fostering a Movement Towards Evidence-Based Screening, Assessment, and Treatment" (2011). Policy & Position Papers. 27. https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/soph_wp/27 This White Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Public Health at LSU Health Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Policy & Position Papers by an authorized administrator of LSU Health Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact DigitalScholar@lsuhsc.edu.  LOUISIANA MfC BRIEF   Fostering a Movement Towards Evidence-Based  Screening, Assessment, and Treatment  DESCRIPTION In 2006, Louisiana was selected as the third state for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change initiative.  Models for Change is a juvenile justice reform initiative that seeks has created successful and replicable models of juvenile justice reform through targeted investments in selected states. Models for Change seeks to accelerate progress toward a more rational, fair, effective, and developmentally appropriate juvenile justice system. Models for Change seeks to advance reforms that effectively hold young people accountable for their actions, provide for their rehabilitation, protect them from harm, increase their life chances, and manage the risk they pose to themselves and to public safety.   To that end, a system founded on evidence-based practices is crucial to reform. Such a system must be able to:  a) identify the variety of needs of youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system through utilization of scientifically sound screening and assessment instruments; and b) refer youth to a range of evidence-based services to meet their identified needs.  Successfully implementing a long-term, system wide movement towards evidence-based practices, while perhaps one of the most important reforms that a state or local jurisdiction can take on, is also one of the most challenging.  Jurisdictions that take on this charge must address a number of complicated and interwoven challenges, including:  the need for broad support and knowledge among a range of stakeholders at the state and local levels;  the ability to provide for ongoing, continuous stakeholder education and awareness, in order to deal with changing leadership and agency personnel;  lack of knowledge among stakeholders about the various evidence-based practices, and the potential “fit” of these practices with the local community’s needs and resources;  capacity to implement evidence-based practices within the local provider community;  provider resistance to shifting from treatment-as-usual to an evidence-based practice, and to participate in fidelity and outcome monitoring processes;  funding streams that may not be structured to encourage or support evidence-based practices;  the need for policy development that ensures the preferred utilization of evidence based practices  This monograph, written by the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences School of Public Health, describes the strategies and key accomplishments of the Models for Change efforts to advance the adoption and utilization of EBPs throughout targeted sites in Louisiana.  TARGET AUDIANCE The monograph is meant to assist state administration, agency, court, juvenile justice system, parish, and region leadership in advancing evidence-based, promising, and research driven practices in their own area.  FURTHER INFORMATIONThis monograph is available at http://publichealth.lsuhsc.edu/iphj/default.html or by contacting sphill2@lsuhsc.edu.  

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