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Birds of a Feather

Human Services Evaluation

Session: Birds of a Feather

38 - To Evaluation and Beyond: Moving Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) Beyond Mandatory Data Collection and Toward Systemic Inquiry

Stream: Health and Wellness

Friday, October 25, 2024
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM PST
Location: Exhibit Hall A
Birds of a Feather
Abstract Information: This roundtable features Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) program evaluators sharing their struggles and successes in guiding CCBHC clients to move beyond mandatory data collection activities into meaningful evaluation practices. Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), CCBHC grantees face complex and competing mandates to meet the expected compliance requirements of the grant and to evaluate their programming's impact. New evaluators or new-to-CCBHC evaluators may feel lost or confused by the trailheads left by SAMHSA or other consultants. A limiting focus on the mandatory data collection parameters creates barriers addressing agency- and region-specific population health management that may need more targeted or systematic evaluation approaches to answer questions on the quality and efficacy of the CCBHC model. This roundtable will feature a brief review of presenters’ experiences with CCBHC evaluation plans at multiple stages of development, discussion of the challenges encountered at each phase, and the considerations and conversations that seemed impactful in shifting the perspectives around evaluation for our CCBHC clients and their stakeholders. Participants are members of an informal CCBHC evaluators networking group, which focuses on peer-sharing and peer-problem solving around best practices and evaluation barriers for our diverse CCBHC clients.