- Title
- A theory of change for community-initiated mental health care in the United States
- Creator
- Breuer, Erica; Morris, Angelika; Blanke, Laura; Pearsall, Miriam; Rodriguez, Roxana; Miller, Benjamin F.; Naslund, John A.; Saxena, Shekhar; Balsari, Satchit; Patel, Vikram
- Relation
- Cambridge Prisms Vol. 10, no. e56, p. 1-11
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2023.49
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Mental health service delivery needs radical reimagination in the United States where unmet needs for care remain large and most metrics on the burden of mental health problems have worsened, despite significant numbers of mental health professionals, spending on service provision and research. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the need for mental health care. One path to a radical reimagination is“Community Initiated Care (CIC)”which equips and empowers communities to address by providing brief psychosocial interventions by people in community settings. We co-developed a theory of change (ToC) for CIC with 24 stakeholders including representatives from community-based, advocacy, philanthropic and faith-based organizations to understand how CIC could be developed and adapted for specific contexts. We present a ToC which describes ways in which the CIC initiative can promote and strengthen mental health in communities in the United States with respect to community organization and leadership; community care and inclusion and normalizing mental health. We propose 10 strategies as part of CIC and propose a way forward for implementation and evaluation. This CIC model is a local, tailored approach which can expand the role of community members to strengthen our response to mental health needs in the United States.
- Subject
- community-initiated care; community-based care; task-sharing; psychosocial interventions; mental health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1491942
- Identifier
- uon:53164
- Identifier
- ISSN:2054-4251
- Rights
- © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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