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Supporting the Mental Health Workforce

NCT03709537 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 366

Last updated 2024-04-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Emotional Health Association will engage Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health providers that employ peer workers in a training and technical assistance intervention designed to support, increase, and retain an effective peer workforce. This intervention consists of a Co-Learning Collaborative, several training sessions, and the creation of Implementation Teams. Peer workers will also be encouraged to attend Recovery International, an established network of self-help support groups for mental health. Dr. Louis Brown will lead an evaluation of the efficacy of the intervention. This study will inform the use of peer workers as a component of the mental health workforce.

Conditions

  • Mental Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mental Health Peer Workforce Support

Supervisors and peer workers will participate in trainings covering effective peer services, trauma-informed effective peer supervision, and responsibilities of peer workers in a supervising relationship. A monthly Supervisors of Peer Workers meeting will support site change efforts. Sites will create an implementation team to work within their site to implement the training received. Peer Workers will enroll in a peer mentoring program, where they serve as peer mentors matched with fellow peer mentors. Recovery International and the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health will encourage peer workers to attend Recovery International meetings. Emotional Health Association will refer Peer Workers and their Supervisors in the intervention group to self-help support groups that reduce stress and increase resiliency.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Emotional Health Association

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Louis D Brown, PhD · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-23
Primary Completion
2020-01-07
Completion
2020-01-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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