# Accelerator Strategies for States to Improve System Transformations Affecting Children, Youth and Families

> **NIH NIH P50** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2022 · $1,561,832

## Abstract

OVERALL: Project Summary/Abstract
The ASSIST Center—Accelerator Strategies for States to Improve System Transformations Affecting Children,
Youth and Families—builds on an infrastructure developed through a 15-year collaboration between New York
University School of Medicine (The IDEAS Center) and the New York State Office of Mental Health, creating
the only national children's policy dissemination and implementation (D&I) research laboratory in the country
focused on improving the uptake of policy-relevant, evidence-based services for youth with serious mental
health disorders (SMHD). ASSIST will develop tools to improve the uptake of child mental health (MH)
research evidence by state policymakers, and test two practical accelerator strategies to improve D&I of
evidence-based practices in state systems. Guided by Shortell's Levels of Change Framework and Leeman et
al's “beyond implementation strategies,” ASSIST's objectives and specific aims support the National Institute of
Mental Health's (NIMH) Strategic Research Objectives 3.3 and 4.4. The specific aims of the Center are to: Aim
1. Advance policy-relevant effectiveness, dissemination, and implementation research across multiple levels of
state systems (policymakers, agencies, providers, youth/families), including meaningful engagement of diverse
Center stakeholders, to improve publicly-funded services for youth with SMHD and their families; Aim 2.
Identify state policy dissemination targets and test a set of brief and practical accelerator strategies (diagnostic
and engagement) to improve clinical practice and youth and family outcomes; Aim 3. Advance the
development of early and mid-career investigators interested in state MH policy and services research through
the Training Unit's comprehensive training opportunities, structured mentoring program, pilot research funding,
and access to a rich set of state and national-level datasets and methodological support (via the Methods Core
[MC]) to support their career development; Aim 4. Identify and develop rigorous, practical, and novel methods
for state policy research for use by health plans, payors, and states via the MC's Project Design and Analysis
Services Unit (PDASU) and Data Coordinating Unit (DCU); and Aim 5. Engage Center stakeholders and
disseminate Center findings nationally, via the Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Unit (CSEU),
which will focus on the engagement and integration of stakeholder input into research projects, and the
national dissemination of Center-developed research products, via the Center's website, newsletter, policy
briefs, webinars, social media channels, and via our National Advisory Board, whose broad national
membership and reach can accelerate the rapid dissemination of information and create efficiencies of effort in
communicating Center research. This Center integrates transdisciplinary implementation and MH services
research expertise within a healthcare quality framework involving six research i...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10437754
- **Project number:** 5P50MH113662-04
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** KIMBERLY E. HOAGWOOD
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,561,832
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-05-21 → 2024-10-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10437754

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10437754, Accelerator Strategies for States to Improve System Transformations Affecting Children, Youth and Families (5P50MH113662-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10437754. Licensed CC0.

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