Table 2.

Selection of Partnered Research Center for Quality Care projects

Project	Selected partners	Aims
Community partners in care	Behavioral Health Services, Healthy African American Families (HAAF), HOPICS, Los Angeles Urban League, NAMI Urban Los Angeles, Queenscare, RAND, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center	Group-level, randomized comparison trial of a community-engagement, network-building intervention and a low-intensity dissemination approach, each designed to promote adoption of key components of two established, evidence-based quality improvement (QI) programs for depression.
REACH-NOLA: -Mental health infrastructure & training	Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, Common Ground Health Clinic, St. Thomas Community Health Center, University of Washington, REACH NOLA, Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House, Kaiser Permanente, St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, UCLA, RAND, Tulane University School of Medicine, Trinity Counseling and Training Center	A collaboration of many local and national nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and academic institutions that seeks to address depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
CBITS	Los Angeles Unified School District, Madison School District, Mercy Family Center, Queenscare, RAND, UCLA, University of California San Diego, University of Southern California	-To evaluate, in a randomized controlled trial, a brief group intervention to address PTSD and depressive symptoms in students-To partner with a faith-based community to disseminate CBITS in parochial schools- To study implementation feasibility and sustainability in schools across three communities: Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Madison-To study a quality improvement approach to improve implementation of CBITS in the schools compared to implementation as usual
Adoption work	CASE, TIES for Adoption, UCLA	To develop a manualized intervention for children adopted from foster care aimed at decreasing risk for substance abuse and increasing family and child adjustment.
Decision Aid	CalMEND, UCLA	-To pilot-test a clinician decision support tool for adults receiving medication treatment for serious mental illness in Medicaid-funded outpatient specialty mental health programs.
Resilience workgroup	DHHS, HAAF, LA Department of Public Health, LAUSD, NIMH, NIOSH, RAND, Red Cross, SAMHSA/CMHS, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, USC, VA	To define community resilience and identify ways to assess communities’ assets and strengths, critical measures, ways of tracking resilience, and to identify successful intervention models.
Mental Health Services Act Study	LA Department of Mental Health (LA DMH), UCLA, USC, Veterans Affairs	To document implementation of the MHSA in LA County and understand how an influx of funds into new specialized public mental health programs affects clients and providers in those programs and clients and providers in non-MHSA programs.
Stigma reduction	LA DMH, UCLA	To combat stigma and discrimination by conducting oral history interviews and identifying archival documents from numerous sources.