Caring for California Initiative

Principal Investigator

• Michael Hurlburt

Funding

• California State Department of Mental Health
  • $1,000,000 - Bonnie Zima, Principal Investigator
  • $100,000 - sub-contract from UCLA, Michael Hurlburt, Principal Investigator

Project Description

The CCI is a collaborative project that seeks to understand how well California's public mental health agencies are caring for children and adolescents with key clinical problems, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Major Depression, and Conduct Disorder.

These problems were chosen because they are common and have established effective treatments. By linking county- and clinic-level organizational and financing information with abstracted medical record data on quality of care indicators, the project will develop recommendations for enhancing the quality of care provided by public mental health programs for California's children and adolescents.

The CCI represents a collaboration between the California Department of Mental Health and the California Health Services Research Consortium, a group representing four university-based health services research centers sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.

Participating Programs

• Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Children's Hospital in San Diego
• The Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco
• The National Research Center on Asian-American Mental Health at the University of California at Davis
• The Center for Research on Managed Care at the University of California at Los Angeles