Advanced Center to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Care
(PI: Chamberlain)
Rady Children’s Hospital Research Center

The Advanced Center to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Care (ACIPMHC) is located within the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego with strong linkage to the intervention development program at the Center for Research to Practice (CR2P) with the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) and to other intervention and services research programs and networks around the country. The research agenda has a strategic focus on improvement of public pediatric mental health care, primarily in the mental health and child welfare service sectors, through improved integration of evidence-based practice and usual care. The center’s program of practice research spans clinical epidemiology studies linked to evidence-based practice, effectiveness, and implementation studies. The research agenda has a primary focus on effectiveness and equity as two of the six aims for improving health care from the "Crossing the Quality Chasm" report. An overarching center is the perspective of cultural exchange that guides active partnerships with major stakeholders in youth mental health care, including youth and family consumers, providers, program and funding managers, system administrators, policy makers, and intervention and services researchers.