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Evaluation of Outcomes of Fresno County's Mental Health Prevention Programs
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashwood, J. Scott
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- California's prevention and early intervention (PEI) regulations state that county departments of behavioral health should measure appropriate outcomes and indicators, but the regulations do not provide specific guidance on which outcomes to measure and how to measure them. Many counties have struggled to measure PEI outcomes, in part because prevention programs often do not use electronic health records to capture participant data. To address this challenge, the Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health engaged a RAND evaluation team to design a web-based data collection tool for its prevention programs. This report summarizes initial results from early data collected via this new tool from four prevention programs that piloted it. The data indicate that the programs serve a diverse, high-needs population. Youth and adults alike experienced challenges in various domains: They had low self-efficacy, high perceived stress, low social support, and low overall life satisfaction. Adults also reported low mental health knowledge and difficulty functioning because of emotional issues.
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