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Team Effectiveness Processes in Child Welfare Services Child and Family Team Meetings

Awardee: Henry Joel Crume, Ph.D. - UCSD

Co-Investigator(s): Danielle Fettes, Ph.D., Marisa Sklar, Ph.D.

Specific Aims

  1. Evaluate whether CFT members’ views of team mechanisms (goal specification, goal formulation,
    communication, coordination, trust, cohesion, and a sense of collective efficacy) are associated with how
    they understand the CFT meeting’s ability to connect youth and families to appropriate mental and behavioral health services.
  2. Compare how CFT members’ views of team mechanisms differ by meeting platforms (i.e., in-person,
    phone-based, video-based, or hybrid), platform preferences, and team characteristics (e.g., service
    providers, youth, families, or social workers).
  3. Explore responses to open-ended survey items wherein CFT members identified opportunities for improving mental and behavioral health service linkages for youth and families through the team decision-making process.