1. 9 TH WORLD CONGRESS ON THE PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH PRE-CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 BRIDGING RESEARCH, TRAINING, POLICY & PRACTICE MELISSA GEORGE, SETH BERNSTEIN & CHRISTINA PATE Mental Health-Education Integration Consortium & Carolina Network for School Mental Health

2. AGENDA Purpose  Opportunity to share about MHEDIC & CNSMH  Highlight the spirit of these organizations  Provide a space for active collaboration Example: Social Network Analysis  Purposefully thinking about and evaluating our collaboration Roundtable Discussions on Critical SMH themes  Bridging Research, Training, Practice & Policy Group Discussion on Strategies Closing

3. Social Network Analysis

4. SNA-INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND  Research conducted by Liz Mellin & Naorah Lockhart  Interdisciplinary collaborative groups increasing in both research and practice  Often use network language (members/actors and relational ties) to describe these collaborations  Social network analysis (SNA) – measures interdependent relationships among group members – important for understanding the structure and accomplishments of social networks like MHEDIC

5. CURRENT STUDY  Document the structure of MHEDIC and knowledge transfer across traditional disciplinary/professional boundaries.  Examination of the way in which members are tied with other members from their home discipline/profession and members from other disciplines or professions.

6. METHODS  Eligible if attended at least 2 MHEDIC meetings between Fall 2010 and Fall 2013 (36 members eligible)  Developed survey based on Haines et al., (2011) that asked each member about his/her connections to other members within 6 different types of relationships (cite, co-author, grants, met professionally, mentoring, co-present)  UCINET 6.0 to analyze networks

7. CO- AUTHORED MHEDIC members not included in this relational network M01 = LM M10 = MW M15 = AB M29 = DB M37 = AI Pink = Counseling Orange = Education Blue = Psychology Green = Social Work

8. CO- PRESENTED M01 = LM M10 = MW M15 = AB M29 = DB M37 = AI Pink = Counseling Orange = Education Blue = Psychology Green = Social Work

9. VALUE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN MHEDIC  COLLABORATIVE SUCCESSES  Expanding network  Professional advancement  New ways of thinking, new knowledge  Diversifying ideas in home profession/discipline  MISSED OPPORTUNITIES  Lack of representation from education in membership  Funded research  Disciplinary/profession centrism within the group

10. Roundtable Discussions

11. ROUNDTABLE ACTIVITY- SMHILE THEMES Workforce Development Interdisciplinary & Cross-system Collaboration Quality Assurance Implementation of EBPs Family, student and stakeholder involvement

12. ROUNDTABLE ACTIVITY Describe what bridging research, training, policy and practice means to you? Discuss what critical next steps or issues need to be addressed to advance this bridge? Describe how professional organizations can help to bridge? Share out with the large group: Describe 1 to 3 strategies for bridging research, training, policy and practice (within individual organizations and/or across organizations).

13. Strategies for Bridging Gaps?

14. For More Information Visit www.mhedic.orgwww.mhedic.org Dawn Anderson-Butcher, MHEDIC Chair Anderson-butcher.1@osu.edu Jill Hoffman, Graduate Student Chair Hoffman.800@osu.edu Visit carolinanetwork.orgcarolinanetwork.org Kurt Michael, CNSMH Co- Founder and Leader michaelkd@appstate.edu Mark Weist, CNSMH Co- Founder and Leader weist@mailbox.sc.edu