Training, Research, Education and Demonstrations (TREAD)
The Division of Training, Research, Education, and Demonstrations (TREaD) is committed to developing knowledge that supports, improves, and sustains best practice in programs and systems serving children and families. TREaD projects and activities focus on the reduction of mental health disparities, support and improvement systems and organizations serving children with or at risk of serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families, and the development of innovative resources for learning.
Projects
- Theory-based Logic Models Technical Assistance and Training/CMHI National Evaluation
- Technical Assistance & Training: Organizational Cultural Competence
- System of Care Practice Review
- Developing Sustainable Infrastructure in Support of Quality Field-based Practice (SIP)
- Theory-driven Evaluation for the Children’s Mental Health Initiative – Phases VI and VII
- Evaluation of Florida’s Behavioral Health Overlay Services 2009-10
- New Communities System Development
- Dawn Center Primary Prevention Program Evaluation
- Online Learning in Children’s Mental Health
- Profiles of Children with High Utilization of State Inpatient Psychiatric Program
- Utilization of the Most Costly and Intense Mental Health Services Among Out of Home Care
- Developing Systems of Care in African-American Communities Using Natural Supports
- Evaluation of Brevard Parenting with Love and Limits Project
- Graduate Certificate in Children's Mental Health-Distance Learning
- System of Care Practice Review Training (SOCPR)
- Actualizing Empowerment: Developing a Framework for Partnering with Families in System Level Service Planning and Delivery
- Culturally Competent Community-Based Research within Neighborhoods (East Tampa)
- ConnectFamilias Partnership Evaluation
- Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS)/USF Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS) Collaboration
- RAICES: Resources, Advocacy, Integration, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Services
- Community-Defined Evidence Project (CDEP)
- Profile of Youth in Out-of-Home Care Residential Programs (2010-2011)
- System of Care Development
Publications
- “If We’re Going to Change Things, It Has to Be Systemic:” Systems Change in Children's Mental Health
- Arizona’s Children’s System of Care Practice Review: Fiscal Year 2010 Statewide Report
- Mental Health Services Expenditures among Children Placed in Out-of-Home Care
- Increasing Utilization: Strategies for Engaging Culturally/Racially Diverse Children and their Families in Mental Health Services
- ConnectFamilias Partnership Evaluation Reports 2009 & 2010
