The CMHPSR researches the organization, financing, and management structure of mental health care systems and the delivery of mental health services and provides consultation and technical support to those individuals and programs involved in implementing system change. The Center has attempted to use the results of its research and evaluation efforts to inform the decision making of public policy makers at local, state, and national levels.
The Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health seeks to improve the outcomes of public mental health programs and promote the integration of research, policy and practice in public mental health.
(CSMHPS). The Center was established in 1996 to increase the development of high-quality social work research in an active program of public mental health research. It promotes research for children and adults with major mental illness at both the systems and intervention level with particular emphasis on consumer centered services.
Paints a picture of psychiatric deinstitutionalization using primarily Southwestern Ontario as a "natural laboratory". Multi-disciplinary research program.
OSPPP provides advice and guidance to the NIMH Director and senior Institute staff concerning science policy; strategic planning; program planning and evaluation; other special crosscutting science programs; knowledge exchange; and technology and information transfer.
Research group offering services - applied research, policy analysis, evaluation studies, knowledge development and application, and technical assistance - with a primary focus on mental health services.
