Ngo, Victoria K., et al. “Mental Health Concerns During COVID-19: An Observational Study Among a Predominantly Black Community in New York City.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Apr. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-024-01988-0. Full Article: View here Project: Multisector Task...

Building off of the Aligning Delivery and Financing Systems to Prevent Adverse Child Experiences in St. Louis study, Washington University in St. Louis will study the impact of systemic racism on child mental healthcare and mental health equity. African-American families are disproportionately affected by barriers to preventative services leading to worsening socio-emotional, mental health, and physical health outcomes. This is especially true in St. Louis, Missouri, where a profound history of oppression, systemic racism, and mistrust have exacerbated mental health challenges.

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, tests the feasibility of an integrated system of medical, social and public health programming designed to improve outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The study organizes community-engaged consensus building sessions with stakeholders from medical, social and public health systems and with youth experiencing homelessness in order to co-create strategies for system alignment, including multi-sector data integration, shared clinical practice guidelines, and co-location of health and social services for youth experiencing homelessness.

This study, funded as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Systems for Action research program, evaluates the feasibility of a multi-sector “Functional Zero” approach to reducing homelessness among fathers in Atlanta, with a focus on Black fathers who are disproportionately represented among homeless populations. The study builds from an existing multi-sector coalition of leaders from medical, social and public health sectors who have formed Fathers Matter ATL to address the unmet health and social needs of homeless fathers, including forms of structural racism that limit the availability of housing options for homeless men with dependent children.

The Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH) launched Targeted Research Funding grants to fund innovative systems alignment approaches that engages partners from the medical, public health, and social services sectors in collaborative efforts to dismantle structural and systemic racism and improve...

Please email the Systems for Action team at systemsforaction@cuanschutz.edu to request the NALSYS dataset. You will need to provide your IRB determination and we request that you sign a Data Use Agreement form (to be provided by the Systems for Action team).

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