Web-based Professional Development for SMHPs in Evidence-Based Practices for Attention and Behavior Challenges

1. Title of Project: Web-Based Professional Development for School Mental Health Providers in Evidence-Based Practices for Attention and Behavior Challenges 2. RFA Topic and Goal: Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning, Goal 2 3. Purpose: Development of a web-based professional development program (PD) for school mental health providers to gain the skills needed to implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) for attention and behavior problems. 4. Setting: The research will be conducted in elementary schools within San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). 5. Sample: Participants will include SFUSD school social workers (SSWs), students, parents and teachers. 6. Professional Development to be developed: The Collaborative Life Skills (CLS) program will be developed into a web-based format (CLS-R) with all training and consultation provided remotely via videoconferencing. Includes EBP skill modules for consulting with teachers and parents and working with students directly. 7. Control Condition: N/A 8. Research design and methods: (1)Open Trials and Refinement: CLS-R will be field tested with 4 SSWs delivering the intervention to students, parents, and teachers. Modification and refinement of materials, manuals, and procedures will follow each trial based on questionnaire data and focus groups. Outcomes will evaluate usability, feasability, and acceptability, implementation fidelity, preliminary effects on student outcomes, and post-training sustainability of SSW EBP skill use. (2) Pilot Study: Using a randomized design, we will compare CLS-R and CLS. Six SSWs will receive CLS-R and 6 SSWs will receive CLS. To temporarily conduct study during COVID-19 school closures, we will test feasbility, usability and accesptability of the fully remote CLS parent component. 9. Key measures: Measures of process (training fidelity, attendance), feasibility, usability, and acceptability will be obtained. 10. Data analytic strategy: CLS-R usability and feasibility will focus on qualitative analysis of themes from focus groups, quantitative analyses of rating scales, and descriptive analyses of functionality.