TDMHDD Services for Children and Youth

Evidence-Based Practices

To further the goal of developing and applying evidence-based practices in Tennessee, Children and Youth Services is focused on program outcomes that will guide planning and practice and improve services to children and youth with mental health disorders.

Evidence-based practices, at a minimum, assess:

• The quality of the evaluation, design and methodology
• The outcomes produced and for whom
• The replication by more than one researcher
• The availability of a manual.

The more criteria the program meets the more grounded in science the program or intervention is thought to be.

For further information regarding current evidence-based practices associated with the TDMHDD Children & Youth Services, please contact Freida Outlaw, DNSc, R.N., APPN, Mental Health Executive Director of the Office of Special Populations & Minority Services.