Welcome to The Penn Collaborative for CBT and Implementation Science
The Penn Collaborative for CBT and Implementation Science (Penn Collaborative) emphasizes community-partnered science and technology to improve access to high-quality mental healthcare for all.
The Penn Collaborative's work is based on a foundation of two complementary priorities:
- Implementation partnerships focused on training community mental health providers including therapists, milieu staff, peer support specialists, and others to deliver and sustain CBT and other evidence-based practices. The Penn Collaborative has developed a systematic implementation process to engage providers and organizations, understand the mission and infrastructure of their setting, and provide training and sustainability supports that are responsive to the identities, needs, and strengths of the communities they serve.
- Research that informs the development, evaluation and dissemination of strategies related to best practices in implementation of evidence-based mental health practices. Areas of emphasis include artificial intelligence-based tools to measure fidelity and scale-up supervision, understanding and developing culturally responsive care, leveraging behavioral economics to enhance treatment delivery, tools to support sustainability of practices, and more.
