The Organizational Social Context of Mental Health Medicaid Waiver Programs with Family Support Services: Implications for Research and Practice

摘要: Peer family support specialists (FSS) are parents with practical experience in navigating children’s mental health care systems who provide support, advocacy, and guidance to the families of children need services. Their training differ from those formally trained clinicians, creating potential conflicts priorities values between FSS clinicians. We hypothesized that these differences could negatively affect organizational cultures climates clinics employ both lower job satisfaction commitment FSS. The Organizational Social Context measure was administered on site 209 clinicians 21 programs New York State. study compared organizational-level culture climate profiles national norms for child clinics, assessed individual-level as a function (FSS vs. clinician) other characteristics, tested whether attitudes were differentially associated climate. not significantly different norms. Individual-level unrelated position or characteristics except Both FSS’ clinicians’ work similarly