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Michigan
Outcome Identification Project
In general, focus group participants across all stakeholder groups had no difficulty answering the focus group questions. Conversations were often very lively and easily filled the 2.5 hours allotted.
The summary findings of the Michigan Outcome Identification Project are detailed on tables which display stakeholder responses to the research question in relation to one another and in total. Three tables have resulted from the analysis of the frequency of responses to each of the research questions. These tables are provided in three appendices to this report. Appendix 1 summarizes findings regarding who the public children's mental health system should serve; Appendix 2 summarizes what outcomes the public mental health system should achieve; and Appendix 3 summarizes the system- and program-level changes required in order to achieve the identified outcomes. The content of these appendices is summarized in Table 4. The appendices begin on page 33.
The stakeholder response tables provided in Appendices 1 through 3 present an overview of how stakeholder groups responded to the research questions by detailing information about frequency of a given response within and across stakeholder groups. When reading the tables in the appendices, it should be noted that stakeholders have been arranged in three categories across the top of the tables: families, stakeholders within mental health, and stakeholders outside of mental health. This arrangement allows the comparison of how these broad groupings of stakeholders responded to the specific research question as well as analysis of how sub-groupings within each broader category can be compared. Each of the broad groupings of stakeholders contains sub-groupings of participants providing for the comparison of responses within a particular stakeholder group. These sub-groupings are shown in Table 5.
The frequency counts which appear in the appendices indicate how often a particular response surfaced during focus group discussions. In Appendix 1, Table B for example, a reader can determine that children in need of early intervention were identified as a priority population for children's mental health 43 times across all focus group sessions. This value means that there were 43 total occurrences of the idea that children in need of early intervention should be considered a priority population for children's mental health services during the focus group sessions. The appendices also provide readers with information about the frequency with which this topic arose in individual stakeholder group sessions.
The findings for the Michigan Outcome Identification Project will be discussed below according to the three research domains: the target populations for children's mental health, outcomes for children's mental health, and system- and program- level changes needed to accomplish the identified outcomes. For the first two research domains, the focus group data will be discussed in the context of broad categories of results. This will be followed by a discussion of the three top priorities which emerged within these broad categories. Responses in the Changes domain will be discussed according to the broad categories of system- and program-level changes.
A summary table has been provided for each of these domains in the text of this report as well as the detailed stakeholder response tables provided in the appendices. For each response category, stakeholder responses which clearly emerged as the most frequently mentioned are shown. Details of responses not included on the summary tables may be found in the appendices.
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