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Although school-based mental health screening and treatment programs have been proposed as a viable means of reaching youth with unmet mental health needs, no previous reports have attempted to comprehensively document the costs of such programs. The purposes of this report are (1) to estimate the cost of a school-based mental health screening and...
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... al- locating to the treatment program a portion of the psychiatrists' salaries, fringe benefits, and associated costs. The portion of these resources allocated to The treatment and screening programs were funded through a collaborative effort between the school, a foundation, a nearby teaching hospi- tal/university, and a local community agency (Fig. 1). The primary source of revenue for the screening and treatment programs was private donation fund- ing from a foundation. These funds were awarded to two pass-through entities, a local teaching hospi- tal/university and a not-for-profit community ...
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In order to efficiently allocate scarce prevention resources, policymakers need information about the economic costs of school-based substance use prevention programs. The objective of this paper is to outline economic cost analysis methods and demonstrate their applicability to school-based prevention programs. As an example, the paper focuses on estimating the economic cost of ALPHA, an intensive school-based substance use prevention program. The cost of ALPHA is compared to the costs of 3 elementary school programs that were alternatives to ALPHA. We collected cost information for 3 years, using a cost questionnaire that was completed by program and school budget officers and school principals. The program costs obtained from these sources were modified to conform to well-established economic cost analysis principles.
