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COSP Project Structure

 

Funded by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), the Multi-Site Research Initiative involves seven study sites and a coordinating center. Consumer-Operated Services Programs involved in the study include drop-in centers, education and advocacy training programs, and peer or mutual support programs.

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Coordinating Center

The Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Center is Jean Campbell, PH.D., a mental health consumer researcher, and Director of Program in Consumer Studies & Training at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Responsibilities of Coordinating Center include: (1) planning the multi-site study in collaboration with the Steering Committee and providing overall study coordination, including data management and analysis; (2) designing, implementing, and coordinating the cost-study; (3) monitoring of data quality; (4) monitoring fidelity of interventions at project sites; (5) developing and maintaining a common data repository which contains data elements collected in the common protocol; (6) addressing the cultural issues in the study; and (7) providing technical assistance to the study sites.

Data analysis is conducted by R.O.W. Sciences, Inc. in Rockville, Maryland, as well as by a task force of behavioral scientists and economists. Matthew Johnsen, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Center, is a sociologist on the faculty at the UMass Medical School's Center for Mental Health Services Research.

Government Project Officers

Federal oversight is provided by Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D., federal program director; Crystal Blyler, Ph.D., government project officer; and Neal Brown, M.P.A., chief of the Community Support Program of the Center for Mental Health Services, Drs. McDonel Herr and Blyler are both experienced mental health services researchers responsible for scientific oversight and federal management of the COSP.