Evidence-based Registries and Clearinghouses

As part of the System of Care State Plan, the Interagency Directors Team (IDT) compiled a list of resources for behavioral health providers and consumers. Use the links below to access registries and clearinghouses that provide child and adolescent mental and behavioral health interventions, programs, fact sheets, and other information. Some of the registries list approaches that are evidence-based, also known as best practices, meaning that there have been rigorous studies showing their effectiveness.* Other registries include approaches that are “promising,” which means they have not been studied thoroughly enough to be classified as “evidence-based,” but there have been some studies on their effectiveness. Other approaches fall into neither of these categories, but have been deemed worthy of inclusion by the specific organizations. Often these are classified as “emerging.” Each website will provide more information on their registries, including how they decided to classify approaches and how to best search their databases.

The image below shows where emerging, promising, and best approaches fall in relation to the impact and the quality of evidence on that approach.

*Note: approaches are often categorized as “evidence-based” for particular populations or age ranges, or outcomes; thus there may be less evidence regarding the effectiveness of an approach if it is used with a different population or outcome measure. Additionally, alteration of components of an evidence-based resource may change its effectiveness.

Registries by Multiple Topics and Domains

• Blueprints for Health Youth Development 
• SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (updates discontinued after 12/31/2017)
• Social Programs That Work
• Youth.gov Program Directory

Registries By Sector or Program

• California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse For Child Welfare
• Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Model Programs Guide
• Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness
• Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse

Registries by Condition

• Anxiety
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Conduct Disorder
• Depression
• Effective Child Therapy: Evidence-based Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents (searchable by diagnosis)
• Substance Use Disorders
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center

Additional Resources

These websites list evidence-based resources and information including: toolkits, fact sheets, guidance/guidelines, reviews, screening tools, and research/statistics:

• EBP Resource Center
• Connecticut Clearinghouse
• Healthy People 2020

These websites list resources that are not exclusively evidence-based:

• Child Trends / What Works
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• Society of Clinical Psychology