Mental health facilitator service implementation in Mexico: a community mental health strategy

ABSTRACT

NBCC’s Mental Health Facilitator (MHF) program is designed to increases service accessibility by training paraprofessionals. Interviews from community stakeholders in Mexico were analyzed with Consensual Qualitative Research to explore the multi-year impacts of MHF. Positive findings corroborate prior research from other countries, however this sample highlights long-term barriers to implementation. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Mental health providers
• Mental Health Facilitator
• cross-cultural training
• accessibility of services
• and consensual qualitative research

Disclosure statement

This evaluation of the MHF program was commissioned by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). The dataset was obtained by the fourth author in 2012-2013 under a grant awarded by the NBCC Foundation, and then subsequently analyzed by the first three authors. While the fifth author provided feedback and input on this final manuscript on behalf of NBCC, final editorial control was exercised by the first author as an independent researcher.

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Funding

This research was financially supported by the NBCC Foundation. The authors gratefully thank Alexa Adamo for her thoughtful feedback and energetic copy editing.