James Gilmore

TL;DR: Community engagement to build a collaborative approach to implementing depression QI across diverse programs was more effective than resources for services for individual programs in improving mental HRQL, physical activity and homelessness risk factors, and shifted utilization away from hospitalizations and specialty medication visits toward primary care and other sectors.

TL;DR: Although most participants had contact with primary care, most depression services occurred outside of primary care settings, emphasizing the need to coordinate and support the quality of community-based services across diverse community settings.

TL;DR: Community Partners in Care is the first randomized U.S. study of the added value of CEP beyond more traditional expert assistance to individual programs and the first depression collaborative care study to span the health care and social community sectors.

TL;DR: CEP may be an effective strategy to promote staff participation in depression care improvement efforts in underresourced communities and mean training hours were greater among CEP programs versus RS programs for any type of training, except medication management.