University of Washington ALACRITY Center

The University of Washington ALACRITY Center (UWAC) is an NIMH funded multidisciplinary center that strives to address critical problems in the implementation of evidence-based psychosocial interventions (EBPIs) for mild to moderate mental health problems, particularly in under-served communities and primary care medicine settings. UWAC assembles expertise from numerous schools and departments within the University of Washington including the School of Social Work, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Department of Communications. The ultimate goal of the UWAC is to stimulate research based on the Discover, Develop, Build, and Test (DDBT) framework that can be used to develop clinical policy or programs that improve clinician capacity, usability, and sustained quality of EBPIs, particularly in primary care medicine or other integrated settings.