title: Understanding Latino Parents' Child Mental Health Literacy: Todos a bordo/All Aboard.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article describes Phase 1 of a pilot that aims to develop, implement, and test an intervention to educate and simultaneously engage highly stressed Latino parents in child mental health services. A team of Spanish-speaking academic and community co-investigators developed the intervention using a community-based participatory research approach and qualitative methods.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through focus groups, the team identified parents' knowledge gaps and their health communication preferences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Latino parents from urban communities need and welcome child mental health literacy interventions that integrate printed materials with videos, preferably in their native language, combined with guidance from professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A 3-minute video in Spanish that integrates education entertainment strategies and a culturally relevant format was produced as part of the intervention to educate and simultaneously engage highly stressed Latino parents in child mental health care. It is anticipated that the intervention will positively impact service use among this group.
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Umpierre
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Laura V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Aida
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ortiz
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paulino
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Anita Rivera
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kranes
authors.affiliation: New York University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: McKay
keywords: Hispanic Latino parents; collaborative video production; highly stressed families; mental health literacy