About | TEAM UP for Children

Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care Universally in Pediatrics

Why TEAM UP?

1 out of 5

children experience a mental health issue

11

years average delay in receiving proper diagnosis

20%

of children with mental health issues receive treatment from a mental health professional

Our Mission

TEAM UP is grounded in the belief that access to services to promote behavioral health and family strengthening is a social justice issue.

The initiative seeks to meet the needs of community members that have experienced multiple challenges in their home countries or local communities, from trauma and racism to poverty and violence.

It builds upon the strength of primary care practices as anchoring, culturally competent institutions that share this mission, and that have come together to develop a sustainable, adaptable, and replicable model of integrated health care.

TEAM UP has created a sustainable, adaptable, and replicable model that strengthens pediatric primary care for all.

Our Vision

Our vision is all children and families will live within a community that fosters and promotes physical and behavioral health, wellness, and resilience.

The future is integrating mental health, wellbeing, therapeutic, and social-emotional understanding into all of our infrastructures – into schools, medical care, workplaces, and all the spaces we share together. TEAM UP is creating a sustainable behavioral health care delivery model that will mediate stress and burnout and ultimately allow us to care for each other.

%

of practices have successfully implemented model the TEAM UP Model™

TEAM UP improves access to evidence-informed, integrated pediatric behavioral health care in structurally marginalized communities.

TEAM UP spans promotion, prevention, and treatment for behavioral health issues; it serves children from birth through young adulthood; and has demonstrated positive outcomes on children and families, the clinical workforce, and system-wide utilization and cost.