About

Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics

Why TEAM UP for Children?

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

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, our medical care, our workplaces, and all the spaces that we share together. TEAM UP is creating a sustainable behavioral health care delivery model that will mediate stress and burn out and ultimately, allow us to take care of each other.

%

of practices have successfully implemented model the TEAM UP Model™

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