BRANCH (Building Resilience And Nurturing CHildren) is a brief trauma-informed, extended screening and assessment intervention developed for integrated behavioral health clinicians (BHCs) who practice in primary care pediatric settings. The impetus for developing...
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TEAM UP presents at the AcademyHealth 2020 Annual Research Meeting
Members of the TEAM UP team presented the following bodies of work, which include two poster presentations and the abstract of a pre-recorded presentation. Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics (TEAM UP): Co-creation and...
TEAM UP Transformation Model Explained: CHW Version
This document details discrete activities completed by Community Health Workers (CHWs) in each domain of the TEAM UP Transformation Model. TEAM UP Transformation Model (CHW Version)
TEAM UP Statement
In the last several weeks, we have witnessed the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick. These deaths are not isolated incidents, but rather a continuation of the racist violence perpetuated against Black...
TEAM UP: Adapting Integrated Behavioral Health in the Time of Coronavirus
In the face of COVID-19 restrictions, safety-net organizations such as community health centers (CHCs) must find new ways to care for their most vulnerable patients and families. Having previously oriented their care toward in-person appointments, providers and staff...
TEAM UP for Children Initiative Adds Four Massachusetts Health Centers to its Pediatric Behavioral Health Program
1 in 4 children using Massachusetts federally-qualified health centerswill benefit from important transformational model to better integrate behavioral health services BOSTON, December 17, 2019 – TEAM UP for Children (Transforming and Expanding Access to...
Overcoming Barriers to Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatrics Through Co-Development
Integrating behavioral health services in pediatric primary care has been identified as a core strategy for closing the worrying treatment gap faced by young people with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other common conditions. Pediatricians and psychiatrists...
BRANCH: Supporting Families to Help Young Children Thrive
Ask any parent with a young child, and they'll tell you how challenging it can be. Tears, tantrums, and exhaustion are all in a day's work — and that's on a good day. Stress levels climb even higher if a child shows signs of developmental delays, emotional problems,...
Integrated Behavioral Health in Pediatric Primary Care: ‘You’re Treating the Kid, but the Family Is the System’
Only about 20% of the children in the United States who experience behavioral health issues receive specialized care, and it's not hard to understand why. Thanks to a nationwide shortage of providers and mazelike insurance plans, a simple referral from...