The pandemic is waning, but the mental health crisis for children isn't. And for many children of color, the full impact of the last 15 months — against a backdrop of longstanding systemic racism and inequities — may just be coming into focus. Mahailya Effee, a...
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TEAM UP Transformation Model Explained
This document details discrete activities in each domain of the TEAM UP Transformation Model. TEAM UP Model Explained 2021
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: 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...
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...