Boston University School of Public Health News
New TEAM UP Center Will Extend Behavioral Health Services to 126,000 Children in Massachusetts (Boston University School of Public Health News) - July 12, 2024 - The new TEAM UP Scaling and Sustainability Center will lead an expansion of the Boston Medical...
Announcing the TEAM UP Scaling and Sustainability Center
TEAM UP is proud to announce that Boston Medical Center is launching the Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics (TEAM UP) Scaling and Sustainability Center to combat the rising mental health crisis among children. BMC’s TEAM UP,...
Policy Brief: Mental Health Screening and Beyond: Recommendation for Expansion
TEAM UP for Children applauds MassHealth's innovative policy changes that focus on supporting comprehensive clinical services for children and families, including behavioral health services. In the spirit of our continued collaboration in the shared goal of ensuring...
Special Topic Forum – Supporting Survivors: How to Use BARCC’s SEECK Model and Resources
Join us for our next SPECIAL TOPIC FORUM, “Supporting Survivors: How to Use BARCC’s SEECK Model and Resources,” with Megan Mulcahy, Volunteer Services Manager at Boston Area Rape Crisis Center March 19, 2024, 10:00AM ZOOM Megan ensures that all of BARCC’s...
Policy Brief: Mental Health Screening and Beyond: Recommendation for Expansion
TEAM UP for Children applauds MassHealth's innovative policy changes that focus on supporting comprehensive clinical services for children and families, including behavioral health services. In the spirit of our continued...
Special Topic Forum – Early Psychosis: Symptoms, Identification, and Treatment
Join us for our next Special Topic Forum with Emily Gagen, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist, Brookline Community Mental Health Center. Emily will share her insights on “Early Psychosis: Symptoms, Identification, and Treatment.” Feb 20, 2024...
Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care
Abstract OBJECTIVE To examine the association of a comprehensive MH integration model with health care utilization, psychotropic medication use, and MH follow-up care among Medicaid-enrolled children at FQHCs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This...
Our mental health care worker shortage is taking a toll
MENTAL HEALTH CARE is, like many industries, facing a workforce shortage, as clinicians flee the field in record numbers. But looming alongside that shortage is a second and equally troubling mental health crisis, one that threatens our nation’s...
Chris Sheldrick Expands Work with TEAM UP
Good news! Chris Sheldrick, PhD, TEAM UP Evaluation Co-Director, will increase his efforts with TEAM UP as he expands his reach by joining the Department of Psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School. Dr. Sheldrick's work with the...
Megan Bair-Merritt, MD, MCSE named BMC’s first Chief Scientific Officer
TEAM UP is excited to announce that Megan H. Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE, TEAM UP's Evaluation Co-Director, has been named Boston Medical Center's (BMC) first Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Dr. Bair-Merritt will provide strategic leadership for BMC's research efforts...
Chris Sheldrick Discusses Childhood Developmental Milestones with BBC
Developmental milestones are an important medical tool – but is our obsession with them causing unintended harm? By Amanda Ruggeri, 9th January 2023 (BBC) Scroll through parenting feeds on social media, and you'll soon come across so-called milestone cards:...
Childhood Trauma Task Force Annual Report Features TEAM UP for Children
The Childhood Trauma Task Force (CTTF) of the Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) recently issued their annual report, "Identifying Childhood Trauma: Recommendations on trauma identification practices in...
CNN.com Highlights TEAM UP’s Solution to the Mental Health Crisis in Children
(CNN)- The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near...
TEAM UP By the Numbers
TEAM UP By the Numbers — June 2017 to February 2022 A comprehensive snapshot of all of the work that has been accomplished through the initiatives outlined in TEAM UP for Children Model. We would like to give special thank you to the 7 Federally Qualified Community...
TEAM UP Training Event: Who Gets Left Out? Racial Inequities that Exist in Mental Health Treatment and Diagnosis
Who Gets Left Out? Racial Inequities that Exist in Mental Health Treatment and Diagnosis This training was completed on April 26, 2022 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm over Zoom. This training was designed to enable attendees to: Understand the historical...
CSSP Releases TEAM UP Early Learning Report
Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care in Urban Pediatrics: Early Learning Report The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is a national, non-profit organization that works to achieve a racially, economically, and socially just society in...
BMC Press Release: TEAM UP Research Published in Pediatrics
Integrating Behavioral Health in Community Based Primary Care Improves Access and Treatment for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Children BOSTON - New research led by Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Public Health found that a model of...
Special Report: Adolescent Suicidal Ideation
Screening for Adolescent Suicidal Ideation in TEAM UP Cohort 2 Sites Key Takeaways from Data*: The average percentage of adolescents reporting suicidal ideation at TEAM UP CHCs during well-child visits during the COVID-19 pandemic is more than 2x the national average...