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...
TEAM UP is Hiring – Clinical Training Specialist
APPLY>> Position: Clinical Training Specialist, Pediatrics Research Location: Boston, MA Schedule: 20 hours per week, Hybrid ABOUT BMC: At Boston Medical Center (BMC), our diverse staff works together for one goal — to provide...
Special Topic Forum – Multicultural Experiences and Working with Diverse Populations
Join us for the next Special Topic Forum with Adriano Cabral, Executive Director of Inclusion Family Counseling Center. Adriano will share his insights on “Multicultural Experiences and Working with Diverse Populations.” Jan. 16, 2024 10:00AM Zoom ...
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...
TEAM UP presents at the 2021 DREAM IPC Conference
Pediatric Provider and Staff Burnout in Community Health Centers (CHCs) Poster→ Background: Community Health Centers (CHCs) are integral in caring for individuals who are low income and come from structurally marginalized communities Provider burnout is characterized...
Why we need to support community health workers
Medical visits are rarely straightforward. Add factors such as poverty, chronic stress, complex medical issues, functional impairment, and barriers to material needs, and caring for one’s well-being becomes exponentially more layered and challenging. A community...
Boston Medical Center Tackling the Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes with a tangible end in sight, assessing its aftermath is only beginning. In its wake is a plethora of pressing matters, many of which have been amplified by COVID-19. “A big, bright light is now shining on all these inequities that...
Wait Lists For Children’s Mental Health Services Ballooned During COVID
Early last year, as the coronavirus threat spread, a 9-year-old named Miles turned into a raging boy his parents did not recognize. The family pediatrician referred Miles to a therapist. His mom, Emily Johnson, says her son needed help right away, but the earliest...
How COVID Isolation, Loss And Racism Deepened Crises For Children Of Color
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...
TEAM UP Transformation Model Explained
This document details discrete activities in each domain of the TEAM UP Transformation Model. TEAM UP Model Explained 2021
Community Health Worker Film shared at APHA Public Health Film Festival
The 2020 American Public Health Association's Public Health Film Festival showcased TEAM UP's film, "Filling the Gaps: Community Health Workers Improve Healthcare Systems by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health," written, produced, and directed by Sonia...
Branch Report
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...