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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 children.

So, what happens when the two crises intersect? 

Upcoming Learning Community Event! TEAM UP's monthly Special Topics Forum focuses on emerging issues and innovative practices in patient care. We are pleased to announce our March Special Topic Speaker, Sonia Solas, Licensed Mental Health Counselor at South Boston Community Health Center, presenting on “Behind the Scenes at DCF.” 

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 10:00AM-11:00AM on ZOOM

Meeting ID: 950 0598 8817         Passcode: TEAMUP 

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 UMass team will focus on the research with the national perinatal psychiatry programs network. Join us in celebrating this big news and thanking Dr. Sheldrick for the quality of experience and knowledge he brings to TEAM UP!

Don't miss TEAM UP's monthly Special Topic Forum focusing on emerging issues and innovative practices in patient care. We are pleased to announce our February 21, 2023, Special Topic Speakers from The SPARK Center as they introduce their specialized pediatric services. 

Tuesday, February 21, 2023, from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM on Zoom 

Meeting ID: 950 0598 8817               Passcode: TEAMUP

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 across the academic medical center, which ranges across the translational spectrum, from basic science to clinical research to population and community health.  

BBC recently interviewed TEAM UP Evaluation Co-Director, Chris Sheldrick, PhD, with an article focusing on childhood developmental milestones. Reporter Amanda Ruggeri, BBC, highlighted Dr. Sheldrick’s expertise in explaining the importance and complexities of milestones. A topic Dr. Sheldrick is well versed in through his collaborative work with Dr. Ellen Perrin, with whom he helped create the Survey of Well-being of Young Children (www.theSWYC.org), a freely-available comprehensive screening instrument for young children. Read the full article on BBC.com.

Don't miss TEAM UP's monthly Special Topics Forum focuses on emerging issues and innovative practices in patient care. This January, TEAM UP Alum Grant Pike will present on "LGBTQ+ Awareness in Medicine and Behavioral Health."

Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM on Zoom (click link or https://bostonmedicalcenter.zoom.us/j/95005988817?pwd=NFV4a2dyZ1ByOStuSUlUY3ZRU3FDdz09)

Meeting ID: 950 0598 8817               Passcode: TEAMUP

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 child-serving organizations.” The task force highlights TEAM UP for Children as “an example of an initiative that works to increase the capacity of community health centers to deliver trauma-responsive integrated behavioral health care to children and their caregivers.”