National Guidelines for Child and Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Care
Describes a crisis response system that both responds effectively to all youth in crisis and prevents emotional and behavioral health needs from escalating to crisis.
Describes a crisis response system that both responds effectively to all youth in crisis and prevents emotional and behavioral health needs from escalating to crisis.
This resource promotes the importance of starting to reorient our priorities to create accessible space in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities for seeking and giving assistance, to start building a culture that normalizes and promotes youth mental health care.
The MCPAP for Moms Pediatric Toolkit provides information to support pediatric providers as they detect and screen for mental health concerns. The toolkit also includes MCPAP for Moms: A Primer for Massachusetts Pediatric Providers
Women’s health nurse practitioners and other clinicians who provide primary care for adolescents can improve screening, identification, and treatment of anxiety and depression using strategies outlined in this resource.
Providers Clinical Support System provides peer-to-peer mentoring and an “ask a clinical question” service via email. This isn’t specific to pediatrics but may be of interest to those who would want an email provider to provider consult – this might be a less expensive way to do the provider-to-provider consults.
This is a free national warmline for HIV/AIDS, Hep C and substance abuse. Basecamp suggest this might be an opportunity for the states who do not have a warmline to experience free warmline consults. Basecamp also notes that there was no psychiatrist on the warmline team, and they were searching for one however the substance abuse warmline team has many team members (MDs. APRNs, PharmDs). The PharmD on the team has a specific interest in child psychiatry and substance abuse treatment for youth – works for State of California.
Offspring exposed to prenatal maternal depression (PMD) are vulnerable to depression across their lifespan.
This presentation reviews the importance and prevalence of perinatal depression, the role of pediatric and obstetric PCPs in detection, referral, and treatment, and the issues about lactation and PPD treatment.
This safety card for women can be distributed by perinatal health care providers to patients. The card outlines questions women may ask themselves about their relationships, birth control use and parenting, while offering supportive messages and referrals to national support services for help. Available in English and Spanish.
This report describes (1) available information on the behavioral health workforce; (2) key barriers to and incentives for recruiting and retaining behavioral health provider; and (3) HHS agencies' actions to support recruiting and retaining behavioral health providers.