While children across all racial and ethnic groups experienced modest declines in any mental health service use (i.e., whether in-person or via telehealth, and across all service settings) during the pandemic (-5%), the decline in mental health service use was higher among Black, Hispanic, and Asian children compared to White children.
The toolkit will enhance your knowledge related to health equity, health inequity, health disparities and social determinants, health literacy, cultural literacy, to address racial and social inequities and support your patients and organizations.
Helping stakeholders identify and implement evidence-based strategies to improve upward economic mobility for those in need.
The toolkit is designed to guide schools through the process of developing comprehensive screening procedures, as well as provide readily available resources to facilitate the implementation of effective behavioral health screening in schools. The information is relevant for community settings.
In this study, use of MI in specialized pediatric consultations did not increase the use of mental health care services among youths with CMCs but did lead to longer patient-physician conversations and lower anxiety scores at 1 year. Additional research is required to determine whether varying scope and duration of MI training for physicians could encourage youths with CMCs to seek counseling and thus improve integrated care models.
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.