PEAK: Agitation resources were created to assist hospital and prehospital-based teams, in partnership with patients and families, to support children and youth with agitation—including identifying the etiology and initiating a continuum of care management strategies.
Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kits (PEAKs) are collections of best practice educational resources designed to empower providers across the disciplines, as well as families, advocates, and other stakeholders, to deliver the highest quality of care and support to children in emergency settings.
PMHCA Overarching Program Goal Promote behavioral health integration into pediatric primary care by using telehealth modalities to provide high quality and timely detection, assessment, treatment and referral for children and adolescents, with behavioral health conditions, using evidence-based practices and methods.
This 60 minute webinar with Abigail English, JD, and Rebecca Gudeman, JD, MPA, from the National Center for Youth Law on this webinar providing an overview of HIPAA and FERPA. Using case examples, this webinar addresses common questions, explains the role of state confidentiality and consent laws, and explores best practices in information sharing and confidentiality designed to maximize the benefits of health care programs, consistent with legal requirements.
This 60 minute webinar featuring Dr. Jill Bohnenkamp and Dr. Kathryn Trainor, faculty from the National Center for School Mental Health, describes opportunities and considerations for PMHCA programs exploring expansion into schools. It features practical tips and resources for assessing PMHCA readiness and school and district mental health needs as well as how to offer training and education for school audiences.
This 60-minute webinar, featuring subject matter expert presenters Laura Hurwitz, LCSW; Sarah Rosadini, B.A.; Rebecca Gostlin, LPC; and Petra Steinbuchel, M.D.; explores the benefits of collaboration between PMHCA programs and SBHCs and offers insights into building sustainable partnerships. Viewers will learn valuable lessons from the field and discover how two states, California and Colorado, each at different stages of partnership, are approaching collaboration between their PMHCA programs and SBHCs.
This is a brief two-page document that highlights lessons learned and recommendations for moving forward with collaboration between PMHCAs and SBHCs.
This guide explains what information each law protects, when information can be disclosed, how the laws are similar and different, and how they interact with state privacy laws.
PMHCA programs partnering with SBHCs and/or schools can improve their support and consultation to SBHCs and schools by understanding which confidentiality laws apply to information related to students about whom they are consulting. Depending on the type of information and who initiated and controls it, different federal laws may apply. A critical question is whether the information is subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.
This document describes best practices and opportunities for PMHCA programs to deliver training and education to school and district teams. The playbook provides a series of steps to develop or adapt training and education for school audiences and offers training formats, topics, and audiences.