2015

Pilot: Model development and initial implementation

The TEAM UP initiative launched with an inaugural cohort of three federally qualified community health centers (FQHC): Codman Square Health Center, The Dimock Center, and Lowell Community Health Center.

2019

Spread: Broader implementation and model growth

TEAM UP launched its second phase, which expanded the initiative to four additional FQHCs: Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, DotHouse Health, New Bedford Community Health, and South Boston Community Health Center.

2024

Scale: Expand reach to ensure equitable access to care

Boston Medical Center launched the TEAM UP Scaling and Sustainability Center with the vision of scaling the TEAM UP model throughout Massachusetts and nationally. TEAM UP is now the standard of care in seven pediatric clinics and will expand to reach 126,000 children in 29 clinics in the next four years.

Cohort 3 Partners

2025

Scale: Growing across Massachusetts and beyond

TEAM UP launched its third cohort, which expanded our reach to include four practices from across Massachusetts: Boston Medical Center Primary Care Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Greater Roslindale Medical and Dental Center, HealthFirst Family Care Center, and Holyoke Health Center.

2026

Scale: Growing across Massachusetts and beyond

TEAM UP plans to launch cohort 4 to continue the scale of the TEAM UP Center’s work across Massachusetts and beyond.

Community Partners

Jesse Parker Williams Foundation

TEAMing UP for Georgia

The TEAM UP Center has partnered with the Jesse Parker Williams Foundation, a private charitable foundation, to work with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in the Atlanta area to provide integrated behavioral health services in pediatric primary care. The project is designed to build on existing investments in youth mental health across the state and expand the capacity of FQHCs to address mental and behavioral health issues within the communities they serve. The Foundation supports highly effective organizations that emphasize preventive, comprehensive health opportunities and enhance access to health services for women and children. The Foundation focuses especially on those serving populations with limited financial means and predominantly in the five-county metropolitan Atlanta area: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton. This project is undertaken with generous support from the Jesse Parker Williams Foundation.

Carmel Hill Fund

Exploring Opportunities to Advance Behavioral Health Services in NYC

Through the generous support of The Carmel Hill Fund, the TEAM UP Center undertook a project to explore opportunities to advance behavioral health services in New York City (NYC). We completed a practice-level needs assessment coupled with a system-level landscape analysis and stakeholder interviews to produce the NYC TEAM UP Roadmap. As a private foundation, The Carmel Hill Fund is focused on helping young people, especially those growing up in vulnerable circumstances, become voracious readers who also have the skills, relationships, nurturing environments, and supports to become emotionally thriving adults. The project was designed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the NYC environment and identify potential opportunities for TEAM UP to contribute to the city’s response to the children’s mental health crisis. A summary of this work is outlined in the NYC TEAM UP Roadmap.

Project EDUCATE

Workforce Development

Project EDUCATE is a collaborative initiative with TEAM UP and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine’s Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine Program to train the next generation of child and adolescent-focused mental health counselors. Led by Carryl Navalta’s Ph.D., a core faculty member, Project EDUCATE allows rising graduates to participate in TEAM UP’s Learning Community and build skills in delivering trauma-informed, culturally responsive care.

If your organization offers internship opportunities for behavioral health care graduates, we invite you to connect with us and explore potential collaborative partnerships that support emerging professionals in the field.

Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island (CTC-RI)

Clinical Training – Community Health Workers

In collaboration with Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island, TEAM UP is providing clinical training and consultation to primary care practices with existing integrated behavioral health services to integrate the Community Health Worker role as part of their model; through this partnership TEAM UP is also providing enhanced support to two practices interested in implementing elements of the TEAM UP model.

TMPEC

Early Childhood

TEAM UP is partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and early childhood experts within the state to advance early childhood integrated care through the Transforming Massachusetts Pediatrics for Early Childhood (TMPEC) initiative. TMPEC, a program funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), aims to build and sustain systems of care to ensure children birth to 5 and their families have access to the full range of services and supports they need, beginning in pediatric primary care. As part of the initiative, TEAM UP is providing clinical training and practice transformation support to practices in implementing early-childhood components of the TEAM UP model.

Healing Together

BRANCH (Building Resilience And Nurturing CHildren)

From 2020 to 2024, TEAM UP partnered with The Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (“the Network”) to implement BRANCH (Building Resilience And Nurturing CHildren) as part of the Healing Together initiative. Healing Together was funded through a Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) Specialized Services for Abused Parents and Their Children Discretionary Grants program with the aim to develop trauma-informed, developmentally and age-appropriate, culturally responsive, and linguistically accessible services for non-abusing parents, children, and youth exposed to family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence (FV/DV) in Vermont. Through this partnership, mental health clinicians and domestic violence advocates received training and consultation in the BRANCH model and early childhood relational care