TEAM UP Center Partners with Jesse Parker Williams Foundation
The TEAM UP Scaling and Sustainability Center (TEAM UP Center) proudly announces our new partnership with the Jesse Parker Williams Foundation. As a private charitable foundation, 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 serving those populations with limited financial means and predominantly in the five-county metropolitan Atlanta area: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton.
With this new partnership, the TEAM UP Center will 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. This project is undertaken with generous support from the Jesse Parker Williams Foundation.
“Children and youth – particularly in structurally marginalized communities – face significant barriers in accessing mental health services, which has only worsened during the current mental health crisis,” said Anita Morris, MSN, executive director of TEAM UP Center. “This investment by the Jesse Parker Williams Foundation will significantly enhance our ability to support FQHCs in the Atlanta-metro environment and ultimately reach more children and youth to ensure equitable access to care.”