Developmental milestones help us understand when a child needs help, but meeting them early doesn’t necessarily predict long-term success This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. By Chris Sheldrick, PhD, 6th May 2024 For about 24...
Association of Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers With Utilization and Follow-up Care
Abstract OBJECTIVE To examine the association of a comprehensive MH integration model with health care utilization, psychotropic medication use, and MH follow-up care among Medicaid-enrolled children at FQHCs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This...
Our mental health care worker shortage is taking a toll
MENTAL HEALTH CARE is, like many industries, facing a workforce shortage, as clinicians flee the field in record numbers. But looming alongside that shortage is a second and equally troubling mental health crisis, one that threatens our nation’s...
Chris Sheldrick Discusses Childhood Developmental Milestones with BBC
Developmental milestones are an important medical tool – but is our obsession with them causing unintended harm? By Amanda Ruggeri, 9th January 2023 (BBC) Scroll through parenting feeds on social media, and you'll soon come across so-called milestone cards:...
CNN.com Highlights TEAM UP’s Solution to the Mental Health Crisis in Children
(CNN)- The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near...
Special Report: Adolescent Suicidal Ideation
Screening for Adolescent Suicidal Ideation in TEAM UP Cohort 2 Sites Key Takeaways from Data*: The average percentage of adolescents reporting suicidal ideation at TEAM UP CHCs during well-child visits during the COVID-19 pandemic is more than 2x the national average...
Why we need to support community health workers
Medical visits are rarely straightforward. Add factors such as poverty, chronic stress, complex medical issues, functional impairment, and barriers to material needs, and caring for one’s well-being becomes exponentially more layered and challenging. A community...
Boston Medical Center Tackling the Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes with a tangible end in sight, assessing its aftermath is only beginning. In its wake is a plethora of pressing matters, many of which have been amplified by COVID-19. “A big, bright light is now shining on all these inequities that...
Wait Lists For Children’s Mental Health Services Ballooned During COVID
Early last year, as the coronavirus threat spread, a 9-year-old named Miles turned into a raging boy his parents did not recognize. The family pediatrician referred Miles to a therapist. His mom, Emily Johnson, says her son needed help right away, but the earliest...
How COVID Isolation, Loss And Racism Deepened Crises For Children Of Color
The pandemic is waning, but the mental health crisis for children isn't. And for many children of color, the full impact of the last 15 months — against a backdrop of longstanding systemic racism and inequities — may just be coming into focus. Mahailya Effee, a...
TEAM UP Transformation Model Explained
This document details discrete activities in each domain of the TEAM UP Transformation Model. TEAM UP Model Explained 2021
TEAM UP Transformation Model Explained: CHW Version
This document details discrete activities completed by Community Health Workers (CHWs) in each domain of the TEAM UP Transformation Model. TEAM UP Transformation Model (CHW Version)
TEAM UP: Adapting Integrated Behavioral Health in the Time of Coronavirus
In the face of COVID-19 restrictions, safety-net organizations such as community health centers (CHCs) must find new ways to care for their most vulnerable patients and families. Having previously oriented their care toward in-person appointments, providers and staff...
Overcoming Barriers to Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatrics Through Co-Development
Integrating behavioral health services in pediatric primary care has been identified as a core strategy for closing the worrying treatment gap faced by young people with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other common conditions. Pediatricians and psychiatrists...
BRANCH: Supporting Families to Help Young Children Thrive
Ask any parent with a young child, and they'll tell you how challenging it can be. Tears, tantrums, and exhaustion are all in a day's work — and that's on a good day. Stress levels climb even higher if a child shows signs of developmental delays, emotional problems,...