Partners

Partnering for Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health Care

Pilot: Model development and initial implementation

Spread: Broader implementation and model growth

Cohort 2: 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.

Our Legacy Partners

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.

Scale: Growing across Massachusetts and beyond

Cohort 3: 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.

Scale: Growing across Massachusetts and beyond

Cohort 4: TEAM UP launched its fourth cohort, which added three practices from across Massachusetts were chosen for their strong commitment to building sustainable, team-based behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care: Community Health Center of Franklin County, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Charles River Community Health.

Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in New York City

TEAMS First NYC: TEAM UP launches TEAMS First NYC—a pediatric behavioral health initiative that will reach more than 62,000 children across New York City (NYC). TEAM UP will work with five pediatric practices across seven locations in Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx:

• Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
• NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens
• Pediatrics 2000
• Urban Health Plan

The initiative is supported through braided funding from both The Carmel Hill Fund and Robin Hood, and builds upon strong partnerships with locally based organizations including Healthfirst, NYC REACH, NYC Health + Hospitals, Project TEACH, and The Community Health Worker Institute at Montefiore Einstein.

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 

With support from The Carmel Hill Fund, the TEAM UP Center completed a landscape analysis that explored opportunities to advance behavioral health services in New York City (NYC). This yearlong assessment culminated in the NYC TEAM UP Roadmap that summarizes opportunities to advance integrated behavioral health services across NYC’s five broughs. As a response to the Roadmap and in collaboration with several local partners, the TEAMS First NYC initiative was formed to bring integrated behavioral health services across seven practices and serving over 60,000 children. 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.

Robin Hood

Expand Access to Behavioral Health Care in NYC 

The TEAM UP Center has partnered with Robin Hood to expand TEAMS First NYC, a multi-year initiative bringing integrated behavioral health care to pediatric practices across New York City (NYC). Robin Hood partners with Healthfirst on an early childhood initiative within TEAMS First NYC, embedding community health workers in pediatric primary care practices to serve families with young children. This new funding will support inclusion of Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in the initiative across two pediatric locations in Manhattan and Queens that together serve over 20,000 children.

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