COVID-19
Mental Health
Education Pathway
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Community Pediatrics
Children with Chronic Conditions
School and Community Health
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
General Pediatrics
Cross-Disciplinary Pathway
Adolescent Medicine
Michael Scharf
Psychiatry and Pediatrics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, United States
Laura Shipley, MD
Vice Chair Population and Behavioral Health
Pediatrics
University of Rochester Department of Pediatrics
Pittsford, New York, United States
Cori Green, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
General Academic Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York, United States
LeKeyah Wilson, MD
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Rochester Regional Health
Penfield, New York, United States
Linda Alpert-Gillis, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics & Clinical Nursing
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Rochester, New York, United States
Melissa Heatly, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, United States
Elizabeth Wallis, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Pediatrics
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Escalating behavioral health challenges and diagnoses across all pediatric age groups and populations constitute a crisis in health care that requires inter-professional collaboration and innovation. While national statistics indicate one in five children suffer from a mental health issue, the practical experiences of primary and specialty care pediatric providers suggests that over 40% of patient visits have a primary or secondary behavioral health concern. Anxiety, depression and trauma in children and youth has escalated even further this year, precipitated by the isolation, loss of social supports, family stress and growing social determinants risks related to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The reality of long waiting lists for available services and access to behavioral health practitioners, along with limited access currently to school supports for many children further exacerbates the problem and points to the imminent need to strengthen preventive and primary care treatment approaches to help our children, youth, and families. While a lack of access to acute and ongoing mental health services is a reality that impacts children and families across our entire nation, regardless of socio-economic and regional variation, there are certain populations who face additional barriers. Such barriers include high poverty rates, elevated exposure to violence and trauma, substance abuse, and inconsistent communication between systems that serve children who are most marginalized and at the highest risk. While children’s behavioral health workforce and systematic service expansion will be necessary to adequately address the needs, the issues at play are complex and on such a scale that we cannot simply “treat our way out” of this crisis through expansion of current services alone. Upstream approaches to prevention and universal screening in primary care and community settings, integration of behavioral health services, family support, and connection to community-based resources and education settings, along with enhanced training for child health professionals at all levels, should be leveraged to improve child behavioral health and mental wellness.
The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to promote new opportunities for collaboration, research, training and networking across multiple disciplines focused on pediatric behavioral health.
For this first SIG session, the presenters will briefly outline common key components to successful behavioral health models including prevention and universal screening in primary care and community settings, integrated and aligned primary and specialty care behavioral health services, connection to care management and coordination with behavioral health services in childcare, early education settings and schools, and the promotion of protective factors and skills building for children and families. Additionally, presenters will engage attendees in dialogue around inter-professional training opportunities and education models for practicing primary care providers and pediatric specialists.
This inaugural Behavioral Health SIG will focus on challenges and opportunities in addressing the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents. Participants should come prepared to speak for 2 to 3 minutes about best practices or innovative approaches from their own programs and experiences. The 3 breakout groups will foster conversations around 1) Cross-Sector Community Collaboration (connecting schools, primary care and behavioral health teams), 2) Behavioral Health Integration Models in Primary and Specialty Care, and 3) Training and Support Models to Expand the Scope of Practice for Primary Care Providers
Agenda
1:00 pm I Welcome and Introductions - LJ Shipley, Co-Chair
1:15 pm I Mike Scharf, Co Chair
1:30 pm I Attendees split into 3 Breakout rooms -presenters/facilitators in each
2:00 pm I Switch to next breakout room
2:30 pm I Return to full group/Report out and Next Steps
Co-Chairs: Michael Scharf, MD (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) and Dr. Laura Jean Shipley, MD (Academic/Primary Care Pediatrics)
Faculty:
Cori Green, MD, MS, Weil Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital (Academic/Primary Care Pediatrics)
Elizabeth Wallis, MD, MS Medical University of South Carolina (Adolescent Medicine) URMC
Faculty Facilitators: LeKeyah Wilson MD (Adolescent Medicine/School Health),
Linda Alpert-Gillis, PhD,
Melissa Heatley, PhD
Allison Stiles, PhD (Child Psychology)
Escalating behavioral health challenges and diagnoses across all pediatric age groups and populations constitute a crisis in health care that requires inter-professional collaboration and innovation. While national statistics indicate one in five children suffer from a mental health issue, the practical experiences of primary and specialty care pediatric providers suggests that over 40% of patient visits have a primary or secondary behavioral health concern. Anxiety, depression and trauma in children and youth has escalated even further this year, precipitated by the isolation, loss of social supports, family stress and growing social determinants risks related to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The reality of long waiting lists for available services and access to behavioral health practitioners, along with limited access currently to school supports for many children further exacerbates the problem and points to the imminent need to strengthen preventive and primary care treatment approaches to help our children, youth, and families.
While a lack of access to acute and ongoing mental health services is a reality that impacts children and families across our entire nation, regardless of socio-economic and regional variation, there are certain populations who face additional barriers. Such barriers include high poverty rates, elevated exposure to violence and trauma, substance abuse, and inconsistent communication between systems that serve children who are most marginalized and at the highest risk.
While children’s behavioral health workforce and systematic service expansion will be necessary to adequately address the needs, the issues at play are complex and on such a scale that we cannot simply “treat our way out” of this crisis through expansion of current services alone. Upstream approaches to prevention and universal screening in primary care and community settings, integration of behavioral health services, family support, and connection to community-based resources and education settings, along with enhanced training for child health professionals at all levels, should be leveraged to improve child behavioral health and mental wellness.
The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to promote new opportunities for collaboration, research, training and networking across multiple disciplines focused on pediatric behavioral health.
For this first SIG session, the presenters will briefly outline common key components to successful behavioral health models including prevention and universal screening in primary care and community settings, integrated and aligned primary and specialty care behavioral health services, connection to care management and coordination with behavioral health services in childcare, early education settings and schools, and the promotion of protective factors and skills building for children and families. Additionally, presenters will engage attendees in dialogue around inter-professional training opportunities and education models for practicing primary care providers and pediatric specialists.
This inaugural Behavioral Health SIG will focus on challenges and opportunities in addressing the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents. Participants should come prepared to speak for 2 to 3 minutes about best practices or innovative approaches from their own programs and experiences.
The 3 breakout groups will foster conversations around 1) Cross-Sector Community Collaboration (connecting schools, primary care and behavioral health teams), 2) Behavioral Health Integration Models in Primary and Specialty Care, and 3) Training and Support Models to Expand the Scope of Practice for Primary Care Providers
Agenda
1:00 pm I Welcome and Introductions - LJ Shipley, Co-Chair
1:15 pm I Mike Scharf, Co Chair
1:30 pm I Attendees split into 3 Breakout rooms -presenters/facilitators in each
2:00 pm I Switch to next breakout room
2:30 pm I Return to full group/Report out and Next Steps
Co-Chairs: Michael Scharf, MD (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) and Dr. Laura Jean Shipley, MD (Academic/Primary Care Pediatrics)
Faculty:
Cori Green, MD, MS, Weil Cornell Medicine/NY Presbyterian Hospital (Academic/Primary Care Pediatrics)
Elizabeth Wallis, MD, MS Medical University of South Carolina (Adolescent Medicine) URMC
Faculty Facilitators: LeKeyah Wilson MD (Adolescent Medicine/School Health),
Linda Alpert-Gillis, PhD,
Melissa Heatley, PhD
Allison Stiles, PhD (Child Psychology)
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