TEAM UP for Children Symposium

TEAM UP for Children Symposium - A half-day conference about integrated behavioral health care for children and families.

Do you do work on integrated behavioral health care for children? Please join us for conversations in three key areas of focus:

• Developing Care Team Roles for Behavioral Health Clinicians, Community Health Workers & Family Partners

• Supporting Early Childhood Mental Health & Enhanced Screening using the Survey of Wellbeing of Young Children (SWYC)

• Clinical Models & Reimbursement Strategies for Integrated Behavioral Health Care

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Symposium Schedule

8:00AM: Continental Breakfast & Check-in

8:30AM: Welcome & Introduction

8:50AM: Panel One: Developing Care Team Roles for Behavioral Health Clinicians, Community Health Workers & Family Partners

9:35AM: Break

9:45AM: Panel Two: Supporting Early Childhood Mental Health & Enhanced Screening Using the SWYC

10:30AM: Break

10:45AM: Panel Three: Clinical Models & Reimbursement Strategies for Integrated Behavioral Health Care

11:30AM: Wrap Up: Sustaining & Disseminating the Work

12:00PM: Lunch & Conversation (Stay and enjoy your lunch until 1:00PM or take your lunch to go.)

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Intended Audience

• Are you interested in learning more about the nuts and bolts of integrated behavioral health care?

• Do you provide any type of child behavioral health services? As a community mental health provider? As an Early Intervention provider? Within the school district?

• Are you part of a community organization or philanthropic agency that supports healthy childhood development?

• Are you working on state or local policies that impact child behavioral health services?

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Panel Descriptions

PANEL ONE

Developing Care Team Roles for Behavioral Health Clinicians, Community Health Workers & Family Partners | Codman Square Health Center

Interested in building a strong interdisciplinary team to successfully address the behavioral health needs of children and families?

Codman Square Health Center will share its experience working as a collaborative team, in boosting the capacity of pediatric primary care to address behavioral health issues. Hear directly from an integrated behavioral health clinician, family partner, and pediatric primary care provider on the development of their respective roles in supporting behavioral health care, and offer your ideas on the training and organizational aspects of building a strong team.

PANEL TWO

Supporting Early Childhood Mental Health & Enhanced Screening using the Survey of Wellbeing of Young Children (SWYC) | Lowell Community Health Center

Thinking about to how to improve the identification of early childhood developmental and social emotional concerns in your setting?

The SWYC is a comprehensive, Massachusetts-approved screening tool that assesses developmental milestones, behavioral/emotional development, and family risk factors, including postpartum depression. Lowell Community Health Center will discuss their experience implementing the SWYC with multi-cultural, multi-lingual families. We will share creening results from the TEAM UP health centers and discuss how the tool has impacted clinical practice.

PANEL THREE

Clinical Models and Reimbursement Strategies for Integrated Care | The Dimock Center

Wondering about how to optimize revenue from integrated behavioral health care in pediatrics?

The Dimock Center will share how they’ve developed their integrated care model with an eye towards long-term sustainability - including specifics on coding and billing, optimizing revenue, and managing provider productivity. We’ll discuss how the TEAM UP health centers have developed mechanisms to track revenue and productivity, and we’ll strategize on how to approach sustainability in the emerging ACO environment.