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How's Your Child's Mental Health?

Order a free supply of How's Your Child's Mental Health? brochures in English and/or in Spanish. PCC Plan providers, click here to order. All others click here to order.

Suicide Prevention Resources

MCPAP is distributing suicide prevention resources for primary care clinicians. We thank the Suicide Prevention Resource Center for providing these resources!

If you are a MCPAP-enrolled MCPAP primary care clinician and would like a copy of a Pocket Guide for Primary Care Professionals: Asessment and Interventions with Potentially Suicidal Patients or a copy of a Safety Planning Guide: A Quick Guide for Clinicians,, contact your regional MCPAP team.

Access the Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Rural Primary Care, click here.

View an American Association of Suicidality webinar titled Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk in Primary Care, Click here. CME credit is available. Cost is $40.

 
FEATURES

ADHD and the New AAP Guidelines

The updated American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), released in October 2011, feature an important change: The recommended age range for evaluating ADHD has been expanded from 6-12 years to 4-18 years. What does this mean for primary care clinicians and their patients? Why was the recommended age range expanded? What resources are available to help primary care clinicians adhere to these guidelines? Click here to read a MCPAP article clarifying these guidelines.

A Discussion of the System Designed to Help Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Massachusetts

The system for receiving care and intervention for children with severe ASD in Massachusetts is complex, confusing, and chaotic. Families must learn to navigate this system in order to receive help for their affected children. There are a few steps that primary care clinicians can take to help. To read more and to better understand the rising costs to help this population, click here.

TOOLKIT SPOTLIGHT
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A Toolkit for the Well Child Screening of Military Children

The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program in partnership with The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project are now offering a toolkit greared toward primary care clinicians caring for military children. Click here..

Suicide Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK
RESOURCES FOR THE MEDICAL HOME
Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) enrolled practices may call MCPAP for questions pertaining to behavioral health issues.

Don't know which MCPAP number to call?? - click here to find out which MCPAP region to call.

Practice not enrolled with MCPAP? Click here to begin the process of MCPAP enrollment.

Click here for a quick reference guide to Children's Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) services from the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts.

Click here for help on navigating the special education system in Massachusetts.

The statewide number for Emergency Service Program/Mobile Crisis is

1-877-382-1609.

ESP services are available to people of all ages who are uninsured or are covered by MassHealth (Medicaid plans), Medicare, and some commercial insurance companies.