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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 hard copy of a Pocket Guide for Primary Care Professionals: Assessment and Interventions with Potentially Suicidal Patients or a copy of a Safety Planning Guide: A Quick Guide for Clinicians,, contact your regional MCPAP team.

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.

Suicide Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK

 
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Starting Off Right: How Primary Care Clinicians Can Foster Mental Health Wellness during the Transition to Parenthood

Childhood behavioral and psychological issues have long-term consequences for both individual and public health: They can lead to cardiovascular and other health conditions, mental health issues, smoking, obesity, homicide, and suicide. These issues are often rooted in the parent-child relationship; helping parents develop good parenting skills, from their child's birth through adolescence, can prevent problems from developing.1,2

As the family's primary healthcare provider, pediatricians can play an important role in guiding parents through parenthood by providing advice and identifying and addressing parenting problems and parents' mental health issues, including post-partum depression. Download full article.

1Garner, Andrew S. et al, Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science into Lifelong Health, Pediatrics, January 2012

2http://www.cdc.gov/ace/index.htm

How Primary Care Clinicians Can Build Trusting Relationships with Patients and Families

Building a trusting relationship with families helps clinicians address psychosocial issues early, which can reduce mental health costs, minimize unnecessary office visits that are actually pleas for help from parents, prevent psychological problems from worsening, and help parents better manage their child's behavioral and emotional issues. Download full article.

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.