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Over 20% of children in low-income families face mental health challenges, yet many can't access the care they need. A groundbreaking study by Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Public Health reveals a promising solution: integrating mental health services into pediatric primary care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). If your child needs mental health support, consider centers that offer integrated care. If unavailable, advocate for centralized healthcare services, emphasizing the importance of timely and comprehensive care for our children's well-being.

Over 20% of children in low-income families face mental health challenges, yet many can't access the care they need. A groundbreaking study by Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Public Health reveals a promising solution: integrating mental health services into pediatric primary care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). If your child needs mental health support, consider centers that offer integrated care. If unavailable, advocate for centralized healthcare services, emphasizing the importance of timely and comprehensive care for our children's well-being.

Learn more about the HRSA grant that the MA NAPNAP Chapter received related to pediatric mental health care access program utilization and how YOU can participate in this amazing opportunity!

Pediatricians deserve fair payment for mental health services, which many practices find themselves adding to fill the gaps in families' access. Learn how to code and bill for these services like a pro with coding expert Jan Blanchard in her upcoming webinar! https://hubs.la/Q02K4Sff0

VMAP is offering REACH PPP, a CME training, virtually this August 23-25! Virginia PCPs can join us to learn more about pediatric mental health and gain skills to take back to their practices. Spots are going fast, so make sure you register today to claim yours! #VMAP #REACHPPP #CMETraining #PediatricMentalHealth #VirginiaPCPs #HealthcareEducation #MentalHealthAwareness #ContinuingEducation #MedicalEducation

Aromatherapy and Colic Colic can be so challenging and aromatherapy can help! It generally starts around 3-6 weeks so they're generally very young babes and usually they're better after 6 weeks and all resolved by 12 weeks so we use very dilute oil Mandarin and/or Roman Chamomile. In many cases, a big part of a mother’s emotional well being is related to her children, so the most recent evidence based guidebook “ Aromatherapy and Womens Mental Health” includes a section on Pediatric Aromatherapy! https://lnkd.in/guAEcRdj

Learn the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pediatric mental health crisis in the U.S. and the federal, state, and local policy responses to support the crisis in this new journal article. Among the findings, the authors note that sustainable funding sources must be identified to provide evidence-based and trauma-informed care that is developmentally appropriate for youth. They also highlighted the importance of addressing the social determinants of health and historic health inequities to ensure all children and adolescents have equitable access to the mental health services they need. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/gwrxgXYw

This article shows us the power of looking through a trauma informed lens to respond to people with mental ill-health. Benefits of assessing and responding with a trauma informed lens include holding the person at the centre, having relational and personalised approaches to healing resulting in better short and long term outcomes. ❤️🩹 #trauma #traumainformed

Discharge from mental health inpatient settings Page summary: Sets out how health and care systems should support the discharge of people from mental health inpatient settings. First published. 4:40pm, 26 January 2024. https://lnkd.in/eQ33bn87

On this cold fall day, why not listen to ‘Inside Medical Malpractice' as we present Trauma Informed Lawyering with Olivia Scobie RSW, MSW, MA Sociology https://lnkd.in/gxgc7qS3  This month, on Inside Medical Malpractice, the first of a 4 part series on Trauma Informed Lawyering.  Whether you’re a lawyer, a healthcare provider, a family who has experienced medical trauma, or someone who knows some who has, I promise there is something valuable here. This series will focus on the personal and vicarious trauma experienced during pregnancy and birth. Listen in as Olivia Scobie, Co-Found of the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Training and Registered Social Worker starts with key phrases and terms, and learning how to recognize trauma in others and ourselves.  Olivia will teach us about theories of trauma, how our brains remember and respond to traumatic experiences, the multiple sites of birth trauma, self regulation, co-regulation, and the window of tolerance.  Lawyers, learn how to better support your clients by understanding why they act the way they do in difficult situations, and how their own trauma can become yours. Olivia offers insight into how the impact of birth trauma can keep clients with potentially viable lawsuits from seeking legal counsel. She also has great advice on the most important things we should all know about trauma in healthcare.  Don’t miss this episode and the entire series! www.Connectmlx.com #connectmedicallegalexperts #insidemedicalmalpractice #trauma #mentalhealth #traumaticexperiences #podcasts2023 #perinatal #socialwork #keyphrase #lawyering