Children’s Mental Health Initiative

Five Design Teams were tasked with developing a high quality, service integrated, coordinated system of care for the Pinellas Children’s Mental Health Initiative. The Initiative’s vision is to devise and implement a children’s mental health system of care to enhance public awareness and provide for an accessible, family-oriented, coordinated, comprehensive, and high-quality system supported by an engaged and skilled workforce. Key strategies include increasing knowledge among pediatric providers in identifying and treating low-to-moderate mental health conditions; increasing access by integrating behavioral health therapists within pediatric practices; launching a multidisciplinary Centralized Oversight Committee for patient case reviews to identify critical pathways and resources; and shifting the paradigm from an agency-specific focus to a population health model to positively impact children. Email us for regular updates.