It is critical to recognize that a child’s emotional and mental well-being is just as important as their physical health. Exposure to traumatic experiences such as violence and neglect, as well as deprivation that often accompanies poverty can negatively affect children’s behavior and, consequently, their relationships with family and friends and their ability to succeed in school.
To ensure that every child realizes her innate potential to become a healthy adult, productive citizen, and contributing member of society, Children First is dedicated to ameliorating the circumstances that contribute to child behavioral health problems and the barriers that impede children from accessing the services they need to feel better.
Parent/Caregiver Toolkit for Kids’ Mental Health
Explore the resources below to learn more about getting your child the support they need. Contact 215-563-5848 or mentalhealth@childrenfirstpa.org if you have any questions or need more help.
- Understanding the Alphabet Soup: Key terms for children’s mental health
- Use this guide if you are unfamiliar with mental health and want to learn more about what services and supports are available to your child.
- Flowchart for Medicaid: английский / арабский / Китайский / португальский / русский / испанский / вьетнамский
- If you would like to take the next step and get your child the mental health support that they need, this is a step-by-step guide for navigating Medicaid coverage for kids’ mental health.
- Medicaid plans are plans such as Keystone First, Health Partners, UnitedHealth Care.
- Flowchart for Commercial Insurance Plans: английский / арабский / Китайский / португальский / русский / испанский / вьетнамский
- If you would like to take the next step and get your child the mental health support they need, this is a step-by-step guide for navigating commercial insurance coverage for kids’ mental health.
- Commercial insurance plans are usually through your job, and include plans such as Independence Blue Cross, Cigna, or Aetna.
- Flyers you can share information with your friends, families, and loved ones. Feel free to print these flyers that will help them get connected on learning how to find mental health resources for children and teens.
- Flyer for children in kindergarten through 8th grade: английский / арабский / Китайский / португальский / русский / испанский / вьетнамский
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- Flyer for high school aged students: английский / арабский / Китайский / португальский / русский / испанский / вьетнамский
- School Nurse and Counselor Manual
- Has a comprehensive section on Mental Health.
Mental Health Priorities
- Dyadic Care can transform youth mental health with innovative solutions for their communities. Take a look at our recent work with mental health professionals working in Dyadic Care.
- Check out our most recent reports on Optimizing Medicaid и State Examples that demonstrate the potential for Pennsylvania’s system and support the five essential mental health reforms.
- Preventing exposure to one-time or ongoing traumatic experiences such as violence, neglect, or racism that can negatively affect children’s emotional and mental wellbeing.
- All children should have access to quality mental health services, regardless of insurance coverage, socioeconomic status, or citizenship.
- Mental health services and supports must be high-quality, culturally relevant, age-appropriate, and patient-centered.
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Посмотреть больше инструментовDyadic Care Webinar Presentations
On Friday, October 25, 2024, Children First held a webinar on Dyadic Care called, “Caring Together: Models for Improving The Mental Well-Being of Young Children and Families.” This webinar explored how dyadic care models are transforming youth mental health and how individuals and organizations can help bring these innovative solutions to their communities.
Our featured speaker was Sally Kozak, MHA, RN – Deputy Secretary, Office of Medical Assistance Programs, PA Department of Human Services along with guest speakers: Alex Briscoe, Principal – California Children’s Trust; Emma Golub, MPH – Policy Analyst at CHOP Policy Lab; Natalie Minto, MD – Pediatrician, CHOP Primary Care at Cobbs Creek and; Abby Schlesinger, MD – Pediatric Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Here is a link to YouTube video of the webinar – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbSaTqojDc&t=1s.
The links below are documents that were shared during the webinar that might serve as helpful information on Dyadic Care:
- Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in Pennsylvania
- State Examples of Optimizing Medicaid
- Babies Don’t Go to the Doctor by Themselves
- Sustaining HealthySteps: States’ Approaches to Financing an Evidence-based Model for Healthy Early Childhood Development
- Strategies for Advancing Dyadic Care Models
- Slide deck
- Пресс-релиз
- Media Advisory
Для получения дополнительной информации по электронной почте: mentalhealth@childrenfirstpa.org
Strategies for Advancing Dyadic Care Models
Dyadic care in mental health is an approach that treats both the child and their caregiver together, focusing on strengthening the relationship between a child and their caregiver(s).
By supporting healthy interactions, dyadic care helps strengthen emotional bonds and promotes positive mental health outcomes for young children.
Dyadic care can also address care coordination, child social-emotional health and safety, and maternal mental health.
This fact sheet details some strategies for advancing dyadic care models.
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Учить большеBehavioral Health Toolkit
What is behavioral health? Behavioral health refers to both mental health and/or substance use challenges, including depression, anxiety, alcoholism, attention deficit disorder, disordered eating, drug addiction, and more. Behavioral health can range from individual behaviors and symptoms to a diagnosable disorder. The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that one in five children in the United States lives with a behavioral health challenge.
Parent/Caregiver Toolkit for Kids’ Behavioral Health
Explore the resources below to learn more about getting your child the support they need. If you have any questions or need further assistance, please call 215-563-5848 or email behavioralhealth@childrenfirstpa.org
- Understanding the Alphabet Soup: Key terms for children’s behavioral health
- Use this guide if you are unfamiliar with behavioral health and want to learn more about what services and supports are available to your child.
- Flowchart for Medicaid
- If you would like to take the next step and get your child the behavioral health support that they need, this is a step-by-step guide for navigating Medicaid coverage for kids’ behavioral health.
- Medicaid plans are plans such as Keystone First, Health Partners, United.
- Flowchart for Commercial Insurance Plans
- If you would like to take the next step and get your child the behavioral health support they need, this is a step-by-step guide for navigating commercial insurance coverage for kids’ behavioral health.
- Commercial insurance plans are usually through your job, and include plans such as Independence Blue Cross, Cigna, or Aetna.
- Flyers you can share information with your friends, families, and loved ones. Feel free to print these flyers that will help them get connected on learning how to find Behavioral Health resources for children and teens.
- School Nurse and Counselor Manual
- Has a comprehensive section on Behavioral Health.
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- Understanding the Alphabet Soup: Key terms for children’s behavioral health
- Flowchart for Medicaid
- Flowchart for Commercial Insurance Plans
School Nurse and Counselor Resource Manual – Mar 10, 2022
School Nurse and Counselor Manual (2022)
More than 37,000 children and teens in the Greater Philadelphia area are uninsured. Yet the majority of them are eligible for free or low-cost health insurance. The good news is that almost almost every child and teen qualifies for free or low-cost health insurance.
School nurses and counselors are often the primary and most consistent source of health information and assistance for families without health insurance. When parents and caregivers are questioned, they rank schools and school staff as highly trusted sources of information about health and health insurance. Trying to navigate the health care system for their children can be difficult.
The purpose of this manual is to assist school nurses and counselors in connecting students to health insurance and health care services.
The first four sections of this manual provide details on the programs that cover children and their families, how to apply for coverage and where to get help with applications, what health benefits are covered, and how to access them. The second two sections of the manual list resources for schools, resources for care – free and low-cost health care services in Bucks, Chester, Delaware Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties for children who are uninsured or underinsured, guide to applying for coverage, and resources for consumers.