Strategy 3.2
Improve collaboration with community partners to improve access for children and
families to mental health services and supports.
Tactic: Expand PMHI Family Resource Liaisons/Warm Line capacity to enhance
collaboration with community partners and to facilitate children’s access to
appropriate prevention and intervention services.
Tactic: Offer professional development and technical assistance to community
based providers to enhance their ability to meet children’s mental health needs
in community-based settings such as community health clinics and schools. This
could include integrating screening, referral and counseling services into community
based settings, as well as the potential for targeted initiatives, such as training on
appropriate referrals to Children’s Colorado Emergency Department.
Tactic: Utilize community health workers embedded in community settings to
support connecting families with mental health services and supports.
Tactic: Explore feasibility of developing crisis text line or other mobile based platform
for youth, which would serve as entry and referral point to Children’s Colorado and
other community based services based on acuity.
Tactic: Explore ways to improve communication and coordination with other providers,
such as Children’s Colorado participation in the Aurora Project AWARE pilot.
Setting / Delivery Mechanism
Providers – Children’s Colorado will partner with other community health clinic
and pediatric practice providers to assess needs and develop a coordinated
response involving one or more of the tactics listed above.
Schools – Children’s Colorado will partner with schools and other school based
providers to assess needs and develop a coordinated response involving one or
more of the tactics listed above.
Home – Community based community health workers will utilize
questionnaires to assess a child/family’s needs and connect them with
appropriate resources and supports based on needs. Referrals will be tracked
and evaluated for effectiveness.
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