Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium/ McGovern Medical School SB-11/ARPA funded programs
Project Description:
• As Executive Director, I provide managerial oversight over programs instituted by the UTHealth Psychiatry department, and I represent the department as an executive committee member on the consortium in one of the thirteen state-wide hubs. The Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) was created by the 86th Texas Legislature to leverage the expertise and capacity of the health-related institutions of higher education to address urgent mental health challenges and improve the mental health care system concerning children and adolescents.
• As Co-investigator, I direct accountability to the state and generate quarterly reports back to the consortium on the progress of four of our initiatives:
(a) the Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN), which provides telehealth-based consultation and training to primary care providers. I also contribute to the
(b) Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program, which provides in-school behavioral telehealth care to at-risk children and adolescents, and
(c) the Community Psychiatry Workforce Expansion (CPWE), which funds full-time academic psychiatrists as academic medical directors and new psychiatric resident rotation positions at facilities operated by community mental health providers.
(d) the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Fellowships program to expand the number of pediatric psychiatry fellowship positions and the number of training programs in Texas.
Keyword(s):
Developmental Disabilities, Mental/Behavioral Health – General , Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Continuing Education/Community Training, Other Direct/Model Services
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance, Health-Related Activities
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
None
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County, Mulit-County, State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
