Home      Login

Abstract: 

Primary care providers (PCPs) often provide primary mental health services to children, in large part because children have limited access to child mental health specialists. Creating a collaborative care arrangement between primary care providers and a limited number of child mental health specialists may be an effective way to support, educate, and enhance the ability of PCPs to provide basic mental health services, even when there are few local resources available. Washington State has created a collaborative care program to address this need, called the Partnership Access Line (PAL). This paper describes the PAL, preliminary implementation data, and an evaluation plan for PAL that is designed to examine how this program affects important PCP and child outcomes.

Keywords: 

Affiliations:  1: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington; 2: University of Washington; 3: University of Washington; 4: Washington State Department of Health and Social Services; 5: Washington State Department of Health and Social Services.