UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care

This project will leverage community resources to establish and strengthen child and adolescent behavioral health (BH) services in Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, and Union Counties, Pennsylvania to: 1. Establish new behavioral health prevention, treatment, and recovery services for children and adolescents. a. Implement at least one evidence-based afterschool program in the targeted communities with a specific focus on increasing emotional and social competencies and reducing behavior challenges. b. Implement a community- and family-based treatment model to address increasing rates of problematic sexualized behavior. c. Expand social and peer-based recovery networks to provide support to children and adolescents. 2) Improve the capacity of rural health care providers, paraprofessionals, non-clinical staff, and community members to care for and support children and adolescents with BH needs, through training and peer mentorship. a. Increase the capacity of clinicians, paraprofessionals, non-clinical staff, and community members to reduce substance use and build resilience in youth. b. Implement a learning collaborative to provide opportunities for peer mentorship and to support uptake and implementation of evidence-based trainings delivered through the project. 3) Build community partnerships to ensure that children and adolescents, and their families, have access to community resources and human services that support prevention of, treatment of, and recovery from BH disorders. These aims can be achieved through the partnership of: UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Columbia, Montour, Snyder, and Union Counties Behavioral Health & Developmental Services, Schuylkill County Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Development Services, Northumberland County Behavioral Health/Intellectual and Developmental Services Program, and Behavioral Health Alliance of Rural Pennsylvania.