Safe and effective mental and physical health care requires collaboration and communication between child and adolescent psychiatrists and other medical professionals. AACAP provides materials to assist clinicians and policy makers interested in developing collaborative care model.

• Pediatric Integrated Care Resource Center
  
  
• Call to Action: Collaborative Care Training (© 2014)
  
  
• Lecture: Introduction to Collaborative Care (© 2014)
  
  
• Best Principles for Integration of Child Psychiatry into the Pediatric Health Home (© 2012)
  This document is intended to assist health insurance payers and purchasers by providing a framework for integrating and sustaining mental health in the pediatric health home.
  
  
• Guide to Building Collaborative Mental Health Care Partnerships In Pediatric Primary Care (© 2010)
  
  
• AACAP is a participating member of the American Medical Association's Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Collaborative, a group of physician organizations that have been working together to develop resources to assist primary care physicians with integrating behavioral health into their practices. Click here for access to a compendium of resources and links to the "Overcoming Obstacles" webinar series.

Episode 1 - The Basics: Starting a Program

Dr. Abby Schlesinger discusses the "nuts and bolts" of starting up a pediatric integrated care program in Pittsburgh, integrating into a large community-based pediatric primary care network.

Episode 2 - The Possibilities: Financing and the Future

Dr. Schlesinger "talks turkey" about financing pediatric integrated care programs and what lies ahead for the field.

Episode 3 - Meeting Pediatric Behavioral Health Care Needs in Underserved Oregon

Our guest, Dr. Mike Franz, discusses starting a pediatric integrated care program in Bend, Oregon, and the difficult decisions of what can and can't be done with the time and resources available.

Episode 4 - The Big Picture - What Do Insurers Really Think of Pediatric Integrated Care?

Dr. Franz puts on his "other hat" as Medical Director for Behavioral Health for a major insurer in Oregon to discuss how they are viewing the value case for pediatric integrated care.