Project TEACH

Intensive Training:
Child & Adolescent Mental Health
for Primary Care Clinicians
Live, In-Person Training Event

Sun, Apr 6, 2025 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Mon, Apr 7, 2025 - 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
333 Adams Street, NY

Overview
Learning Objectives
Presenters
Course Topics
Agenda
Virtual Follow-Up Sessions
Target Audience
Tuition
Accreditation

Overview

This Intensive Training Program Includes:

2 day training event + 3 virtual follow-up sessions = 15 CME credits.

Those who attended the 2 day training event are encouraged to attend as many follow-up sessions that your schedule allows. Clinicians who complete 14 CME hours and utilize the consultation line twice will receive a Certificate of Completion from Project TEACH.

This program will enhance a healthcare provider’s skills to assess, treat and manage mental health concerns in child and adolescent patients. The focus is to provide helpful tools and strategies for primary care clinicians who are treating pediatric patients and their families. This event offers presentations by Project TEACH’s expert team of child and adolescent psychiatrists along with primary care clinicians.

Project TEACH is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health and all services and events, such as this intensive training, are offered at no-cost to clinicians in New York State.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, learners will be able to:

Recognize the presentation, diagnosis, comorbidity, neurobiology, and current treatment options available for individuals with ADHD.
Assess depression in youth, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents, including an assessment of the black box warning for SSRIs.
Differentiate common anxiety disorders, and describe their assessment and treatment.
Recognize the behaviors resulting from trauma that require treatment, and evaluate the treatment options for children and adolescents
Define pediatric bipolar disorder, and provide examples of effective evidence-based therapies
Assess children with aggression as a primary problem area, recognizing the relevant underlying factors, clinically assess, and provide evidence based treatment options
Assess the factors contributing to school refusal and identify the important elements of a broad treatment plan.
Understand the resources schools have available to assist children with mental health needs and how to access them.
Screen, assess, triage, and manage suicidal children and adolescents.
Assess and development a management plan for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors

Presenters

Michael Scharf, MD

Molly Scharf, MD

Diane E. Bloomfield, MD

Jason Herrick, MD

Victor Fornari, MD

Jessica Grant, MD

Zoya Popivker, D.O.

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD

Course Topics

Module Topic 1:

ADHD

Module Topic 2:

Depression and Suicide Risk Assessment & Management

Module Topic 3:

Trauma, Loss, and Trauma Informed Care

Module Topic 4:

Anxiety

Module Topic 5:

Aggression

Agenda

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Introduction & Overview

9:00-9:10 am

Project TEACH Welcome and Overview

Michael Scharf, MD

Module Topic 1: ADHD

9:10-9:50 am

Assessment of ADHD with case presentation

Molly Scharf, MD

9:50-10:40 am

Treatment of ADHD “Incorporation Into Your Practice/Table Activity”

Diane E. Bloomfield, MD

10:40-11:30 am

Trickier Questions for Trickier Kids

Jason Herrick, MD

11:30-11:45 am

Questions and Answers

Victor Fornari, MD

11:45-1:00 pm

Lunch Break

Module Topic 2: Depression and Suicide Risk Assessment & Management

1:00-1:30 pm

Assessment and Diagnosis of Adolescent Depression

Diane E. Bloomfield, MD

1:30-2:00 pm

Management and Treatment of Adolescent Depression

Jessica Grant, MD

2:00-2:15 pm

Video: Talking to Teens and Parents about starting SSRI

Moderator:

Diane E. Bloomfield, MD

Panelists:

Zoya Popivker, D.O.Jessica Grant, MD

2:15-2:30 pm

Questions and Answers

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD

2:30-2:50 pm

Break

2:50-3:10 pm

Bipolar Depression: Fact or Fiction

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD

3:10-3:30 pm

Suicide Assessment and Management in Pediatric Primary Care

Molly Scharf, MD

3:30-4:00 pm

Video: Patient Simulation Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk in Real World Practice

Moderator:

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD

Panelists:

Diane E. Bloomfield, MD Zoya Popivker, D.O.Jessica Grant, MD

4:00-4:15 pm

Safety Planning with Suicidal Teens & Their Parents

Molly Scharf, MD

4:15-4:30 pm

Questions and Answers

Rachel Zuckerbrot, MD

4:30-4:45 pm

Evaluation and Wrap up

Monday, April 7, 2025

Introduction & Overview

8:30-8:45 am

Welcome, Housekeeping and LC Introduction

Michael Scharf, MD

Module Topic 3: Trauma, Loss, and Trauma Informed Care

8:45-9:05 am

Assessment and Diagnosis

Victor Fornari, MD, Michael Scharf, MD,

9:05-9:25 am

Screening

Victor Fornari, MD, Michael Scharf, MD,

9:25-9:45 am

Treatment

Victor Fornari, MD, Michael Scharf, MD,

9:45-10:00 am

Table Activity (Assessment and Diagnosis: CASE A, Part-1)

Maureen Montgomery, MD

10:00-10:15 am

Incorporation Into Your Practice: Trauma-Informed Care

10:15-10:30 am

Table Activity (Incorporation Into Your Practice: CASE A, Part-2)

Maureen Montgomery, MD

10:30-10:45 am

Questions and Answers

Victor Fornari, MD

10:45-10:55 am

Break

Module Topic 4 : Anxiety

10:55-11:20 am

Assessment and Diagnosis

Jason Herrick, MD

11:20-11:45 am

Treatment

Zoya Popivker, D.O.

11:45-12:00 pm

Incorporation Into Your Practice: Assessment and Treatment

Zoya Popivker, D.O., Maureen Montgomery, MD,

12:00-1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15-1:45 pm

Difficult Case - School Refusal

Michael Scharf, MD

1:45-2:00 pm

Questions and Answers

Victor Fornari, MD

Break

Module Topic 5 : Aggression

2:15-2:45 pm

Assessment

Michael Scharf, MD

2:45-3:15 pm

Treatment

Zoya Popivker, D.O.

3:15-3:40 pm

Incorporation into your practice (with 10 min table activity)m

Maureen Montgomery, MD

3:40-4:00 pm

Questions and Answers

Victor Fornari, MD

4:00-4:15 pm

Wrap Final comments and Evaluations

*While course topics and days are final, times and presenters may be updated prior to the event. A final agenda will be shared with registrants.

Virtual Follow-Up Sessions

Attendees of the full-day intensive training are encouraged to participate in the follow-up learning session. This is a virtual, Zoom interactive event. Those who register and/or attend the April 6 – 7 program will be sent the link to join this follow-up session.

All Follow-Up Sessions will take place between 12:00pm – 1:00pm.

Open

Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment for Primary Care Clinicians

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Victor Fornari, MD

Open

Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Maureen Montgomery, MD

Open

Understanding and Collaborating with Schools

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

James Wallace, MD Lynn Carragher, MEDL

Target Audience

New York State clinicians practicing in a pediatric, family practice and/or school-based health clinic; including: physicians, psychologists, nursing professionals, social workers and residents.

Tuition

This training program is offered at no cost to physicians and clinicians affiliated with a practice that provides medical or psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents in New York State. .It is offered as a service provided by Project TEACH and is funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health.