The Summer Edition of your Project TEACH
newsletter is here!

This newsletter highlights recent Project TEACH news, helpful downloadable resources on mental health, links to recent newsletters focusing on various clinical topics and upcoming training opportunities. Our goal is to help you stay up to date with news and information so you can make informed decisions for the patients and families in your practice.

Project TEACH has Launched a New Facebook Page!

By following our page, you’ll be one of the first to hear about Project TEACH trainings and events in your geographic area. We also ask that you please help us grow the page by liking and sharing our page with your own friends and family!

Our Facebook page is a valuable resource to obtain relevant information supporting our mission: to strengthen and support the ability of New York’s pediatric primary care providers (PCPs) to deliver care to children and families experiencing mild-to-moderate mental health concerns.

Every individual effort counts, and your participation will help us to achieve our goals!

So, please take a moment and visit the link below to like/share our page! Also, anytime you visit your personal Facebook and notice one of our posts, please give it a share if you like.

New Project TEACH Mental Health Downloadable Resources and Videos

We are eager to share these Parent-friendly downloadable resources and videos on specific mental health issues. To view the mental health topics below, as well as others, please visit the Resources for Parents and Family Members webpage.

• What to know about ADHD
• What to know about Anxiety
• What to know about Pediatric Bi-Polar Disorder
• What to know about Pediatric Depression

Project TEACH and New York State American Academy of Pediatrics Monthly Newsletters

Written by Project TEACH Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in partnership with the New York State American Academy of Pediatrics (NYS/AAP), the newsletters provide information about important clinical topics identified by NYS pediatric primary care providers. Click the links below to read the most recent newsletters.

• Assessing, Diagnosing and Treating ADHD
• Assessing, Diagnosing and Treating Anxiety in the Pediatric Primary Care Practice
• Assessing and Addressing Suicide/Depression in Children and Teens
• Eating Disorders in Primary Care

Continuing Education Event hosted by Project TEACH Region 2

Date:         October 4, 2019
Location:   Saratoga Springs City Center
                  522 Broadway
                  Saratoga Springs, New York

Program:   8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.: “Finding our Way – Healing our Traumatized Children”

Dr. Nancy Rappaport, a seasoned child psychiatrist and associate professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, provides a framework for intervention with traumatized children and their caregivers. As the author of the influential book The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, she will share the FAIR plan method of understanding and improving behavior in a challenging student.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe why traditional behavior plans of reward and consequences often do not work for students with challenging behavior and list the elements of a FAIR behavior plan.
2. Describe trauma’s impact on behavior and strategies for creating a trauma-sensitive environment and the importance of relationship building.
3. List the components of a comprehensive safety assessment, key warning signs and questions to ask following a threat.
4. Explain the importance of building resiliency for provider and patients and list ways that can help us continue to learn as clinicians.

Please contact Kelly Pilkey at (518) 584-3600 ext. 3085 or kpilkey@fourwindssaratoga.com with questions.

Takeaways from Second Annual Forum on Innovative Practices in Prevention Science

Evidence shows that preventive interventions can have profound, measurable, and long-lasting effects on the health outcomes of children and youth, including behavioral health outcomes. The goal for the Second Annual Forum was to discuss best practices for the practical implementation of early identification and treatment of psychosocial concerns in the pediatric primary care setting for the zero to five age range.

Below are some high-level takeaways from the Second Annual Forum: