The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) employs a public health model that emphasizes universal behavioral health screening, maximizes access to services in the appropriate setting based on need, and mitigates the lack of child psychiatry resources.
Our regionally based teams help pediatric primary care providers (PCPs) build capacity to meet their patients’ behavioral health needs through: Real-time telephone consultation with our child psychiatrists, within a maximum of 30 minutes; Face-to-face appointments when indicated for acute psychopharmacology or diagnostic evaluation; Assisting PCPs and families with accessing community-based behavioral health services when needed.
Our goal at MCPAP is to improve access to treatment for children with behavioral health issues and their families by making child psychiatry services accessible to PCPs across the Commonwealth.