With child and adolescent psychiatrists available within 30 minutes of request and a robust care coordination service that connects families with community-based resources, such as therapy and support groups, MO-CPAP promotes a collaborative approach to childhood mental health for healthcare and social service providers who serve children in Missouri.
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Our Vision: To increase mental health care access and to support healthcare and social service providers as they address mild to moderate behavioral health concerns in their practices.
An Established Need
According to a 2021 report of Missouri's children, 23% of children in Missouri have one or more emotional, behavioral, and developmental conditions, while a 2023 report notes that over a third of Missouri's high school students reported being sad or hopeless almost every day for 2 or more weeks in a row.
Many children and adolescents do not receive treatment or experience significant delays before beginning treatment. While MO-CPAP serves pediatric health and social service providers of all demographics, MO-CPAP targets consultation and education outreach efforts to primary care providers (PCPs) as nearly 75% of children will first receive behavioral health care from a primary care provider.
Benefits to Registered Providers
By participating in the MO-CPAP Program, providers receive access to:
- Same-day telephone consultations with a child and adolescent psychiatrist within 30 minutes of a call or scheduled at a convenient time. Child and adolescent psychiatrists are available 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday (except major holidays) to provide behavioral health consultation, including diagnostic issues, medication management and treatment planning. MO-CPAP cannot provide emergency or crisis response care to patients or offer appointments with child and adolescent psychiatrists.
- Follow-up care coordination to help primary care providers connect their patients with referral services to community-based behavioral health care and other resources for treatment in their area. Families may be referred directly to Behavioral Health Response (BHR) for follow-up services. Services are available through the MO-CPAP phone line and are provided by BHR 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Ongoing education and training opportunities with the opportunity to earn free CME and CEU credit(s). MO-CPAP offers behavioral health skills training for healthcare and social service providers. Webinars and training opportunities offered are informed by evidence-based guidelines in response to the priority needs of pediatric providers, and cover topics including:
- Best-practice clinical guidelines, including diagnostics and pharmacological interventions.
- Evidence-based screening tools and behavioral intervention options.
- MO-CPAP-developed webinars on a variety of behavioral health topics, with CME credits available upon completion.
- Monthly MO-CPAP newsletters with information regarding behavioral health training, updates to best practice clinical guidelines, clinical alerts and the latest data on the MO-CPAP pilot.
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MO-CPAP Participant Registration
To register and participate in the MO-CPAP program, please complete this form. Please direct any questions about the project or registration process to information@mocpap.missouri.edu
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Program Funding
MO-CPAP is offered through the University of Missouri School of Medicine as a collaborative partnership among Behavioral Health Network (BHN), Assessment Resource Center (ARC), Missouri Telehealth Network (MTN), Behavioral Health Response (BHR), Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Ambulatory Research Consortium (WU PAARC) and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI-St. Louis).
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U4CMC32326, Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program, with a total award amount of $2,125,000, 20% financed with non-governmental sources. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
