The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Child Access to Mental Health and Psychiatry (CHAMP) Project “is a consultation and educational service for pediatric primary care providers in Mississippi.” That means ANY pediatrician, family medicine doctor or nurse practitioner in Mississippi who sees children ages birth to 21 can call the CHAMP line and get an immediate FREE phone consultation with a child psychiatrist, a child psychologist, a social worker or a resource specialist. Families as Allies partners with CHAMP to provide family support and also work on system-level approaches to sustain the service.
As families, we know how important it is for our children to be seen and treated by people they and we already know and trust, including their primary medical care providers. CHAMP’s approach helps families and children. It also helps ease the shortage of mental health providers in Mississippi and likely saves money too.
We were glad to see CHAMP receive the national recognition that it richly deserves in this article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-demand-youth-psychiatry-rose-pediatric.html
