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ACCESS Mental Health CT was created to ensure that youth under 19 years of age, irrespective of insurance coverage, have access to psychiatric and behavioral health services through their primary care providers. It is designed to increase PCPs' behavioral health knowledge so they can identify and treat behavioral health disorders better and expand their awareness of local resources. Beacon Health Options contracts with three behavioral health organizations to act as Hub teams and provide support: Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, Wheeler Clinic, and Yale Child Study Center. Each team consists of board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, a behavioral health clinician, a program coordinator, and a half-time family peer specialist. Teams provide real-time psychiatric consultation and case-based education to PCPs over the phone. Conversations may entail diagnostic clarification, psychopharmacology recommendations, counseling recommendations, and care coordination to community resources
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