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TeenScreen

The National Association of Community Health Centers is partnering with the  TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University to encourage routine mental health screening for adolescent patients in federally qualified health centers. Mental health screening is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The TeenScreen National Center is a pioneering force in the early identification of mental illness in teens and its programs have been recognized as a national model and are listed in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices and the Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention.

Through NACHC’s partnership with TeenScreen, adolescent primary care providers from FQHCs can access the following free resources:

• Evidence-based screening questionnaires for adolescent patients
  • PSC-Y Screening Questionnaire Starter Kit- the PSC-Y is a broad mental health screening questionnaire Download Here
  • PHQ-9 Modified for Teens Screening Questionnaire Starter Kit- the PHQ-9 Modified is a depression screening questionnaire Download Here
  • CRAFFT Screening Questionnaire Starter Kit- the CRAFFT is a substance use screening questionnaire  Download Here
• Supplemental Guides - Preparing the Primary Care Office for Screening, Guide to Referrals, Post-Screening Discussion Guide, Screening Questionnaire Overview , Guide to Coding and Payment for Private Payers
• Technical assistance from TeenScreen National Center staff email: mlardiere@nachc.com
• Monthly webinars on topics related to child and adolescent mental health in the primary care office Click Here

 

To learn more about how to get started with screening and to access other resources to assist with implementation in your FQHC Click Here

To learn more: Making TeenScreen Mental Health Check Ups a Primary Care  Click Here

To contact TeenScreen, please email: MentalHealthCheckups@childpsych.columbia.edu

To contact NACHC regarding the TeenScreen Program please email: mlardiere@nachc.com

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Choose which files you want to download:

PSY-Y Screening Questionaire Starter Kit
PHQ-9 Modified for Teens Screening Questionnaire Starter Kit
CRAFFT Screening Questionnaire Starter Kit

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Please note that by completing the form and downloading the TeenScreen Toolkit you are agreeing that you may be contacted by the TeenScreen Program to provide assistance in implementing this screening tool.

If you do not wish to be contacted please check this box. 
By not accepting assistance with implementation you are agreeing to accept all risks associated with not using the tool correctly.