The Building Bridges of Understanding portfolio of materials was developed in the context of the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP) of the Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC). The PPOC is a statewide independent pediatric primary care network affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital.  BHIP has 3 key components:  behavioral health education for PPOC pediatric primary care practitioners (PCPs), psychiatric consultation for PPOC PCPs, and integration of behavioral health clinicians (BHCs) into PPOC practices.  Over the past decade, BHIP has been found to -

• Be feasible, acceptable, & highly adopted among PCPs

• Increase PCPs' and BHCs' behavioral health knowledge, skills, & confidence

• Increase behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care

• Improve access to behavioral health services

• Behavioral health screening

• Behavioral health evaluation & management visits to PCPs

• Psychotherapy visits to BHCs

• Conform to national clinical practice guidelines for safe & effective prescribing of psychiatric medications

• Work synergistically with child psychiatry access programs to maintain management of mild to moderate behavioral health problems in pediatric primary care

• Improve behavioral health symptoms and function in pediatric patients

• Be sustainable over more than a decade of implementation 

These findings are detailed in published articles.