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Thursday, 1:40 PM - 3:10 PM

Increasing Access to Prevention and Intervention for Children and Families Through Innovative Public Health Approaches

Increasing rates of childhood mental health problems and a shortage of available providers have fueled the ongoing youth mental health crisis that has especially impacted marginalized and minoritized children (e.g., ethnic/racial minorities, economically disadvantaged, rural populations). From a public health perspective, pediatric and community settings are ideal platforms to foster the foundations of positive mental health given their wide reach and ability to engage children and parents. While prevention and early intervention efforts in these contexts offer hope for addressing this crisis, more research is needed to 1) develop innovative and scalable evidence-based programming across tiers of prevention and intervention from infancy through adolescence and 2) better partner with and utilize public health settings to deliver such programming. To this end, the first paper in this symposium reports on a feasibility and acceptability trial of a novel social-emotional learning program piloted in a pediatric primary care clinic and highlights the potential to utilize the medical setting to deliver low-burden and low-cost prevention programming. The second paper presents findings from a pilot efficacy study of a brief, telehealth intervention for parents of young children with ADHD and demonstrates the ability to increase access to mental health services for underserved youth and families (e.g., rural populations). Finally, the third paper presents findings from a large, tiered, community-partnered approach, delivering supportive parenting programs to promote early parent-child relational health and demonstrating the promise of engaging families at greatest risk by partnering with health care and community settings.

Paper #1
Title	A Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Trial for a Social-Emotional Learning Intervention in Pediatric Primary Care
Presenting author	Michael T. Sanders, Ph.D., Dartmouth Health, United States

Paper #2
Title	Integrating Brief Telehealth Parent Trainings into Medical Clinics: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy
Presenting author	James T. Craig, Ph.D., Dartmouth Health, United States

Paper #3
Title	The Pittsburgh Study: A Community-Partnered, Tiered Approach to Promote Early Relational Health and Child Development
Presenting author	Daniel S. Shaw, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, United States

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Session chair
Michael T. Sanders, Dartmouth Health, United States

Discussant
Tim A. Cavell, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, United States

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