Welcome to Haven's dedicated space forClinicians
As frontline healthcare workers, you play a crucial role in identifying, assessing, and supporting young people with mental health concerns. We recognize the unique challenges you face in addressing youth mental health within the constraints of busy clinical settings, and we’re here to provide you with targeted resources to enhance your practice.
Our Clinicians
Our clinicians resources are designed to offer you evidence-based, up-to-date information and tools to effectively address the mental health needs of your young patients. Whether you’re a primary care physician, pediatrician, nurse practitioner, or specialist, these resources aim to support your clinical decision-making and patient care strategies.
Remember, we understand that staying current with the rapidly evolving field of youth mental health can be challenging. Our goal is to provide you with concise, practical resources that can be easily integrated into your clinical practice, helping you to provide the best possible care for your young patients.
We encourage you to explore these resources and incorporate them into your practice as appropriate. Remember, your role in early identification and intervention can make a significant difference in the lives of young people struggling with mental health issues.
Ready to enhance Your Practice?
Choose a topic below to access our clinicians resources:
- For screening, she recommends using the CESDC for depression and the SCARED for anxiety in children. They’re relatively short questionnaires. If time is limited, the PHQ-9 or GAD-7 can be good alternatives.
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network www.nctsn.org
- This website has sections for professionals, parents, community and lists the types of trauma that impact children.
- National Council for Behavioral Health
- National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
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- National Domestic Violence Hotline resources for survivors http://www.thehotline.org/
- International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies istss.org
- National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov
- American Psychological Association www.apa.org/topics/trauma
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
Resources from this presentation (please note some of the resources from our ECHO series are specifically intended for military families):
- Strengthening the Homefront: A Tactical Toolkit for Deployment -Targeted interventions that address key resiliency factors across the deployment cycle. Designed to be parent-focused, by taking healthy action, enhance positive familial interactions and communication, and support parent and child coping.
- For children living on installations (i.e., bases), use support systems and programs to keep kids involved
- A reliable support system also lets you connect with other families and children going through the same thing.
- Installation Military and Family Support Center can help you connect with:
- Deployment resources for families
- Family readiness groups, School liaisons, Chaplains, Child and youth programs
- For Children service members who don’t live near installations, the following local resources can help:
- Boys & Girls Clubs of America Mission Youth Outreach – offers free club membership to provide high-quality programs and caring mentors.
- 4-H Military partnerships – offer programs for positive youth development through intentional learning experiences.
- Yellow Ribbon program – promotes the well-being of National Guard and Reserve members, their families and communities by offering events to connect them with resources through the deployment cycle.
Resources from this presentation (please note some of the resources from our ECHO series are specifically intended for military families):
- Project FOCUS: goal is to enhance family resiliency by focusing on communication, emotion regulation, problem-solving, goal setting, and managing trauma and stress reminders
- After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT): online tools and on-installation programming focused on parenting skills
- Project Thrive: free online program (partially DoD funded) to support child development and parenting across the age span
- New Parent Support Program: free offering through DoD (associated with Family Advocacy Program) focused on bolstering knowledge, skills, and parent-child bond
