Research & Impact
Research & Impact
SAMHSA Grant
The goal of UR-SOS is to enhance the capacity of middle and high school educators within the NY Finger Lakes region to support adolescents with behavioral health needs, including those with serious emotional disturbances. The UR-SOS team will offer a series of Project ECHO® [Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes] trainings, an interactive, web-based learning and mentoring program used to support case-based learning, education, and peer support. In this online learning opportunity, mental health, community experts, and school staff will discuss how to provide support and implement practices to address the mental health needs of students. Participants will be encouraged to present issues, solutions, and specific problems during the sessions and learn from subject matter experts and peer school teams in a teach all, learn all model. Participating school teams will also be able to access a new school-based referral stream to PBH&W for short-term acute BH intervention by licensed child & adolescent BH providers.
C4K – Connecting for Kids
Connecting for Kids (C4K) is a community-developed initiative aimed at fostering effective collaboration across school teams, primary care practices, and parents/caregivers to support child and adolescent behavioral health needs.
Our C4K mission is to enhance interprofessional collaboration between critical systems of care to better address the physical health, behavioral health, and academic needs of children and teens.
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Expanded Access to Child Health for EACH Youth in RCSD
Hosted by Golisano Children’s Hospital with UR Medicine, the goal of the EACH Youth Project ECHO® is to provide specialty training for school teams to help support youth behavioral health (BH) needs.
Growing Resilience (Recovery Center of Excellence)
Our mission is to partner with communities in Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Steuben counties in New York State to develop trauma-informed approaches to support substance use disorder (SUD) prevention for rural youth. We aim to accomplish this by linking and supporting rural communities’ schools, health care providers, and community organizations in relevant and meaningful ways.
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Resilient Roots (Mt Hope)
The Resilient Roots study is enrolling youth of color ages 10-15 and their caregiver. The study will evaluation an intervention approach utilizing Trauma Focused – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with and without an enhance racial identify component. The aim of the study is to improve coping strategies for youth of color and reduce mental health symptoms.
SHAPE UP New York
SHAPE Up New York is a state-funded, six-month learning collaborative led by the New York State Office of Mental Health in partnership with the University of Rochester Medical Center, designed to help school districts across New York assess and enhance the quality of their school mental health systems. District teams receive professional development, technical assistance, and coaching to pilot evidence-based practices that strengthen comprehensive school mental health supports.