Connecting for Kids (C4K)
Connecting for Kids (C4K)
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 1-2 hour guided, virtual dialogue offers an accessible and effective model that brings together primary care teams, school teams, families, and other youth-serving systems to:
- Develop a shared mission to support youth behavioral health
- Reflect on strengths and gaps in existing communication and partnership
- Generate ideas for streamlined coordination and communication across their systems
- Identify and commit to actionable next steps to improve cross-sector collaborations
Our Mission
To enhance interprofessional collaboration between critical systems of care to better address the physical health, behavioral health, and academic needs of children and teens.
Supporting Systems of Care
Supporting Systems of Care
Training & Resources
Providing professionals in youth-serving sectors with knowledge and tools to facilitate dialogue informed by content experts.
Our Team
Educators and clinicians work as a network of regional Connecting for Kids (C4K) trainers and facilitators.
Impacting our Communities
Individuals who participated in C4K dialogues reported stronger connections with other systems, shared goals, increased trust and respect, more collaborative attitudes, more referrals to behavioral health supports, and better communication.
Teams saw changes in collaboration: more frequent contact with designated contacts; school staff proactively reaching out to PCPs for behavioral health issues; and primary care teams requesting key contacts in school teams.
System-level changes included new workflows to improve communication, such as between school and primary care teams, and identifying a person responsible for triaging school-related calls.
Cross-sector teams are creating documents to enhance understanding, such as aiding primary care in providing Special Education supports.
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