Healthy Minds Healthy Children


	Healthy Minds/Healthy Children offers a variety of resources and services to support and build capacity in primary care in the area of child and adolescent mental health. Please check out our new website for more information on the following resources: Services and resources include: Consultation (in-office, telephone, video conference/telehealth) to primary care physicians and clinicians Case or theme based inservicing or presentations on selected topics Internet-based professional development modules in children’s mental health Practitioners’ Desk Reference to aid in efficient identification and management of children’s mental health concerns Information prescriptions on various topics in children’s mental health that practitioners can provide to their patients and clients

	What We Offer
	Online Continuing Professional Development modules in children’s mental health. Busy professionals can access these modules at their convenience on any computer with Internet and audio capability. They are also able to interact with specialists and colleagues on the topics and related practice issues. Past registrants have come from all over Alberta, represent various health professions, and have been very satisfied with the convenience and ease of learning. Clinical consultations to primary care professionals in Southern Alberta on children’s mental health cases. To date, hundreds of consultations have been conducted involving primary care physicians, clinicians and school personnel in communities and First Nations across Southern Alberta. Our clinical consultants are pleased to arrange presentations to professionals and clinical outreach to clinicians. Multidisciplinary Telehealth consultation services to primary care practitioners and families in Southern Alberta. This service introduces the use of interprofessional virtual teams (children’s mental health specialists from across Southern Alberta) who bring a diversity of expertise to the primary care practitioner. Information Prescriptions on a variety of mental health topics. These are handy short listings of information sources (books, websites, videos, etc.) busy practitioners can give to their patients and clients to help them understand more about their mental health concern. These lists are reviewed by children’s mental health professionals to ensure they are relevant, accurate and current. A Desk Reference, published in April 2006, with a second edition ready for circulation March 2008. Additional chapters and regular updates are planned for third edition. This resource, provides primary care practitioners with practical information and tools for screening, identifying and managing mental health issues with children and youth.

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