From Clinician to Community-Engaged Translational Practitioner: Building Social and Mental Health Programs for Children, Families, and Practitioners

Abstract

Lack of mental health professionals and economic and geographic barriers to care are common in the United States. Overcoming these barriers means providing affordable services in places where there are children. This conversation focuses on work centered on a new grant to increase the ability of school districts to provide preventive and interventive mental health services by educating trauma-responsive social work students and practitioners who can recognize social inequality and help connect children and families to services and care. In this video, Dr. Pierce, her community partners and students share how they are working to support the mental health of children and adults.