This ECHO aims to support primary care providers and other health care professionals in rural and underserved areas by identifying and treating mental health concerns among children and adolescents.

Understanding Youth Mental Health in Rural Settings
Participants will be able to:
- Understand mental health needs in a rural setting
- Describe challenges commonly encountered in providing mental and behavioral healthcare in primary care medical home setting
- Identify and integrate into practice commonly-use screening tools for behavioral/mental health
- Understand considerations for administering screening tools for youth in the rural primary care setting
- Identify workflow strategies to support integration of mental-behavioral health in primary care

Trauma Informed Care
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the long-term physiologic and behavioral effects of repeated trauma
- Describe the 7 resilience skills that should be supported in children using the THREADS framework
- Identify the 6 most common symptoms

Substance Use among Rural Youth
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the scope of the problem of substance use in adolescents
- Discuss pediatric providers role in preventing and treating substance use in adolescents
- Review fundamental components of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT)

Addressing Suicide Prevention in Rural Settings
Participants will be able to:
- State the epidemiology and inequities related to suicide risk among youth
- Discuss the importance of integrating suicide prevention protocols in pediatric primary care settings
- Use clinical pathways to detect and manage youth suicide risk
- Describe how to talk to patients and families about safety planning and lethal means safety counseling
- Recognize how the brief suicide safety assessment (BSSA) further triages the results of a validated screening tool
- Name the tools that can be used to assess risk of suicidal ideation or behaviors in patients
- Respond to a patient, suicide screening and BSSA results in a culturally responsive, family centered way

Shifting the Narrative Around Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Participants will be able to:
- Understand the public debate regarding social media and youth mental health
- Incorporate research evidence about social media and youth wellbeing into strengths-based language to use with families
- Understand the AAP Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health Framework and resources and how it can support youth and their families
- Understand more about social media and internet use for rural youth and families, including benefits and risks

Family Supports and Community Resilience
Participants will be able to:
- Define resilience and adaptation and the importance of both in conjunction with mental health outcomes
- Describe adaptations demonstrated by family members, peer relationships, and community that support their resilience
- Assess barriers and risk factors that adversely contribute to resilience from prover and patient perspectives
Last Updated
12/16/2024