Business Briefs: Program to Train, Place Students in Behavioral Healthcare; Children’s Hospital Adds Psychiatric Unit

The Adelphi University School of Social Work and the university’s College of Nursing and Public Health have been awarded a four-year, $1.92 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to train 120 graduate students and place them in behavioral healthcare organizations that serve children and adolescents in communities lacking resources.

The program, known as Interdisciplinary Education and Training Experience (IDEATE) Fellowship—Integrated Behavioral Healthcare for Children, Adolescents and Transitional Youth in New York, will be conducted in partnership with behavioral health medical group Concert Health and Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in New York state.

The program, which will take one academic year to complete, will train 30 master’s-level students per year. Students will then be placed in underserved and low-income communities identified by program organizers.

University of Maryland Children’s Hospital opens psychiatric unit

The University of Maryland Children’s Hospital has opened a new psychiatric unit for children and adolescents. The hospital said in a news release that the 16-bed facility is the first trauma-informed center for children ages 5-17 in the state.

The new unit offers care for trauma, psychotic spectrum, mood, anxiety, co-morbid neurodevelopmental, and attention deficit hyperactive disorders. Service offerings include crisis stabilization, as well as inpatient and outpatient levels of care.