A new initiative from Children’s Health and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute has in its first year expanded mental health services to more than 150,000 families in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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The pediatric mental health initiative launched in 2022 to train primary care doctors to assess anxiety, depression and stress in the kids they treat. Sabrina Browne, an assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern who also works in the behavioral health program at Children’s Health, headed up the initiative.
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