About CPAN

Mental health is a time-sensitive issue, and the longer that a child spends either in crisis or in a negative environment, the harder it is, uh, to recover. When a family reaches out, we need to be able to move quickly and get them what they need. CPAN is the Child Psychiatry Access Network, a program that essentially is a hotline for PCPs.

We are able to provide a resource for those primary care providers to advise them, support them in any way they need around the mental health of the kids that they’re seeing. The biggest benefit I have is being able to speak on the phone to a psychiatrist about my patients. The process for A PCP is they dial our number, a call agent from our team will take down their information, take down some of the information about the nature of the call, and then the PCP would just wait for about 30 minutes for a callback from us.

We are fully state funded, so it does not cost the PCPs anything. Um, it is completely free to engage in our program. As a professional, I feel like I benefit a great deal because I’m not only learning as the psychiatrist or are helping us with these complicated cases, but also able to help my patient.

That’s my job. They have a huge amount on their plates and I think having that person that they can use as support or that person that they can lean on as support, um, is really, really helpful.