Through a partnership with the University of California, San Francisco Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program (USCF CAPP), the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) launched the California Child and Adolescent Mental Health Access Portal (Cal-MAP) on December 27, 2024. Cal-MAP is a statewide behavioral health eConsult service that provides pediatricians, primary care physicians and other practitioners (e.g., school-based service providers) access to consultation support from licensed behavioral health professionals, including psychiatrists.
In addition to providing remote and real-time consultation support with behavioral health clinical experts, it offers access to behavioral health resources, tools and supports, including trainings to strengthen the workforce and improve the capacity of primary care providers and pediatricians to provide behavioral health treatment to children, youth and young adults.
Providers that are interested in accessing Cal-MAP’s services should visit the Cal-Map website at Cal-MAP.org
Continue making improvements and adding additional features and functionalities to the statewide eConsult portal to provide synchronous and asynchronous behavioral health consults and warmline support.
Connect pediatricians, primary care physicians and other providers to behavioral health professionals to receive consultation and guidance when providing behavioral health care.
Create learning opportunities for primary care and behavioral health professionals.
Improve access to behavioral health tools, supports and resources for primary care providers and pediatricians.
