University Psychiatric Centers – Livonia

Child and Adolescent ambulatory services at UPC-Livonia (also known as CAM for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), is a community-based interdisciplinary academic clinic which provides training experience for students, interns and residents in social work, psychology, general and child/adolescent psychiatry.

The program represents a growing integration of the academic clinic’s tripartite mission, reflecting at the same time its unique service and training role in community psychiatry. That role has evolved with the reorganization of county mental health services over the past several years, bringing administrative leadership and consultation, as well as community consultation and collaboration into our service and training mission.

The development of program-based research activities in areas such as: program and clinical outcome evaluation of innovative approaches to service delivery and services for youth with psychosis and their families is underway, furthering plans for a fully integrated ambulatory academic clinic model.

The clinic serves children with psychiatric disorders and their families in both on-site outpatient clinical activities, as well as through a number of collaborative community-based educational and clinical initiatives.

Patients and their families access a wellintegrated array of interventions, including psychopharmacology, psychoeducation, individual, family and group psychotherapies. Youth with Medicaid and case management needs receive additional care coordination service.

The community collaboration provides a rich exposure for the trainees to a broad array of service settings, from Day Care expulsion prevention to Family- Focused clinics. Intensive In-Home Treatment of youth who struggle to retain community placement at home, or dually diagnosed youth served in collaboration with Starfish for issues involving juvenile adjudication or chemical dependence.

Clinic-based conferences and didactics cover everything from empirically based psychotherapy seminar series to formal case conferences and guest presentations.

CAM program faculty wear a number of hats and bring a broad range of experience and perspectives to the CAM clinic experience. We acknowledge a number of community collaborators in our training, service and program evaluation activities in addition to program faculty.

Faculty and Professional Staff:

• Mary Roberts, MD Elese Hairston, ACSW
• Angela Tzelepis, PhD
• Morris Weiss, MD
• Asha Keshavan, MD
• Elizabeth McCullough, MD
• Jean Chambers, MD
• Lucille Gordon, ACSW

Collaborating Community Agencies: Gateway Community Health - current collaborator in program evaluation of Intensive In Home services pilot project, with

Lifespan Clinical Services – a collaborator in a unique clinic-based consultation project, piloting a new level of service care, piloting a novel business (HIPAA, documentation) arrangement in accessing physician service, as well as participating in program evaluation.

Growth Works, Inc. and the Western Wayne Care Management Organization – a care and education collaborator in residency training, treating adjudicated youth and youth with chemical dependency needs.

Children’s Aid Society Day Care at the Family Place – hosting a day care consultation experience for psychiatry and psychology trainees.