What is VMAP?

The Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) is a statewide initiative that helps health care providers take better care of children and adolescents with mental health conditions through provider education and increasing access to child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and care navigators.

What VMAP Does
VMAP  ensures that more children have access to providers who are better able to screen, diagnose, manage and treat mental health.  

How VMAP Works

Virginia has a severe shortage of mental health providers. At the same time, PCPs treating children and adolescents are not equipped to manage mental health in their primary care settings.

Enter the Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP).

To address this need, VMAP does two things. First, VMAP gives primary care providers expert training and resources to better serve the children and young adults in their care with mental health needs with year-round education opportunities. Then, VMAP gives physicians access to on-call child and adolescent psychiatrists and licensed behavioral health professionals through our VMAP Line, which accepts calls 40 hours a week.

3 Ways PCPs Can Use VMAP: 

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VMAP Line Consultations

The VMAP Line has child and adolescent psychiatrists and licensed behavioral health professionals available during business hours to provide consultations to Virginia PCPs treating patients ages 0 through 21. To initiate a consult with a child and adolescent psychiatrist, please call the VMAP Line at 1-888-371-VMAP (8627) or request a consult (PCPs only).

VMAP is a State and Federally Funded Program

Available to Virginia PCPs at no cost