PACE Clinic – Psychiatry Access, Continuity, and Evaluation

When children are in crisis, you want to get help for them quickly. They may be experiencing depression, anxiety, suicidal thinking, may be lashing out at family and friends, or hurting themselves or others.

The PACE (Psychiatry Access, Continuity, and Evaluation) Clinic at Hasbro Children’s can help.

By appointment only, the PACE Clinic provides short-term, outpatient psychiatric care until a child or teen can get into an ongoing treatment program. Your child may be scheduled to see a therapist, a psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse practitioner or both, depending on their unique needs.

Who the PACE Clinic Serves

Children with urgent psychiatric needs take different paths to the PACE Clinic.

They may:

• Have been diverted from making an emergency department visit after a call to Kids’ Link RI, a caregiver’s hotline for children in emotional crisis.
• Have been evaluated by the medical team in the Hasbro Children’s emergency department (ED) and found to have psychiatric needs that are urgent but do not require assessment in the ED setting.
• Have been evaluated by Brown University Health’s Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergency Services providers either in the Hasbro Children’s ED or in Bradley Hospital’s Access Center. A provider has found that the child urgently requires a medication evaluation or that they would benefit from visits to the PACE Clinic team while awaiting the start of their care plan (such as home-based services, outpatient care, or a partial hospital program).

A member of the clinic team will guide parents or guardians and their child to the most appropriate type of care and setting in which to receive it.