BEAM-SD is dedicated to offering ongoing professional development and continuing education for primary care, school-based, and behavioral health professionals across the state of South Dakota. Education and training will be offered through the ECHO® (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) platform. The ECHO® platform will be used to increase knowledge, competence, and confidence in professionals supporting behavioral and mental health care for children and adolescents and their families. ECHO® includes learning and sharing best practices, mentorship through case-based learning, and professional discussions to support knowledge in practice.
Providers and professionals are able to earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits and Continuing Education (CEU) credits by attending these training sessions.
BEAM-SD partners with the American Academy of Pediatrics, The School-Based Health Alliance, and the EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center to increase awareness of Communities of Practice (CoP) specific to pediatric behavioral health needs. This page is continuously updated with these opportunities.Â
BEAM-SD is excited for a new year of ECHO trainings with intensives and deeper dives into pediatric behavioral health!
BEAM-SD ECHO Intensive: Building Capacity in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health
This ECHO program will meet virtually on the second Wednesday of each month from 12:00 pm-1:00 pm (central).
Year 2 of this BEAM-SD ECHO training series will be more of a deep dive into behavioral and mental health topics impacting children and adolescents (0-21) and their families. This series will continue to highlight information and resources for professionals who work with this population.
Outcomes will include an increase in knowledge, skills, and strategies that can be implemented within primary care, medical, education, and community settings.
This Year 2 BEAM-SD ECHO training series will include learning and sharing of best practices, mentorship through case-based learning, and professional discussions to support knowledge in practice.Â
The first quarter will cover Child Development with the first virtual session starting Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Session 1 – Child Development – Developmental Milestone Screenings (01/14/26)
Session 2 – Child Development – Interventions (02/11/2026)
Session 3 – Child Development – Resources & Relationships (03/11/2026)
Upcoming intensives will include:
CME credit The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has reviewed BEAM-SD ECHO, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 01/14/2026 to 01/14/2027.
For additional information and to register, please visit the series iECHO page.
**All sessions will be recorded and can be accessed through the iECHO platform once a participant is registered.**
Application: PMHEC Common Factors ECHO
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Mental Health Education Center (PMHEC) is recruiting pediatricians and other pediatric clinicians to participate in this ECHO program focused on caring for patients with mental health concerns. This 3-month program will focus on the common factors approach within the primary care setting, incorporating relational health principles into practice, and navigating behavioral challenges.
The common factors approach addresses the development of evidence-based skills which promote the patient-provider relationship and influence patient behavior change over a wide range of diagnoses. Practicing this approach helps bond primary care clinicians with patients and their caregivers and can address diverse mental health concerns while awaiting or in complement to disease-specific diagnosis and treatment.
This program will launch on Monday, June 15, 2026 and will meet virtually for 1 hour every other week at 10 am PT/11 am MT/12 pm CT/1 pm ET on the following dates:
After participating in this ECHO, physicians will be able to:
1.    Explain the concepts and applications of the common factors approach to mental health care
2.    Apply common factors techniques to case studies and patient interactions in which patients demonstrate emerging symptoms of mental health concerns
3.    Implement caregiver guidance and coaching on techniques to support positive mental and emotional development and address emerging mental health concerns, using a lens of relational health
For this ECHO, priority will be given to clinicians serving in Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs), but we encourage anyone interested to complete the application below by June 1, 2026.
Thanks to support from the Morgan Stanley Foundation, a limited number of scholarships are available for clinicians working in MUAs. These $1,000 scholarships can help defray the costs of participation in this program. Scholarships will be provided to selected participants after the completion of at least 10 hours of mental health of training and education (this ECHO series and four hours of asynchronous courses. Scholarship recipients will be notified of their selection by June 3, 2026. At this time, we are not able to award a scholarship to an individual more than once, but you may still be considered for participation in the ECHO if you are a previous scholarship recipient.
Space for participation in the ECHO is limited, so submission of an application does not guarantee enrollment. Please contact the team at [email protected] with questions about the ECHO program. For questions related to the scholarship program, please contact [email protected].
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