BERT Behavioral Health Psychiatric Professional

The Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) offers crisis behavioral health services and interventions focused on risk for pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department and/or inpatient hospital units. The BERT team does brief interventions and risk assessments in accordance to the WIC 5585/5150 code and standard.

Behavioral health care services at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals emphasize a collaborative family centered approach and interface with all systems of care that serve children birth to 21. We are committed to delivering culturally accountable, evidence based, and trauma informed behavioral health care to the children in our community, including those with the highest risk and need, and those who are marginalized or underserved. Behavioral health care services aim to be the premier behavioral health care institution for children in northern California, with proficiency in clinical care, training, research and evaluation and policy.