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Child and Adolescent Mental Health

  • Children's and Adolescents' Mental Health: Like adults, children and adolescents can have mental health disorders that interfere with the way they think, feel, and act. Mental health influences the ways individuals look at themselves, their lives, and others in their lives. Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life.

  • Child, Adolescent and Family Programs: The Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Federal Center for Mental Health Services promotes and ensures that the mental health needs of children and their families are met within the context of community-based systems of care. Systems of care are developed on the premise that the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families can be met within their home, school, and community environments.

  • Caring for Every Child's Mental Health: Systems of Care
    The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health communications campaign is a public information and education program to:
    • Increase public awareness about the importance of protecting and nurturing the mental health of young people.
    • Foster recognition that many children have mental health problems that are real, painful, and sometimes severe.
    • Encourage caregivers to seek early, appropriate treatment and services.
Caring for Every Child's Mental Health
  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
    The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States. This site includes an article on school planning for disasters and the aftermath of September 11, 2001.

  • School Violence Prevention
    The CMHS initiative on school violence focuses on the collective involvement of families, communities, and schools to build resiliency to disruptive behavior disorders.


School Violence Prevention
    • Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk * 15+
      The campaign is part of the CMHS School Violence Prevention Initiative and is designed to provide practical guidance to parents and caregivers about "how to" create time to listen and take time to talk with their children.

Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk
    • Listening Dads Are Champs * 15+
      Children whose fathers are highly involved with them in a positive way do better in school, demonstrate better psychological well-being and lower levels of delinquency, and ultimately attain higher levels of education and economic self-sufficiency.
Dads are Champs
Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free
  • Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
    This Surgeon General's report seeks to focus on action steps that all Americans can take to help address the problem, and continue to build a legacy of health and safety for our young people and the Nation as a whole.

Youth Violence Report
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