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Every Child's Mental Health Matters

The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health communications campaign is a national public information and education campaign 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; and
  • encourage caregivers to seek early, appropriate treatment and services.

The campaign helps families, educators, health care providers, and young people recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health concerns and to seek appropriate services. It also strives to reduce the stigma associated with mental health problems.

Children's Mental Health Facts
Click here to read about:
  • ADHD
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Conduct Disorder
  • Major Depression
 
May 7th, 2009 is National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day (Awareness Day) is a day for everyone to promote positive youth development, resilience, recovery, and the transformation of mental health services delivery for children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families. Awareness Day raises awareness of effective programs for children's mental health needs; demonstrates how children's mental health initiatives promote positive youth development, recovery, and resilience; and shows how children with mental health needs thrive in their communities.

The theme for this year's national event is Thriving in the Community, with a special emphasis on how high school youth who receive the services they need are more likely to have positive outcomes, such as better grades, and less likely to have negative outcomes, such as involvement with the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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Last Update: 5/7/2009