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How Can Early Treatment of Serious Mental Illness Improve Lives and Save Money?

March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief

Early treatment and intervention for mental illness can improve lives and lower related health care costs.

Increasing and Sustaining School Mental Health Services

November 27, 2012 | Program Result

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools conducted research and analysis to explore strategies to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of school mental health services and programs.

A Community Outreach and Education Model for Early Identification of Mental Illness in Young People

April 1, 2012 | Journal Article

PIER offers a new model for community health education that, in contrast to traditional mental health education, strengthens capacity for proactive engagement of key stakeholders in youth mental health.

Helping Traumatized Refugees and Immigrants Start New Lives

November 20, 2011 | Story

Projects in Boston and Minneapolis, Minn., provided special school-connected mental health services to help refugees and immigrants recover from trauma under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Needed Adolescent Mental Health Care

February 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Minority adolescents use mental health services less frequently than White adolescents. The findings presented here suggest that social attitudes toward depression might prevent minority children from seeking treatment research occurred during 2008 in a Texas high school mental health clinic.

The Role of Mental Health Factors, Behavioral Factors, and Past Experience in the Prediction of Rapid Repeat Pregnancy in Adolescence

January 28, 2009 | Journal Article

Rapid repeat pregnancies (RRPs) in adolescents are poorly understood, even though they are some of the pregnancies at highest risk for poor outcomes. This study showed that aggression was associated with higher risk of an RRP, but life history factors such as abuse and depression were not.

Business Planning to Replicate In SHAPE, a Program Promoting Health for People with Mental Illness

June 25, 2009 | Program Result

Consultants from Comprehensive Health Education Foundation helped Monadnock Family Services in Keene, N.H., create a strategic business plan to replicate its In SHAPE program.

Changing Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services in Franklin County, Ohio

November 9, 2009 | Story

The Problem: Placing Children in Out-of-County Residential Facilities

Youth at Risk: Pittsburgh Association Expands Mental Health Services in Eight Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

April 20, 2009 | Program Result

The Community Empowerment Association, a social services organization in Pittsburgh, expanded its capacity to provide community-based services to youth with mental, emotional and behavioral health challenges in eight disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Early Detection and Intervention for the Prevention of Psychosis

September 1, 2008 | Evaluation

This evaluation is of a program designed to replicate the Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program, which uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.

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