National Program
A model that improves the health and well-being of adolescents by using evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
November 20, 2011
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Story
Projects in Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles developed culturally competent school-connected mental health services for immigrants and refugees under Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth.
November 21, 2011
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Program Result
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states by developing model mental health programs.
December 1, 2009
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Journal Article
This article examines post-disaster counseling services in schools following Hurricane Katrina. The researchers conducted focus groups to identify counseling services offered and barriers to care in schools.
April 26, 2010
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Program Result
Some 304 school health nurses and 199 other school health personnel, social workers and community partners received training using the "Trauma to Triumph" curriculum developed by Louisiana State University School of Nursing.
January 7, 2009
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Video/Story
How the Portland Identification and Early Referral program intervenes to prevent severe mental illness in teens and young adults.
May 4, 2009
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Evaluation
This evaluation aims to document impacts associated with school-connected interventions with an emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.
February 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Carter Center in Atlanta held its Fourteenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, "Promoting Positive and Healthy Behaviors in Children," on November 18–19, 1998, in Atlanta, Ga.
June 1, 2001
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Program Result
Starting in January 1996, the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Albany, N.Y. developed a method — through the education, social services, juvenile justice, and mental health systems — to purchase and manage individualized services for seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents to divert them from unnecessary placements and hospitalizations.
July 1, 2001
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Program Result
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine held a one-day conference on children's mental health care issues and produced a monograph including a literature review, conference proceedings and recommendations.