The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances Program
Through its strategic initiatives, SAMHSA continues to promote awareness and understanding of behavioral health as part of the mission to reduce the impact of mental illness and substance use disorder in America’s communities. The findings of this report highlight the need for administrative changes in the Children's Mental Health Initiative program, particularly as SAMHSA seeks to promote the expansion and widescale adoption of the program. Some of the changes to be considered include the following:
Build on lessons learned and create policies and infrastructures that promote nationwide cross-agency collaboration among child-serving systems to bring the program fully to scale.
Fund programs that build a workforce capable of effectively implementing age- and culturally appropriate evidence-based practices, including a workforce that includes family and youth peer support providers.
Examine more systematic strategies to coordinate funding for prevention efforts across federal and state agencies through the development of meaningful partnerships.
Develop and implement a services research demonstration based on CMHI data and the NIMH funded North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS) to examine the extent to which evidence based early interventions for young people at Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis can be scaled up to mitigate or delay the progression of mental illness, reduce disability, and/or maximize recovery.
Author:
Sustance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Resource Date:
2016
Resource Type:
Topics:
Health / Children's Health, Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders, Community / Social Environment
Resource Address:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
5600 Fishers Ln
Rockville, MD 20857
5600 Fishers Ln
Rockville, MD 20857