Mental Wellness

Children's Mental Health Forum

The key to a more secure and stable tomorrow lies with nurturing the minds and emotional needs children have today.






Minding Wellness

Social and emotional health needs attention early, but a great deal of the mental health focus today misses kids.
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Mental Health Supports and Services

Among Texas children with a diagnosed mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or mental health condition that puts them at risk of removal from their home or school, fewer than 1 in 5 receives treatment they need.
Connected Care

Several Texas communities are doing exciting things to involve the families of youth with serious mental illness in their treatment, ensure coordinated care to
meet kids' needs, and make a real difference.
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Children's Mental Health in the News

5.7.13 Editorial: Texas lawmakers, mental illness aid deserves your vote (The Dallas Morning News)

5.3.13 De Paul forum links kids' poverty and mental health (Medill)

4.24.13 Improving mental health starts with early childhood relationships (Medical Xpress)


4.18.13 The Kids Are (Not) Alright
(The New York Times)

4.11.13 To Improve School Climate, Examine Recess (Edutopia)

4.9.13 Obama's proposed budget to seek $235 million for new mental health programs (The Washington Post)

4.9.13 Disparities in Access to Mental Healthcare for Teens (Reclaiming Futures)

4.8.13 Doctors urged to help destigmatize childhood mental illness (American Medical News)

4.3.13 Limited Access to Mental Health Care for Youth, Teens (Psych Central)

4.3.13 Rate of Mental Illness Exceeds Gang Membership in Texas' Juvenile Detention (Think Progress)









 

 

   

 

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