ADDRESS YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH BEFORE CRISIS ERUPTS We couldn’t say it better than State Rep. and emergency physician, Arvind Venkat, who has a unique perspective on both mental health and what lawmakers can do about it. Here is his published commentary that ran...
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Helping Kids Process the Rhetoric and Realities – Jul 26, 2024
IMPORTANT LESSONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN SEASON The race for the White House is especially chaotic this year and older children and teenagers are not immune to the developments unfolding on the national stage. What lessons can we teach them to help process what...
No Break for Mental Health Support – May 24, 2024
No Break for Mental Health Support – May 24, 2024
MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS DON'T TAKE VACATIONS I’m overwhelmed…I’m worried…I’m afraid…I’m alone. These heartbreaking words are uttered far too often by teenagers and younger children these days and we heard them a lot at a Children First mental health community...
REPORT: State Examples for Optimizing Medicaid – March 2024
In March 2024, Children First published a policy brief entitled “Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in Pennsylvania.” In that brief, five specific reforms to optimize Medicaid as a sustainable funding source to improve child and adolescent...
REPORT: State Examples for Optimizing Medicaid – March 2024
Let’s Get Mental Health Help to our Youth! – Mar 22, 2024
Let’s Get Mental Health Help to our Youth! – Mar 22, 2024
Suicide Rates Among U.S. Adolescents Doubled in 10 Years Suicide rates among U.S. adolescents has doubled in 10 years. Half of kids who take their own lives have never had access to any mental health services before making that terminal decision. These two...
REPORT: Optimizing Medicaid to Improve Child and Youth Mental Health in PA – March 2024
Children are enduring unprecedented rates of anxiety and depression. In Pennsylvania, 50% of children who died by suicide in 2021 never had a prior mental health diagnosis. The social, emotional, and developmental health needs of our children are not being met. The...