"Bridging the Gap Through Innovation: Expanding Access to Adolescent Mental Health Care": A Capitol Hill health policy forum highlighting three innovative programs that are successfully expanding access to mental health care in adolescents.
WHO: The panel will discuss three innovative modalities of providing mental health care to adolescents where little, if any, local mental health care is accessible to Medicaid patients. This access to care is critical to the long-term health of youth, yet fewer that one in four children has ever received treatment and 22% of teens have a severe mental health problem at some point during their adolescence.
The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University is non-profit public health initiative and national policy and resource center devoted to increasing youth access to regular mental health checkups. The TeenScreen National Center is affiliated with the Columbia University Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. More than 1,500 primary care providers and nearly 600 schools and community-based sites in 46 states make mental health screenings available to teens through its TeenScreen Primary Care and TeenScreen Schools and Communities programs. www.teenscreen.org
The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University is non-profit public health initiative and national policy and resource center devoted to increasing youth access to regular mental health checkups. The TeenScreen Na...
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