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How have states leveraged different policy choices to support the integration of social-emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services? We look at all 50 states.

This brief reports the results of a survey on states efforts to maximize the impact current policies to provide effective child development and prevention services to young children, especially those at risk of social and emotional delays, and makes recommendations for how to better support children at risk for social and emotional delays going forward.

Mental health and social and emotional wellbeing are key components of any strategy to promote adolescents’ healthy development. This fact sheet presents basic facts about adolescent mental health, outlines barriers to ensuring adolescents are mentally healthy, and makes recommendations for eliminating these barriers going forward.

Other Publications

• Unclaimed Children Revisited
  The Status of Children's Mental Health Policy in the United States
  Report, November 2008
• Towards Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth and their Families
  Financing that Supports Knowledge
  Report, February 2008
• Reducing Maternal Depression and Its Impact on Young Children
  Toward a Responsive Early Childhood Policy Framework
  Brief, January 2008
• Financing Mental Health for Children, Youth and their Families
  Testimony, October 2007
• Child and Youth Emergency Mental Health Care
  A National Problem
  Brief, July 2007
• Facts About Trauma for Policymakers
  Children's Mental Health
  Fact Sheet, July 2007
• Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth, and Families Who Experience Trauma
  Report, July 2007
• Children’s Mental Health
  Facts for Policymakers
  Fact Sheet, November 2006
• Challenges and Opportunities in Children’s Mental Health
  A View from Families and Youth
  Report, July 2006
• Helping the Most Vulnerable Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families
  Report, January 2006
• Spending Smarter
  A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness
  Report, November 2005
• Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children and Families
  A Community Guide
  Report, November 2005
• Depression, Substance Abuse, and Domestic Violence
  Little is Known About Co-Occurrence and Combined Effects on Low-Income Families
  Brief, June 2004
• Making Dollars Follow Sense
  Financing Early Childhood Mental Health Services to Promote Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children
  Report, August 2002
• Ready to Enter
  What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
  Report, July 2002
• Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children
  An Action Guide for Policymakers
  Report, January 2002
• Improving the Odds for the Healthy Development of Young Children in Foster Care
  Brief, January 2002
• Depression and Low-Income Women
  Challenges for TANF and Welfare-to-Work Policies and Programs
  Report, April 2001
• Promoting Resilience
  Helping Young Children and Parents Affected by Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Depression in the Context of Welfare Reform
  Brief, February 2000