Mental Health
Children are experiencing a significant and growing mental health crisis. Urgent support is needed to bolster capacity and infrastructure for pediatric mental health.
Focusing on Children's Mental Health
Learn more about the children's mental health crisis and how children's hospitals are addressing the challenges.
CHA's Response to The MAHA Commission's Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment
The Children's Hospital Association encourages HHS to support, engage with, and build upon children’s hospitals’ child health improvement initiatives taking place across the country.
CHA Commends Bipartisan, Bicameral Introduction of EARLY Minds Act to Address Youth Mental Health
The legislation would provide resources for early mental health intervention and prevention for children and adolescents.
2025 Policy Priorities for the 119th Congress
Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) advances child health through innovation in the quality, cost, and delivery of care in children’s hospitals and health systems.
FY25 Behavioral Health Enacted Tracker
CHA has updated its state behavioral health initiative tracker to incorporate information on states’ pediatric behavioral health funding priorities.
CHA and Cardinal Health Commemorate Suicide Prevention Day with Continued Focus on Youth Mental Health
Early findings show almost 320,000 children and youth have been screened, and 15% need mental health support and services.
Pediatric Workforce Shortages Persist in 2024
Children’s hospitals continue to experience shortages across pediatric care fields with an outsized impact on mental and behavioral health specialties.
Governors’ FY 2025 Proposed Funding for Pediatric Behavioral Health Initiatives
CHA has completed a review of governors’ proposed fiscal year (FY) 2025 state budgets to track proposals to fund pediatric behavioral health initiatives.
A Better Tomorrow for Children's Mental Health Depends on Today’s Actions
Addressing the youth mental health crisis has been a long-standing priority for CHA and children's hospitals across the nation.
CHA's FY 2025 Appropriations Priorities
As Congress evaluates funding this fiscal year, we encourage them to prioritize and consider the unique needs of children and the providers that serve them.
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For the Record
View CHA communications to federal policymakers such as statements for the record, RFI responses, regulatory comment letters and more.
