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.
2024 Policy Priorities for the 118th 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.
States’ FY 2024 Funding for Pediatric Behavioral Health Initiatives
View our updated FY 2024 Enacted State Budget Pediatric Behavioral Health Tracker with all states’ pediatric behavioral health initiatives included.
The Role of Children's Hospitals
Children’s hospitals are driving initiatives to address the needs of children and advocating for policies that support pediatric patients and the workforce that cares for them.
Mental Health Disorder Codes
Download the codes from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders Classification System (CAMHD-CS).
How Children's Hospitals Are Improving Behavioral and Mental Health Care
Explore how Children’s Hospital Association and our members are improving mental and behavioral health care amid a crisis.
CHA Comments on Mental Health Parity Proposed Rule
CHA submitted comments on the proposed rule and technical release that strengthen the implementation of the Mental Health Parity and Enforcement Act.
Children’s Hospitals Recognize 2nd Anniversary of National Emergency in Children’s Mental Health
Children's Hospital Association (CHA) calls for continued investment in children’s mental health.
Addressing Pediatric Suicide
The latest solutions, resources and data on the current mental health crisis for children's hospitals and health systems.
CHA Urges Congress to Support Children's Hospitals Ability to Provide Care to All Children
Bicameral, bipartisan policies designed to improve child health care need action this fall.
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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.
