Innovative Solutions for the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis

A look at one children’s hospital’s effort to expand recruitment, training and behavioral health care.

A pathway at St. Louis Children’s Hospital decreases workplace violence and length of stay for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Children’s hospitals continue to experience shortages across pediatric care fields with an outsized impact on mental and behavioral health specialties.

After developing an in-house certification program, behavioral health staff turnover fell by half, patient restraints decreased by 44%, and employee engagement skyrocketed.

Program increases early intervention efforts by equipping providers to identify and treat mental health conditions.

How one children’s hospital is addressing the mental and behavioral health workforce shortage by investing in training and educational programs.

How to turn a fragmented effort into a standardized system across more than a dozen primary care clinics.

Children's Nebraska is equipping primary care providers to identify mental illness to allow early intervention — and better outcomes.

The Talk to Tweens program gives parents and teachers free tools to have conversations on mental health with middle school children.

A system of behavioral health centers increases access and intervention for students in more than 280 New York schools.

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital reduced depression and anxiety scores for patients by nearly 65% in a subspecialty clinic.

Three new roles at Children’s Wisconsin increased access to behavioral health care.

Sending handwritten notes to pediatric patients following a suicide attempt can reduce suicide rates.

A five-minute process led to a 67% reduction in the use of restraints for behavioral health patients in the emergency department.

Dayton Children's Hospital decreased its seven-day behavioral health unit readmission rate by nearly 50%.

Training, staffing, and communication are essential to reducing the number of behavioral health patients waiting for inpatient or outpatient care.

One children’s hospital reduced boarding times of behavioral health patients by 36% with changes to processes, technology, and staffing.

A crisis response program reduces emergency department visits by meeting patients in their homes during a crisis.

A school-based hospital program grew from a few employees to 100 and offers care for nearly every aspect of children’s health.

One pediatrician is leading research and program efforts to understand the challenges and benefits of digital media behaviors among families.

A children’s hospital brings behavioral health care into schools to address widespread violence in its community.

Learn how one children's hospital sought to build community solutions to address both mental and behavioral health needs, as well as social determinants of health.

A preventive mental health program enlists community collaboration to execute interventions.

The collaborative is part of Children Hospital Association's ongoing work to address the youth mental health crisis.